Crafting Prayers for Public Worship

The Art of Intercession

Samuel Wells (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2013
Canterbury Press Norwich (Verlag)
978-1-84825-460-2 (ISBN)

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An inspirational and practical guide for all who help to lead the intercessions in regular worship or offer prayers on specific occasions. It aims to empower and equip lay people and clergy alike to offer heartfelt, informed, thoughtful and appropriate prayers on behalf of the people of God for God’s world.

This is an inspirational and practical guide for all who help to lead the intercessions in regular worship or to offer prayers in public worship on specific occasions. It aims to empower and equip lay people and clergy alike to offer heartfelt, informed, thoughtful and appropriate prayers on behalf of the people of God for God’s world.

Crafting Prayers for Public Worship:
•considers what public prayer is and offers practical guidelines for avoiding common pitfalls.
•explores prayer as an integral part of worship and the kinds of speech we need (and don’t need) to address God.
•reflects on the basic structures and shape of the prayers we create, staying rooted in scripture, the answers we can expect with confidence, becoming part of the answer ouselves, and other practicalities
•offers a wide range of templates and examples.

SAMUEL WELLS is Vicar of St Martin in the Fields, London, and the author of many acclaimed books including What Anglicans Believe, Learning to Dream Again, God’s Companions (shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize). Previously he was Dean of Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84825-460-1 / 1848254601
ISBN-13	978-1-84825-460-2 / 9781848254602
Zustand	Neuware