Designed to help pastors and worship planners integrate four of the most important biblical themes into worship, each volume provides complete services for a number of different scripture passages. These resources can be used in conjunction with the new Bible Quest curriculum or in other worship contexts, including churches that follow the lectionary.The services, written by pastors and lay leaders from several denominations, feature a call to worship, an opening prayer, a prayer of confession, words of assurance, prayers of the people, a children's sermon, two sermon starters, an offering meditation, an offering prayer, a communion meditation, and a benediction.This updated biography of Barton Stone (the first in over forty years) displays the full breadth and depth of the faith seeking understanding that animated this early nineteenth-century reformer. Of special interest to ministers and laity will be Stone's conviction that faithfulness unites spiritual vitality, intellectual integrity, and moral commitment.
