[Download] "Just in Time! Pastoral Prayers in Public Places" by F. Belton Joyner Jr. ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Just in Time! Pastoral Prayers in Public Places
- Author : F. Belton Joyner Jr.
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 416 KB
Description
Ready-to-use prayers for community and civic occasions. The Just In Time! series
offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable
price.Part of a pastor's role in the community is to pray publicly. The pastor is
often the official "pray-er" at all kinds of community events--the high school
football game, the opening of the new grocery store, the county school board
meeting, kindergarten graduation--to name a few. But the pastor must also pray
knowing that there are believers (of many persuasions) and non-believers present.
In addition to the prayers in this book, there are brief setting descriptions
and Scripture references. These prayers can be used with little or no adaptation.
Sample prayers: Graduation: "O God, Author of all wisdom, Giver of all truth, Seeker
of all servants, we thank You for the times of life that mark Your continuing
goodness. We are grateful for these believers, young in their faith and early in
their journey, who have been open to study and learning and who now gain graduation
toward tomorrows which will take them in many direction, but never from Your
presence." Suicide: "O God, if we knew why, we would name it before You! Hear our
plea for help; hear our plea for hope. We confess that we do not grasp the depths
which drive one of Your children to end the life You began. We confess that faint
stirrings of guilt, soft wondering about our own inattentions, and a simple unease
all groan within us. Grant us a grace which will be sufficient for our own broken
and breaking places." Citizenship: "O God, The Giver of beginnings, we praise You
for giving to Your servants fresh possibilities,...