Prayers for Advent 1 - Year A
Prayers for Advent 1 - Year A
by John Birch
Prayers of adoration, confession and thanksgiving for Advent: ADORATION The Advent story of hope and mystery, anticipation, preparation. A kingdom of this world and the next and a king appearing when we least expect. Heaven touching earth... CONFESSION Forgive your people who slu…
Prayers for Advent 3 - Year A
Prayers for Advent 3 - Year A
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Advent 3 ADORATION We are blessed if, knowing you as Lord we are obedient to your Word. We are blessed if in our journeying we respond to your call to follow... CONFESSION God of wholeness, healing and power, f orgive our relu…
Prayers for Advent 4 - Year A
Prayers for Advent 4 - Year A
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Advent ADORATION We are called, set apart, servants of our heavenly King. We are loved as we are, by grace, a love so amazing... CONFESSION Restore us, O Lord, we pray, bring us back to that place where we first met, as shephe…
Prayers for Advent 2 - Year A
Prayers for Advent 2 - Year A
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Advent 2 ADORATION Spirit of wisdom rest upon us, grant us understanding and an increase in our faith. Spirit of knowledge rest upon us, grant us discernment in decisions we must make... CONFESSION Advent God, we journey with …
Prayers for Christmas Day - Year A
Prayers for Christmas Day - Year A
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Christmas Day ADORATION From the very beginning was Your Word which spoke this world into being, Your Word which thunders from the skies, Your Word... CONFESSION You gave your all to the world in the bleakness of that stable. …
Prayer - Eternal God, all our praise will never be enough
Prayer - Eternal God, all our praise will never be enough
by Euruic
Prayer of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving Based on Isaiah 6:1-8 Eternal God, all our praise will never be enough to sing of Your Glory. Whatever situations we might find ourselves in, You Are God, Forever the same, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Your Love never ceases Your L…
Prayers for Good Friday
Prayers for Good Friday
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Good Friday ADORATION This is love. Not that you spoke words of comfort, walked with the unclean and unloved, shared wisdom, bread and fish, brought healing into lives... Continues CONFESSION You were a man of suffering acquai…
Prayers for Palm Sunday
Prayers for Palm Sunday
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Palm Sunday ADORATION Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest! The cry goes up from earth to sky, and angelic voices carry the song. Continues... CONFESSION When pride and selfishness obscure my vision, and voices of this world confus…
Three Prayers for Harvest #4
Three Prayers for Harvest #4
by John Birch
Prayers of adoration, thanksgiving and confession suitable for Harvest celebrations Three Harvest Prayers #4 The heavens proclaim your glory through creation's glorious song, and all that live upon the earth are moved to sing along, praising your gracious provision and glorious k…
Three Harvest Prayers #2
Three Harvest Prayers #2
by John Birch
Prayers of adoration, thanksgiving and confession suitable for Harvest celebrations Three Harvest Prayers #2 God of Summer sun, fruitful fields, food to eat, you are worthy of our praise! God of mountain stream, rolling hills, pleasant views, you are worthy of our praise! Continu…
Three Harvest Prayers #1
Three Harvest Prayers #1
by John Birch
Prayers of adoration, thanksgiving and confession suitable for Harvest celebrations Three Harvest Prayers #1 The God who breathed this world alive and sustains it day by day, whose hands threw stars out into space and controls our destiny says, "Do not be afraid, for I am with yo…
Three Harvest Prayers #3
Three Harvest Prayers #3
by John Birch
Prayers of adoration, thanksgiving and confession suitable for Harvest celebrations Three Harvest Prayers #3 Thank you for the gift of sunshine and rain in due season, of seed, soil and harvest, provision for our needs and others, if in love we share. Thank you for the gift of li…
Prayers for Easter Day
Prayers for Easter Day
by John Birch
Prayers of Adoration, Confession and Thanksgiving for Easter Day ADORATION Rejoice! We thank you, The stone is rolled away, and Jesus Christ is risen from the grave! Halleluiah! Continues... CONFESSION When our faith stands at the grave, grieving at a stone that's rolled away, fo…
Eggs and Ashes Book - Under Your Wings
Eggs and Ashes Book - Under Your Wings
by R Burgess/C Polhill (Wild Goose Publ)
Prayer of adoration and praise Under your wings How many times have I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me. (Luke 13:34) Under your wings You would hide us MOTHERING GOD Under your wings You woul…
Eggs and Ashes Book - When We Cry