Be Our Freedom Lord: Responsive Prayers and Readings for Contemporary Worship

By Terry C. Falla

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859106314
• ISBN13: 9780859106313
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Concordia Pub House
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best book of its kind that I've seen

First of all, someone needs to explain to me why this book is out of print. Absolutely inexcusable! There are litanies and responsive prayers included that can be used by churches of any tradition, and there seems to be more usable material here than in other books of its kind. If I could have only one book of readings for a service, this would be it. Not that it's perfect, or that I would use everything in here, but it meets my needs better than anything I've seen. Eerdman's, it's time to get this back in print!

One of the best books of prayers

This is one of the best and freshest books of prayers for public Christian worship I have come across. A great shame its out of print in the US, but you might be able to get from the publisher. While this collection of 'responsive prayers and readings for contemporary worship' is compiled by an Australian Baptist minister, it is neither narrowly Baptist nor narrowly Australian. There is a wide variety of material, sourced from around the world, helpfully collected in sections which make it easy to find relevant prayers quickly. You can search for prayers by theme, first line, author or scripture reference. Another of its great strengths lies in the fact that most of the prayers included are responsive and that they are often devised for more than one 'leader' (eg male and female). This book does not atempt to provide alternative liturgies, but to resource existing liturgies and inspire dynamic worship. The aim is to relate worship to the rest of reality. The editor, Terry Falla, quotes John Macquarrie as saying, 'Prayer interprets the world and the world interprets prayer'. My use of this book has enabled worship I have led to make just that link.