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Overthrown: God’s Power to Change
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Scripture Meditation or Sermon
Carol Penner's sermon on Jonah 3 says that the repentance of Nineveh from Jonah's preaching gives hope for repentance and change, not only in individuals but at the organizational level.
Jonah 3
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Change, Hope, Repentance, Love
Come to the Table
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Communion Liturgy or Prayer
Carol Penner offers liturgy for a communion service. "Come Holy Spirit, feed us with your love that we may be filled with power to love God with all our hearts and souls and minds."
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Love, Bread, Thanksgiving, Covenant
No Taking Sides
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Offering Liturgy or Prayer
Carol Penner offers a congregational prayer that reflects on the fact that God is both on our side, as well as, on the side of our "enemies." May this God-of-no-sides give peace to all.
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Love, Peace, Enemies, Divisions
Judas the Friend of Jesus
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Poetry
Carol Penner's poem gives a sympathetic perspective on Jesus' disciple Judas. "It’s easy to hate Judas. But joined together in repentance we are friends forever with Judas through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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Money, John, Matthew, Repentance
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.
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Funeral, Good Friday, Family, Love
Love Story Reader's Theatre
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Scripture Drama or Paraphrase
Carol Penner's text for a reader's theater reflects on many aspects of love, with numerous quotations and allusions from scripture and other sources.
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Longing, Love, Creation, Parenting
Prayer - For Mother's Day
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner writes a prayer for Mother's Day.
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Mother's Day, Love, Prayer, Mother
St Patrick’s Remix Congregational Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers an updated "remix" of the Breastplate or Lorica attributed to St. Patrick. "We bind to ourselves the love of Christ that will not let us go, and the strength to share that love."
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Power, Christ, Love, Violence
Labor Day
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers a congregational prayer for Labor Day, thanking God for work and for rest, and confessing "the times we abuse the gift of work."
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Work, Sabbath, Rest, Technology
Congregational prayer in advent darkness
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner's Advent prayer gives thanks for the beauty of winter, asks forgiveness for "the times where we have chosen darkness," and seeks comfort for those who are suffering.
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Advent, Prayer, Peace, Darkness
On Mother's Day
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers a prayer for Mother's Day, including thanks "for all who mother us, biological or adoptive mothers, caregivers, relatives and friends."
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Mother's Day, Forgiveness, Grace, Love
Mercy and Love Responsive Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner focuses on mercy and love in this responsive prayer. Mercy for the wrongs we have done, and love to sustain us and give us peace.
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Love, Prayer, Mercy, Peace
God Our Champion
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Poetry
Carol Penner's poem reflects on God who is our "champion," a model for parents who love their children and a comfort for children whose parents neglect them. It is appropriate for Mother's Day or Father's Day.
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Father's Day, Mother's Day, Love, God's Love
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."
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Advent, Love, Community, Conflict
Over and Over
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Offering Liturgy or Prayer
Carol Penner offers words to be said before and after the offering. Offering, writes Penner, is love made visible, offered to a God whose generosity knows no end.
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Gratitude, Love, Leading Worship, Offering
Pentecost Congregational Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers a congregational prayer for Pentecost, asking for the Holy Spirit to "enliven us to be ambassadors of life divine."
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Love, Holy Spirit, Grace, Rejoicing
Kingdom of Kindness
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Call to Worship
This worship resource by Carol Penner offers a call to worship expressing that we have come to worship for a glimpse of God's kingdom of kindness, a world where love rules over all and enemies embrace....
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Love, Worship, Kindness, Longing
Biblical Congregational Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner's prayer gives thanks for the Bible and for the various people whose efforts have made the Bible available today, and prays "for people of all faiths who read each other’s holy books."
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Love, Scripture, Bible, Freedom
River of Love
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Offering Liturgy or Prayer
This offering prayer by Carol Penner uses the image of a river to describe God's abundant grace and gifts given to us in love that we are, in turn, called to "release" out into the world.
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Love, Offering, Gift, Abundance
Last Christmas
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers a prayer from the perspective of those who understand that the coming Christmas will be their last, "so they enter this season with different eyes."
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Christmas, Love, Death, Fear
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