Augsburg Fortress

Embodying Confidence and Grace: A Handbook for Presiding Ministers

Embodying Confidence and Grace by Callista Isabelle will guide those who serve as presiding ministers for the assembly's worship.

In These or Similar Words: Crafting Language for Worship

This resource will guide individuals and groups who wish to prepare new worship texts for their communities.

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Love and Faithfulness: A Marriage Planning Handbook

Love and Faithfulness provides couples with brief explanations and the entire text of the Evangelical Lutheran Worship marriage service, as well as more recent supplemental resources.

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Altar Guild and Sacristy Handbook: Fourth Revised Edition

This fourth, revised edition of Stauffer's classic reflects recent developments in liturgical practice, and attention to the Evangelical Lutheran Worship family of resources.

Remembering God's Promises: A Funeral Planning Handbook

Remembering God’s Promises offers notes and commentary on the funeral service in Evangelical Lutheran Worship, lists of suggested scripture readings and hymns, and information on other planning options. 

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Leading Worship Matters: A Sourcebook for Preparing Worship Leaders

A comprehensive guide with practical, succinct, easy-to-use tools and resources to support, plan, execute, and evaluate lay worship leadership development.

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In Sure and Certain Hope: A Funeral Sourcebook

A comprehensive guide for planning, presiding, and preaching at funerals, with customizable rites, liturgies, an adult forum series outline, and tools to help individuals plan their own funerals. CD-ROM included.

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Worship Matters: An Introduction to Worship Course Kit

This 5-session introductory course has been developed to help participants grow into a richer understanding of the foundations of Lutheran worship.

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Daily Bread, Holy Meal: Opening the Gifts of Holy Communion

Drawing on recent biblical and historical studies, this exploration of the eucharist asks the seeker in every Christian to consider the ecological, theological, communal, and ethical dimensions of the Lord's supper.

Serving the Assembly's Worship: A Handbook for Assisting Ministers

In this small handbook you will find a brief history of assisting ministers in Christian worship, what makes a good assisting minister, a step-by-step walk through the role, and lots of tips and encouragement.

The Three-Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter

Recent decades have witnessed the revival of the ancient liturgies of the Three Days-Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. The author gives a little history and a lot of suggestions...

Getting the Word Out: A Handbook for Readers

This handbook is filled with practical helps, preparation exercises, and spiritual wisdom for readers. It also includes a pronunciation guide for the lectionary readings.

Praying for the Whole World: A Handbook for Intercessors

In this concise, charming, down-to-earth handbook, you will find seven steps, from Monday through Sunday, to assist your crafting of the prayers of the faithful.

Welcome One Another: A Handbook for Hospitality Ministers

This handbook includes many practical proposals that will expand and solidify notions of who hospitality ministers are and why they matter.

Worship Matters: An Introduction to Worship Participant Book

The participant book provides all the content a participant needs for each session, and serves as an excellent reference after the course is complete.

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A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology

Begins with the classic, ecumenically held patterns of Christian worship and explores them for their deep connections to ecological wisdom, for their sacramental approaches to creation,...

Central Things: Worship in Word and Sacrament

A revised and expanded edition of the 1994 classic What Are the Essentials of Christian Worship?...

Why Worship Matters

The first volume in the series, this collection of bite-size essays is a conversation-starter for those who want to look at the assembly's worship in very broad terms.

Flowing Water, Uncommon Birth: Christian Baptism in a Post-Christian Culture

This book invites us to ask important questions about the central mystery of Holy Baptism and the fullness of the baptized life.

Centripetal Worship: The Evangelical Heart of Lutheran Worship

Examines how worship is, and should be, at the center of the assembly. Contributors look at the historical and contemporary factors that influence how and why we worship the way we do.