Product Description: Almost every month in the year has a secular holiday -- and on those ""special"" Sundays, preachers need to balance honoring the occasion with maintaining their focus on the proclamation of God's Word. It can be a challenging task, but it also presents a great opportunity to uncover the religious significance of our civic celebrations...read more

Product Description: Prayer is a powerful force -- in Tennyson's oft-quoted phrase, ""more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."" But the Lord's Prayer is so familiar that we often take it for granted, reciting it by rote and missing its deeper meaning...read more

Product Description: Communion is an inexhaustible mystery -- a gift of God's grace. Yet because it is familiar we sometimes take it for granted. Though theologians may disagree about exactly what happens in and through the sacrament, we all agree that something happens -- at the Lord's Supper we are changed...read more