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Overthrown: God’s Power to Change

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

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, Lord's Supper, Thanksgiving

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, Judas Iscariot, Repentance, Friendship

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 (spiritual), Enemy, Divisions

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

Praying Through A Divorce

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner's prayer commits to God a couple whose marriage is broken. "We urgently want to end this bleeding, for which there is no quick remedy."

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Divorce, Love, Relationship, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

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, 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.

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Love, Mercy, Peace (spiritual)

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

Suicide: Prayers from Those Left Behind

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner offers five prayers written from the perspective of people who are dealing with the suicide of a loved one. "You carry our loved one, and each of us, now and forever."

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Hope, Love, Peace (spiritual), Pain

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

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."

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Beauty, Community, Love, Strength

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

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, Laughter, Death

A prayer for when I am self-destructive

Francis of Assisi | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner offers a prayer from the perspective of a person prone to self-destructive behavior, with a strong allusion to the peace prayer of Francis of Assisi.

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Love, Peace (spiritual), Acceptance, Gratitude

Psalm for a Women's Shelter

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Poetry

Carol Penner offers a psalm from the perspective of one who has come to a women's shelter, with many allusions to canonical Psalms.

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Hope, Love, Violence, Care

Justice Rolling Offering Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Offering Liturgy or Prayer

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

Amos 5:24

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Justice, Gift, Water, Love

The Greatest of These: Liturgical Resources

Kwasi Kena | Discipleship Ministries

Prayer of Confession, Opening Prayer, Prayer of Intercession

These prayers are useful for a service focussed on the love chapter of 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. Provides clickable links to additional resources, including planning and preaching notes, hymn suggestions, youth lessons, and graphics.

1 Corinthians 13

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Gifts From God, Giving, Love

Litany for Advent Candle Lighting

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

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.

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Hope, Peace (spiritual), Light, Savior

Heavyhearted Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner offers a prayer on behalf of those who are particularly weighed down by a burden. "You are the God of the heavyhearted and the lighthearted, keep me near your heart this day."

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Heart, Burden, God, Surrender