Bøger af B J Beu

In the midst of a global pandemic, most of us will be celebrating Lent in new and different ways-some with sorrow, some with hopeful expectation. Whether you find yourself yearning for days gone by or excitedly looking forward to a quieter, simpler season, this book is our gift to you. In these pages you will find resources to create and claim new traditions and rituals for yourself and your loved ones. Even if you have the opportunity to gather for live worship with a faith community or are leading others in worship this holiday season, you will find here words, songs, rituals, and activities to help map a personalized spiritual journey through Lent. Use these services for communal worship with family and friends, or for personal devotion and spiritual growth. You may even use these resources to enhance live and large-group gatherings you are a part of. We invite you to create your own family traditions. Read the words and prayers silently or aloud, sing or listen to the suggested songs, reflect on the poetry of the song lyrics and the wisdom of the scriptures and stories, and participate in the activities and rituals that help you focus on the meaning of Christ's passion and presence in your life. Share this book with a spouse, a child, a life partner, a friend, your family, a small group, or even neighborhood friends. (Share these services via video conference if needs be.) Christ will be with you, perhaps more so than ever. Whatever your situation and the state of the world, we hope you will find inspiration and ideas in these pages to strengthen your spirit and sustain your soul.

The go-to worship planning resource for all who plan weekly worship. The Abingdon Worship Annual 2025 is a practical, lectionary-based resource for leaders responsible for planning worship. This thoughtful sourcebook offers a weekly theme with meaningful prayers and fresh litanies following a traditional order of Christian worship: Invitation and Gathering Proclamation and Response Thanksgiving and Communion Sending ForthLiturgies and prayers are also included for special days, including New Year's Day, Ascension Day, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Eve. The Annual includes helpful reminders for Christian-year planning--including liturgical colors--and a scripture index. The authors also provide in-depth guidance and practical ideas for this new age of worship, helping readers understand and weigh their options for worshiping in digital spaces and unconventional places. The Abingdon Worship Annual 2025 is a must-have sourcebook offering countless opportunities for planning meaningful and insightful worship.

In the midst of a global pandemic, most of us will be celebrating the Easter season in new and different ways-some with sorrow, some with hopeful expectation. Whether you find yourself yearning for days gone by or excitedly looking forward to a quieter, simpler season, this book is our gift to you. In these pages you will find resources to create and claim new traditions and rituals for yourself and your loved ones. Even if you have the opportunity to gather for live worship with a faith community or are leading others in worship this holiday season, you will find here words, songs, rituals, and activities to help map a personalized spiritual journey through the Easter season. Use these services for communal worship with family and friends, or for personal devotion and spiritual growth. You may even use these resources to enhance live and large-group gatherings you are a part of. We invite you to create your own family traditions. Read the words and prayers silently or aloud, sing or listen to the suggested songs, reflect on the poetry of the song lyrics and the wisdom of the scriptures and stories, and participate in the activities and rituals that help you focus on the meaning of the resurrected Christ's presence in your life. Share this book with a spouse, a child, a life partner, a friend, your family, a small group, or even neighborhood friends. (Share these services via video conference if needs be.) Christ will be with you, perhaps more so than ever. Whatever your situation and the state of the world, we hope you will find inspiration and ideas in these pages to strengthen your spirit and sustain your soul.

In over twenty years of ministry, I have married hundreds of couples. Every couple has brought unique elements to their wedding, but they have all shared the decision to express their love before family and friends in a relationship that carries both societal approval and legal protection. Until recently, they have also shared one other thing in common-none of these couples were same-sex. It just wasn't allowed. It bothered me that I was allowed to bless a same-sex couple's home, business, and pets, but not their love and their commitment to each other. If God is love, and if the gospel is a witness to this all-encompassing love, why was I not allowed to sanctify and hallow the love of two people created in the image of God, simply because they share a gender? When I assigned the same-sex couples a wedding planning book to choose language for their service, I quickly realized that the book I had assigned to hundreds of cisgender couples was utterly void of appropriate language and material for same-sex services. This book is a response to that void. In its pages, you will find all the elements of a standard marriage ceremony, but you will find so much more. You will find poems of passionate love. You will find Rituals of Union, representing the joining of your lives: unity candle ceremonies, Sand ceremonies, wine ceremonies, even Celtic rituals like "Tying the Knot." You will find two beautiful Blessing of the Hands readings to use before the giving and receiving of rings. But above all, you will understand what each element of the marriage ceremony represents and how to use this knowledge to create a beautiful service that is uniquely your own. And so, allow this book to lead you on a journey of discovery-a journey that helps you understand what you and your partner hold sacred, a journey that transforms this understanding into a service that will draw you closer together, a journey that will deepen the relationship you have chosen to celebrate and solemnize in marriage.

The Abingdon Worship Annual 2023 is a practical, lectionary-based resource for leaders who are responsible for planning worship. This thoughtful sourcebook offers a weekly theme with meaningful prayers and fresh litanies following a traditional order of Christian worship: Invitation and Gathering Proclamation and Response Thanksgiving and Communion Sending ForthLiturgies and prayers are also included for special days, including New Year's Day, Ascension Day, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Eve. The Annual includes helpful reminders for Christian-year planning--including liturgical colors--and a scripture index. The authors also provide in-depth guidance and practical ideas for this new age of worship, helping readers to understand and weigh their options for worshiping in digital spaces and in unconventional places. The Abingdon Worship Annual 2023 is a must-have source book offering countless opportunities for planning meaningful and insightful worship.

Worship at Home: Advent and Christmas 2020 is packed with weekly worship services you can do on your own or with others and includes services for each week in Advent, Christmas Eve, the Sunday after Christmas, and Epiphany. This book is for congregations and individuals who want to stay spiritually connected and growing, even when they're not worshiping together in the same space. It provides everything you need to conduct meaningful, spiritually fulfilling, traditionally rooted worship services at home or in other intimate environments.Each service includes essential worship elements, from gathering to benediction, with words and actions you can say and do yourself. Included are links for online musical selections plus traditional hymn suggestions from a variety of hymnals. You'll find helpful ideas for how to use this resource in a variety of settings, and how to create worshipful spaces, even in your own home.The Worship at Home series is organized by the liturgical year, with a new book for each season: Advent and Christmas, Lent, Easter and Eastertide, Pentecost, and the weeks after Pentecost. Ways the resource can be used by individuals and families include: - Individuals can use the resource for personal devotion and worship at any time, wherever they like. Go through the entire service, or simply choose whatever portions are helpful. Read a prayer and meditate. Watch a video clip and reflect on it. Sing a song or hymn.- Families can use Worship at Home in the same ways, any time and any place.- Suggestions are included for creating worship spaces at home, and for involving children in the services.Here are some ways the resource can be used by a congregation or group: - Pastors or group leaders can use Worship at Home as the worship plans for weekly church services. The pastor might prepare a sermon or homily, but everything else is ready to go.- People can use the resource for worship in any space-at a senior care center, in a park, on the lawn, at the church, and so forth. No bulletins or hymnals are needed. - People gathered to worship via Zoom, FaceTime, Facebook or Instagram Live, or livestream will all be reading aloud the same prayers from these books, singing the same songs or singing along with a video. Worship at Home provides a participatory experience and a sense of community, even when people are worshiping remotely.