A trusted planning resource for traditional and contemporary worship! Includes interactive CD!  

The Abingdon Worship Annual 2012 offers fresh worship planning resources for pastors and worship leaders.   Using a Theme Idea based on the lectionary readings, each week’s offering of prayers and litanies follows a basic pattern of Christian worship: Invitation and Gathering Proclamation and Response Thanksgiving and Communion Sending Forth.  Alternative ideas for Praise Sentences and Contemporary Gathering Words are offered for those who work in contemporary worship settings.

Searchable CD Extras! Along with the entire print text in PDF format for ease of navigation and use, the AWA 2012 offers some these great extras:    

• Text hyperlinked to the Table of Contents  
• Song suggestions for each week, hyperlinked to the text
• Annotated Resource List with links to helpful worship planning Web sites (NEW!)
• Prayers and Liturgies for Baptisms   

Now more than ever, The Abingdon Worship Annual is a must-have sourcebook offering countless opportunities for planning meaningful and insightful worship.    

The Abingdon Worship Annual 2012 offers fresh worship planning resources for pastors and worship leaders. Worship leaders “share a common challenge: to provide quality, integrated, creative worship week after week for congregations hungry for meaningful

Pastors and other preachers have long turned to The Abingdon Preaching Annual for help with one of the central tasks of their ministry: sermon preparation.

The 2012 edition of the Annual continues and, in response to our faithful readers, improves this fine tradition.
 
Sermon helps include: lectionary-based sermons for each Sunday and special liturgical event of the year; lectionary commentary; and 15 topical sermon series on diverse themes like missions, modern families, life in the Holy Spirit, stewardship, and more.

Worship planning aids include a four-year liturgical event calendar Guide to liturgical colors; 2012 lectionary readings in one, easy-to-read table; and related worship aids following each lectionary sermon, and each sermon series.

Searchable CD-Rom included with every book that includes: full text of the print edition with a hyperlinked table of contents; pre-sermon, offertory, and pastoral prayers; classical and contemporary prayers and affirmations; classic sermon Annotated bibliography hyperlinked to the sermon titles; and full text of every lectionary passage used with hyperlinks to the weekly readings.

The Abingdon Preaching Annual, always a trusted resource, is now the most comprehensive and useful aid for sermon preparation you will find.