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Communion Service - With Thanksgiving

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Carol Penner offers a communion service with thanksgiving. "Send your Spirit upon us so that we know that all who eat and drink in this room and around the world are one body, one holy people."

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Thanksgiving, Lord's Supper, Body And Blood Of Christ, Salvation

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

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

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

Thanksgiving

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Prayers of the People

Carol Penner offers a congregational prayer for Thanksgiving, emphasizing not a list of things to be thankful for, but rather thanksgiving as a transformation of the heart.

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Thanksgiving, Image Of God, Freedom, Transformation

Praying at the New Year

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner's prayer for a new year offers thanks "in advance for the gifts you will give us that we don’t really want."

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Gift, New Year, Time, Memory

Giver of Light

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Words of Praise

Carol Penner offers a word of praise reflecting on God's gift of light. "You give us light, which is bright and serviceable and pure. We cannot live without light."

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Praise, Light, Thanksgiving

Musical Congregational Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayers of the People

Carol Penner's prayer thanks God for the beauty of so many sounds, prays for those who are sad or oppressed, and honors God as the Great Composer.

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Music, Laughter, Freedom, Thanksgiving

True Allegiance

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Offering Liturgy or Prayer

Carol Penner's offertory prayer affirms our giving as "a public sign of our true allegiance to you: we proclaim you ruler of our lives."

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Family, Offering, Rulers, Money

Design Conscious

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner's prayer thanks God for clothing and asks God to "Show us the connections between what we wear and what we believe, who we are and who we affect."

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Wisdom, Compassion, Thanksgiving, Belief

Great Provider

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Offering Liturgy or Prayer

Carol Penner presents an offertory prayer, recognizing God as the Great Provider. "Use these offerings in your kingdom work, as you provide good news, healing and hope to all people."

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Work, Offering, Thanksgiving, Money

Thanksgiving revolution

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

Carol Penner offers a prayer for Thanksgiving, suggesting that thankfulness is not just about listing things we are thankful for, but means a radical transformation of our heart.

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Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Image Of God, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ

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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Thanksgiving, God's Provision

May Day Congregational Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayers of the People

Carol Penner offers a May Day prayer. It celebrates the return of spring, expressing gratitude for its gifts, while interceding for those who grieve or suffer.

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Grief, Spring, Surprise, Thanksgiving

Lift Up Your Hearts

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Call to Worship

This worship resource by Carol Penner offers a call to worship inviting us to lift up our hearts to God in thanks and praise and to pass the peace of Christ to one another.

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Thanksgiving, Praise

Humble Thanks

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

A prayer of "humble thanks to a God who has food for life" by Carol Penner.

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Food, Humility, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Call to Worship

This call to worship by Carol Penner voices the desire that everything be for God's glory. Gathering in worship, this "holy day of thanksgiving," we collectively declare it so.

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Thanksgiving, Glory, Discipleship, God's Presence

Thanksgiving at Christmas

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

A prayer of thanksgiving at Christmas written by Carol Penner. It gives thanks to God for the gift of a child of hope in a dark season.

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Christmas, Hope, Thanksgiving, Darkness

We Join Our Voices

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Call to Worship

This worship resource by Carol Penner offers a call to worship inviting us to join our voices together with the great cloud of witnesses in praise and thanksgiving to our Triune God.

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Praise, Thanksgiving

A New Year's Prayer of Thanks

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

This worship resource by Carol Penner features a New Year's prayer of thanksgiving looking back on the past year from big to small.

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New Year, Gratitude, Thanksgiving