HYMNS ANCIENT & MODERN LT

Useful for those people who have come to faith through the Alpha course, this beginner's guide to spiritual formation explores the next stages of the Christian journey. It seeks to draw on the riches of the biblical and Christian traditions to offer a complete personal guide to spiritual growth.

A tabulated guide that enables clergy and worship leaders to choose hymns that relate to the day's Bible readings for each Sunday, major holy days and festivals throughout the Christian year. This work offers a range of choices for opening, gradual, offertory and closing hymns.

This text is a step-by-step guide for churchwardens and PCCs on managing a church when there is no priest. It offers practical advice on topics such as preparing for an interregnum; arranging for continuing worship and pastoral care; and keeping church administration going.

A book of cartoons, written by a web editor and former church and community youth worker who has earned international fame not only as a cartoon commentator on the state of the Church (local and universal), but also as a regular cartoonist on the "Church Times", and as the creator of 'The Dullest Blog in the World'.

Containing opening sentences, propers, collects and readings for the celebration of the Eucharist on every Sunday and Holy Day of the Christian year and on a large number of saints' days, taken from the Book of Common Prayer and other traditional sources. A classic of Anglo-Catholic spirituality and devotion.

A classic book of ceremonies and services according to the Western Rite, for all services other than the Eucharist which a parish priest would normally carry out. It contains orders of service for baptism, marriage, funerals, sick visiting, home communion and penance, as well as numerous blessing ceremonies for buildings, objects and events.

Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the shop window of the church and there is nothing more important for mission than getting them right. How do we help congregations and occasional visitors encounter God through them? This practical guide draws upon the treasury of the church's tradition and experience to establish good practice.

This simple, practical guide to 'pure prayer' teaches that we should give God freedom to be himself in our hearts without controlling him with words and images. This is a nourishing, life-giving stream of hope and refreshment.