Resources on Carol Penner

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, Communion, Lord’s Supper, Blessing

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, Communion, Thanksgiving

Living Water

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner's congregational prayer thanks God for water and uses other symbolic references to water, such as "thirst for righteousness and justice" and confession of "living parched lives."

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Water, Thirst, Beauty, Rain

Gentle Shepherd

Carol Penner | Together in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner offers a congregational prayer, with multiple allusions to the shepherd imagery of Psalm 23. "You anoint us with oil, you gift us with grace, providing unexpected blessings over and over."

Psalm 23

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Shepherd, Grace, Beauty, Fear

Amazing Congregational Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

Carol Penner offers a prayer of thanksgiving to God for an amazing world of beauty, amazing families, an amazing congregation, and "the amazing way you work in our world."

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Congregation, Diversity, World, Community

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

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

Thanksgiving Responsive Communion Service

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Communion Liturgy or Prayer

Carol Penner offers a responsive service of communion emphasizing thanksgiving for God's invitation, remembering the meaning of the bread and the cup, and unity with believers everywhere.

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Thanksgiving, Lord’s Supper, Communion, Humility

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, Gospel, Thanksgiving

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

Prayer

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

Congregational Prayer for the Little Things

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

Carol Penner offers a prayer thanking God for "little things" - everyday pleasures, peaceful days, our Savior, caring relationships, hospitality, community, etc.

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Prayer, Trust, Thanksgiving, Grace

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

Confession on Thanksgiving

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer of Confession

Carol Penner offers a prayer of confession for Thanksgiving, confessing attitudes that can prevent us from being thankful, or being thankful enough. "For what we have received, Lord, make us truly thankful."

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Confession, Thanksgiving, Thankfulness, Prayer

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

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

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

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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Blessing, Thanksgiving, Glory, Discipleship

Musical Congregational Prayer

Carol Penner | Leading in Worship

Prayer

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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Prayer, Music, Wisdom, Grief

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