Resources on Carol Penner

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."

Love, Bread, Communion, Thanksgiving

No Taking Sides

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

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.

Love, Peace, Enemies, Divisions

Prayer - For Mother's Day

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Carol Penner writes a prayer for Mother's Day.

Mother's Day, Love, Prayer, Mother

Mercy and Love Responsive Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Confession

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.

Good Friday Service: A Funeral for Jesus

Love, Mercy, Peace

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

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."

Money, John, Matthew, Judas

Justice Rolling Offering Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner presents an offering prayer to the God who wants "justice rolling down like water" (Amos 5:24).

Amos 5:24

Justice, Gift, Water, Love

On Mother's Day

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Carol Penner offers a prayer for Mother's Day, including thanks "for all who mother us, biological or adoptive mothers, caregivers, relatives and friends."

Mother's Day, Forgiveness, Grace, Love

Open Us Congregational Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayers of the People

Carol Penner offers a prayer for God to "make us into a community that is open, cratered by the splendor of your creation and filled to the brink with thankfulness."

Beauty, Community, Love, Strength

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.

Father's Day, Mother's Day, Love, God's 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.

Longing, Love, Creation, Parenting

Over and Over

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

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.

Gratitude, Love, Leading Worship, Offering

Prayer for Teachers

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Intercession

Carol Penner presents this prayer for teachers to receive compassion, wisdom, love, and strength from the Lord as they go into every lesson as they teach their students.

Wisdom, Love, Compassion, Teachers

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....

Love, Worship, Kindness, Longing

Advent Peace Prayer for Marriages

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

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

River of Love

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

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.

Love, Offering, Gift, Abundance

Way of Peace Christmas Benediction

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Benediction or Blessing

Carol Penner offers a Christmas benediction quoting Zechariah's prophecy (Luke 1:78-79). "We go into this season knowing that God will guide our feet into the way of peace."

Death, Christmas, Mercy, Light

Litany for Advent Candle Lighting

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Carol Penner offers a litany (for two readers) for the lighting of a candle on each of the four Sundays of Advent, and for the Christ candle on Christmas Eve.

Hope, Peace, Light, Saviour (savior)

Last Christmas

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

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."