SOURCEBOOK OF FUNERALS (with disk or CD)+

The Sourcebook of Funerals doesn’t do your work for you, but it puts at your fingertips the resources you need to create comforting, helpful funerals that both honor the deceased and proclaim God’s Words.

The Sourcebook of Funerals includes:

ideas on appropriate music.

committal services for the graveside

counsel in care of the dying

follow-up care for the family

model pastoral letters to help those who grieve

and more!

To view the entire table of contents click here.

The disks are available in IBM-PC and MAC versions.

Table of Contents

Introduction Contributors Funeral Liturgies and Orders of Services General Denominational Prayers Part 1: Calls to Worship and Invocations Part 2: Prayers of Confession and Words of Pardon Part 3: Pastoral Prayers General Thanksgiving Petition Intercession Specific Part 4: Charges and Benedictions Part 5: Communion Scripture Readings Music for Funerals Part 1: Hymns Part 2: Choral Anthems Part 3: Organ Music Sermons Part 1: Sermons for Specific Situations For a Friend For a Suicide For an Accident Victim For a Person Outside the Church For a Man of God For a Physician For One Who Suffered Before Death For a Child For a Daughter For a Suicide For a Teenager For a Person of Mixed Character For a Hard-Working Woman For a Self-Giving Person For a Productive Retiree For an Unbeliever For One Who Was a Good Friend to Another For an Aged Person For Someone Who Had Been Chronically Ill For a Woman Who Died Before Her Husband Sermons Part 1: Sermons for Specific Situations (continued) For a Middle-Aged Single or Married Man For a Young Woman For a Faithful Man For an Aged Person For a Peacemaker For One Who Died in a Violent Crime For a Man Who Died in Midlife For a Special Church Worker For an Elderly Christian For a Victim of Cancer For a Faithful Member For an Infant or Young Child For an Invalid For a Church Usher For a Death by Suicide For an Untimely Death For a Middle-Aged Mother or Single Woman For an Elderly Wife For a Young Woman For a Person Who Declined Physically For a Church Leader For a Person Who Suffered Before Death Part 2: General Funeral Sermons A Home With Many Rooms Lilies Like Son, Like Father Doubting Thomas Our Resurrection Faith Then and Now When The Answer Is "No" Lord Jesus Joy An Obscure Disciple Part 3: Sermon Seeds Questions and The Question The Unbroken Covenant Go Marching On By Heart		(continued) Part 3: Sermon Seeds The Gethsemane Model His Gift to Us Trust "It Is Finished" Born to Die Three Toasts Patience Amazing Grace (Suicide) King David's Grief (A Child's Death) Asking the Impossible (An Accident Victim) Built to Last Comfort for Mourners Sermons Part 3: Sermon Seeds (continued) Three Little Words (Invalid) Imitations Philip A Good Word for Death Readings On Death Sprouting Forth Into Newness God Will Enter Into Your Night Letting Go I Am Not Afraid of Death The Water is Friendly Never Better! Here and Now I Met Death Face to Face Prayer of Faith How Well Have I Loved? Holy Saturday No Man Is an Island Our Deliverance Together The Shout of "No" Why We Are Here Ashes of Life A More Enduring Light The Sonnets of William Shakespeare Love's Triumph Over Death Darest Thou Now O Soul Whispers of Heavenly Death We Are God's Essence In Beauty May I Walk An Epitaph The Future Love is That Later Thing than Death To One in Paradise Thanatopsis The Crossing To an Athlete Dying Young Because I Could Not Stop for Death Intensive Care, A Family Love Story A Loss Survived Lazarus Lazarus II Mortal Flesh, Is Not Your Place in the Ground? God Is The ABC of Dying If On a Winter's Night a Traveler This Our Father Did for Us Lincoln, the Man of the People Requiem Readings (continued) Faith Opening on the Dawn The Eternal Goodness Epitaph on My Father Be Still and Know The New Dimension of Love Gone Sources and Acknowledgements The Committal Service Part 1: Scripture Part 2: Words of Committal Part 3: Prayers Part 4: Benedictions Care of the Dying and their Loved Ones Scripture Sentences Prayers of Commendation Prayers for Loved Ones Pastoral Notes, Sermons, Specific Funeral Bibliography Resources for Pastoral Care Appendices Funeral/Memorial Societies Denominational Policy Funeral Guidelines