Overview
Guidance, advice, and ready-to-use sermons and services for the busy pastor Weddings and funerals are some of the most meaningful events in people's lives, and also some of the most challenging for the pastor to perform. Written with the needs of the busy pastor in mind, this popular and newly updated handbook includes everything necessary to conduct a variety of weddings and funerals, along with other common events such as Communion, baptisms, dedications, and ordinations. Helpful aids for weddings include services, vow renewals, messages, prayers, guidelines for vows, information on marriage laws, and, new in this edition, a service and message for second marriages. Guidance for funerals covers orders of service, quotations and reflections, and eulogies for a variety of circumstances, incorporating those with evangelistic appeal, untimely deaths, and suicide. New to this edition are funerals for service members, victims of violence, accidental deaths, cancer, and community tragedies. Additional new resources include blessing services for a home or special event and guidance for speaking at fraternal organizations. Pastors of all denominations will benefit from the services, advice, and resources in this sought-after handbook.
Full Product Details
Author: Aubrey Malphurs ,
Keith Willhite ,
Dennis Hillman
Publisher: Kregel Publications,U.S.
Imprint: Kregel Publications,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.548kg
ISBN: 9780825446658
ISBN 10: 0825446651
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 22 February 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
As a pastor, I know how important it is to find contemporary ideas that aren't stale or hackneyed or outdated. I love the breadth of this book and I appreciate the wide range of suggestions. Ministers of all ages and backgrounds will find it indispensable. Aubrey Malphurs and Keith Willhite have performed a service to the whole body of Christ. If you are in the ministry, buy this book and keep it handy because you'll need it sooner or later. --Ray Pritchard Senior Pastor, Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois (7/9/2021 12:00:00 AM) Weddings and funerals provide some of the most significant opportunities for ministry in the life of any pastor and ones for which we are usually the most poorly prepared. I highly recommend this resource as a tool for pastors everywhere to fulfill their calling with greater effectiveness and with spiritual accuracy. --Chip Ingram President, Walk Thru the Bible, Teaching Pastor, Living on the Edge (7/9/2021 12:00:00 AM)
Author Information
Aubrey Malphurs (Th.M., Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary) is president of Vision Ministries International and chairman of the Field Education Department at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor and church planter and is the author of numerous books in the areas of leadership, vision, and church ministry, including Ministry Nuts and Bolts: What They Don't Teach Pastors in Seminary; Doing Church; and Developing a Dynamic Mission for Your Ministry. Keith Willhite (Ph.D., Purdue University; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) teaches preaching and serves as professor of Pastoral Ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Willhite is also a former pastor and the founder and president of the popular ministry-consulting firm, Strategenuity. Dennis Hillman (MDiv, Dallas Theological Seminary) has served as a pastor, not-for-profit board member, and as a publishing executive.
