Prayers to Share, Year B: Responsive Prayers for Each Sunday of the Church Year [Paperback]

David Sparks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Based on the scripture readings from the Revised Common Lectionary, Prayers To Share offers church leaders an entire year's worth of responsive prayers for use in worship, and other church group settings. This first volume is for year B. Includes Call to Worship, Opening Prayer, Prayer of Confession, Words of Assurance, Offertory Prayer and Commissioning Prayer for each Sunday of the church year, including all the propers. A thematic index allows leaders to pick prayers by subject, for use in a variety church settings.

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About the Author

Educated theologically, both in the United Kingdom and in North America, (BA, M Div., STM) David has served for 30 years with the United Church of Canada, mostly in Thunder Bay Ontario, and was for 5 years a minister in the United Reformed Church of England and Wales. For the best part of that time he has been writing prayers and hymns for public worship. David has led workshops on various aspects of public prayer, and has been a workshop leader at Worship Matters, the national gathering of worship leaders. David has retired, with wife Kathy, to Summerland British Columbia, and is currently serving the United Church congregation of Okanagan Falls near Penticton. He has three children; John, who lives in London England, Mary in Vancouver, and Carol who lives and works in the Sudan.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: WoodLake (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551454793
• ISBN-13: 978-1551454795
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #808,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A HANDY LITURGICAL AID, November 7, 2002

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Allan M. Savage (Thunder Bay, Ontario) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prayers to Share, Year B: Responsive Prayers for Each Sunday of the Church Year (Paperback)

These are truly wholesome and appropriate "responsive" prayers that engage the pray-ers. This liturgical aid does not aim to persuade, convince, or instruct but rather presupposes a degree of faith commitment on the part of the congregation. These prayers help to name and give voice to the congregation's pre-existing convictions arising out of the Christian experience. The prayers, composed with an eye to the contemporary religious climate, are truly "about us" and our beliefs as a worshipping body of Christ's faithful. Sparks has included a thematic index along with the Hebrew and New Testament indexes. This makes for easy reference to the Church's year and its biblically-centred liturgical life. His "Confession Prayers" remind me of the options for an "examination of conscience" that appear in the various penitential services in my own R.C. tradition. Sparks writes concerning his Confession Prayers: "I have tended not to use the traditional 'miserable offender' approach but to offer affirmations, reminders, encouragement, and questions instead." To my mind, this is handy liturgical resource that will bear fruit in a parish, congregation, and civil institution where worship services are conducted.

4.0 out of 5 stars A HANDY LITURGICAL AID, November 7, 2002

By 

Allan M. Savage (Thunder Bay, Ontario) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Prayers to Share, Year B: Responsive Prayers for Each Sunday of the Church Year (Paperback)

These are truly wholesome and appropriate "responsive" prayers that engage the pray-ers. This liturgical aid does not aim to persuade, convince, or instruct but rather presupposes a degree of faith commitment on the part of the congregation. These prayers help to name and give voice to the congregation's pre-existing convictions arising out of the Christian experience. The prayers, composed with an eye to the contemporary religious climate, are truly "about us" and our beliefs as a worshipping body of Christ's faithful. Sparks has included a thematic index along with the Hebrew and New Testament indexes. This makes for easy reference to the Church's year and its biblically-centred liturgical life. His "Confession Prayers" remind me of the options for an "examination of conscience" that appear in the various penitential services in my own R.C. tradition. Sparks writes concerning his Confession Prayers: "I have tended not to use the traditional 'miserable offender' approach but to offer affirmations, reminders, encouragement, and questions instead." To my mind, this is handy liturgical resource that will bear fruit in a parish, congregation, and civil institution where worship services are conducted.