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The Year I Put God on the Christmas List
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Poetry
Carol Penner's poem puts "God on the Christmas list," wondering what God would like for Christmas. What could make God say, "This is just what I've always wanted!"?
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Christmas, Gift, God's Omnipotence, Present
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
Our Great Caregiver
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner writes a prayer for those who are caregivers, such as parents, who watch, rear, and raise up children.
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Prayer, Care, Children, Father
Prayer for Those Seeking Shelter
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers a prayer for homeless people. "As your children, can we meet and hear stories? Instead of only a handout, can we sit together."
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Prayer, Homelessness, Marginalization, Hope
An Advent Congregational Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
This worship resource by Carol Penner features a congregational prayer centering on the theme of Advent. The prayer remembers those who suffer in this season which is joyful for so many.
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Christmas, Advent, Prayer, Emmanuel
Canada Day, a Prayer
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner offers a congregational prayer for Canada Day, thanking God for the country's beautiful nature, its rich history, and freedoms, while asking for God's blessing and keeping.
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Prayer, Canada, Gratitude, Creation
Darkness and Light
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner presents a responsive prayer for Epiphany with the refrain, "O God, you are with us in darkness and in light." God's presence sustains us and gives us confidence.
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Epiphany, Prayer, God's Presence, Darkness
Joyful Easter Prayer
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner writes an Easter prayer to be thankful, to be joyful and in praise for the resurrection.
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Easter, Prayer, Worship
Responsive Winter Solstice Prayer (for the northern hemisphere)
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner shares a responsive Winter Solstice prayer with the refrain, “Lord we are longing for light!” There are spaces to include needs and phrases of thanksgiving for acts of kindness and for Jesus Christ.
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Prayer, Darkness, Light, Responsive Religious Service
Great Giver
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Offering Liturgy or Prayer
Carol Penner's offering prayer recognizes that "we worship a generous God whose son Jesus was both a gift and great giver."
Psalm 19:14
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Prayer, Offering, Thankfulness, Generosity
Prayers of the People on Christmas
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer of Intercession
Carol Penner's Christmas prayer celebrates Jesus' incarnation and remembers those who are homeless, the sick, and our relationship with the earth.
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Christmas, Joy, Prayer, Salvation
Cheerful Hearts
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Offering Liturgy or Prayer
Carol Penner offers an offering prayer that thanks God for providing for us so abundantly that we are able to give to others cheerfully.
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Blessing, Prayer, Offering, Giving
Prayer for the Homeless in Our City
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner's prayer for homeless people asks for kindness, safety, basic necessities, good political decisions, and guidance by God's Spirit for God's people.
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Prayer, Homelessness, Choice, Politics
Thanksgiving
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving prayer by Carol Penner is prayed before the table, at communion or otherwise, reflecting on the counter-cultural act of giving thanks.
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Blessing, Grace, Prayer, Thanksgiving
Living with a Pandemic Congregational Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving, Prayer of Lament
Carol Penner offers a prayer of lament for the burdens, losses, and dangers of a pandemic, and of thanksgiving for joy and beauty in the midst of suffering.
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Lament, Prayer, Church, Unity
God of Gardens
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
This poetic prayer by Carol Penner captures faith as a garden—shockingly wild, undomesticated, and mysterious—tended to by a gardener who delights in this garden of life.
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Faith, Prayer, Work, Faithfulness
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
Rising Son
Carol Penner | Together in Worship
Prayer
This congregational prayer by Carol Penner focuses on the resurrection of Jesus—the light that banishes darkness—asking to be empowered to share the good news and interceding for those who are suffering.
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Prayer, Intercession, Light, Victory
Good News Congregational Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner's prayer thanks God for the good news proclaimed throughout nature, and the good news heard in personal and world affairs. Prayer is offered for those waiting for good news.
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Hope, Longing, Prayer, Power
Hope against Hope Advent Prayer
Carol Penner | Leading in Worship
Prayer
Carol Penner shares an Advent prayer for hope, naming reports of bad news, reminding us of Mary and Joseph who held on to hope, and asking for eyes and ears to see and hear God’s arriving.
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Advent, Hope, Longing, Prayer
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