Resources on Carol Penner

Worship, Jesus, Creation, Leading Worship

Holy Week

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Benediction or Blessing

This worship resource by Carol Penner offers a benediction for Holy Week encouraging us to keep our eyes on Jesus as He will show us where we need to go.

Jesus

Jesus Serves Breakfast

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

This poem by Carol Penner imagines the events of John 21:1-14, where the resurrected Jesus encounters his disciples and serves them a meal on the shore.

John 21:1-14

Jesus, Resurrection, Meal, Incarnation

Good Friday Service: A Funeral for Jesus

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Service Outline or Song Suggestions and 5 more types

Carol Penner offers as a Good Friday service an imagined funeral service for Jesus, with roles for a pastor/leader and speaking parts for Peter and Mary Magdalene who give tributes.

Funeral, Good Friday, Family, Love

Coming to the City Nearest You

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner's poem imagines the events of Jesus' journey to the cross (Matthew 21:6-14, 26:26-29, 36-46; Mark 15:16; John 2:1-12, 4:1-45, 5:2-9, 13:1-15) as happening in our own contexts, in "the city nearest you."

Holy Week, Jesus, Kingly Office Of Christ, Subversive Activities

Good Friday Heartbreak

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Benediction or Blessing

This worship resource by Carol Penner offers a benediction for Good Friday. It reflects on the grief that is experienced at the cross and in our lives and invites God's presence to be with us.

Good Friday, Grief, Jesus, Waiting

Scriptural Sweep: And God Said! A Reader's Theatre

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Scripture Drama or Paraphrase

Carol Penner offers a poem covering the sweep of scriptural teaching, which can be divided into a script for a reader's theater. "Let those who have ears to hear, hear!"

Scripture, Creation, Sin, Jesus

Peaceful call to worship

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner offers a call to worship on the subject of peace. "Jesus calls us from far and near to hear a message of peace" (Ephesians 2:17).

Ephesians 2:17

Grace, Worship, Peace, Jesus

Advent Peace Prayer for Marriages

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner offers an Advent prayer for married couples, thanking God for loving, harmonious partnerships, and praying for "couples that have lost their way."

Advent, Love, Community, Conflict

Mother's Day

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

This call to worship for Mother's day is based on Matthew 11:28-30, extending Jesus' invitation to all for whom Mother's day holds meaning, both good and bad.

Matthew 11:28-30

Mother's Day, Gentleness, Rest, Calling

Light: A Christmas Eve Reader's Theatre

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Scripture Drama or Paraphrase

Carol Penner offers a reader's theater on the theme of Christ coming to bring light into the darkness. The text can be divided into parts as one sees fit.

Christmas, Jesus, Darkness, Light

Are Any Among Us...

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner offers a call to worship based on James 5:13-16. The suffering or sick will call on God, the cheerful will praise God, and those who have sinned will confess to one another.

James 5:13-16

Prayer, Sin, Suffering, Worship

Two roads to Emmaus

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Scripture Drama or Paraphrase

Carol Penner gives two dramatic adaptations of Jesus' encounter with disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35): the canonical version, and an alternative script in which the disciples are resistant to Jesus.

Luke 24:13-35

Jesus, Disciple, Emmaus, Resurrection

Good Friday Darkness Call to Worship

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner offers a call to worship for Good Friday. "Help us, today, to stay with Jesus, to watch as he is handed over and condemned."

Easter, Good Friday, Worship, Jesus

Benediction: Pitched, Peeled and Poised

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Benediction or Blessing

Carol Penner offers a benediction encouraging congregants to go forth with ears pitched to God's voice, eyes peeled for Jesus' face, and soul poised to receive God's spirit.

The Inn Crowd: A Poem about Jesus

Peace, Jesus, God, Voice

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner's poem reflects on how Jesus was not accepted by those who were politically powerful, but he went on to demonstrate his real power.

Jesus, Transfiguration, Cross, Resurrection

A Psalm for George Floyd

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner offers an original psalm in memory of George Floyd and others subjected to racist murder, oppression, and economic injustice. "God the Almighty longs for justice and confronts the sin of white supremacy."

Racism, God, Oppression, Murder

Bread of Life Communion Service

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Communion Liturgy or Prayer

This worship resource put together by Carol Penner features a communion service planned around the theme of Jesus "the bread of life."

Jesus, Lord’s Supper, Bread, Eucharist

Darkness on Christmas Eve Poem

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

A beautiful poem written by Carol Penner about the darkness on Christmas Eve. In the darkness of the night, of the stable, of the world, Jesus is born.

Birth, Christmas, Jesus, Darkness

Thanksgiving grace

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

"We are people with full hearts: we feel blessed, we are blessed, and on this thanksgiving day we say thank you with all our hearts." Carol Penner offers a prayer of thanks before a meal.