With All Our Prayers: Walking with God through the Christian Year

by John B. Rogers Jr.

Overview

A resource for both corporate worship and personal devotion, With All Our Prayers invites readers to pray, think, and live into God's purpose for the world and for their own lives. Written by a longtime Presbyterian pastor, the beautiful prayers in this book are theologically grounded in God's steadfast love and invincible grace and contain traditional elements of adoration, confession, thanksgiving, petition, and intercession.

In this helpful volume church leaders will find prayers ordered around the liturgical calendar with themes appropriate to the seasons of the church year. Individuals and prayer groups will find guidance in praying for church and world, in interceding on behalf of strangers and enemies as well as loved ones and friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802871916
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/06/2015
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

John B. Rogers Jr. is a retired Presbyterian pastor living in Montreat, North Carolina. His previous books include In Him Is Life: How Christ Meets Our Deepest Needs.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: With All Our Prayers xi

I Am (Advent) 1

And His Name Shall Be Called Emmanuel, God with Us (Advent) 4

Good News of Great Joy … to All People (Advent) 7

The Beyond in the Midst of Life (Advent) 10

And the Word Became Flesh and Dwelt among Us (Christmas Eve) 13

Mine Eyes Have Seen Thy Salvation (The New Year) 15

Tile Light of the World (Epiphany) 17

Prayers from Deep Within 19

Thou Dost Beset Me Behind and Before 23

Grace to Help in Time of Need (Lent) 27

The Gift of Faith (Lent) 30

Our Maker and Keeper (Lent) 33

Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord (Palm/Passion Sunday) 36

The New Covenant (Maundy Thursday): Invitation to the Table and Prayer of Thanksgiving 39

For Us (Good Friday) 41

The Risen Lord (Easter) 43

God's Purpose in Us 46

Praying with the Bible 49

Prayers for the Children of God (A Communion Prayer) 53

Risen, Ascended, Reigning (Ascension/Christ the King) 55

The Fruit of the Spirit (Pentecost) 58

The Faithfulness of God (Sunday before Memorial Day) 61

We Believe; Help Our Unbelief 65

Prayers (or the Common Life 68

The Proper Place of Fear 71

Let Us Worship God 74

For Those at Life's Breaking Places 77

Chosen before the Foundation of the World (Confirmation) 80

My People Whom I Formed and Made 83

Be Not Afraid (A Prayer after September 11, 2001) 86

World Communion Sunday 91

The Word of God 93

Thou Restoreth My Soul 95

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Reformation Sunday) 98

A Great Cloud of Witnesses (All Saints' Day) 101

On Holding Things Together 104

A Thanksgiving Prayer 107

A Funeral Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession 111

Editorial Reviews

Journal for Preachers
"Here is the work of a preacher and pastor who understands that in addition to the sermon, the other essential contribution to worship is the pastoral prayer. . . . A gift to preachers and to the church catholic."

Thomas W. Currie
-- Union Presbyterian Seminary
"The church undertakes no more radical witness in the world than when it prays, so John Rogers's book of prayers is a book of great hope. These prayers help us understand the radical nature of God's love and the gracious privilege of voicing our thanks and praise. They will serve as models for the church of the twenty-first century to begin the daring work of prayer."

Dean K. Thompson
-- Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
"I gratefully use John Rogers's remarkable, theologically profound prayers both in public worship leadership and in my personal devotional life. These powerful and exquisite sacred offerings bring to mind the utterly compelling testimony of Psalm 42:7, that 'deep calleth unto deep.' "

Congregational Libraries Today
"Any Christian who has difficulty praying will benefit from reading With All Our Prayers. . . . The prayers, arranged in chapters that follow the liturgical calendar, are excellent models both in style and in content. . . . Rogers couches his prayers in down-to-earth language with genuine sincerity, and the result is a beautiful elegance."

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