A Journey To The Pulpit

Author : Grant C. McDonald
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512770896

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A Journey to the Pulpit by Grant C. McDonald Pdf

My parents love their pastor, but they rarely get much from his sermons. Sound familiar? Why live with word salad, rabbit trails and bouncing around like a ball in a pin ball machine when you can work smarter, not harder. Frank pastors a country church. His positive attitude and effective preaching create an air of expectation for something great each week. As a multi-vocational pastor he rarely experiences the Saturday night panic and arrives at the pulpit ready to preach. George, a loner, also pastors a country church. The services are lack luster, he is approaching burn out and he questions his call to a pulpit ministry. George just toughs it out thinking it to be more godly. Saturday night is repetitively panic time and Sunday often brings excuses. George does not understand that he might need more preparation than does his sermons. What makes the difference? Frank recognized his need for help, and found a mentor. He learned to establish the purpose of the sermon first, match it with divine inspiration and have others help gather materials. This reduced preparation time, balanced his work schedule, family time, self-care and sermon preparation. By working on his illustrations and delivery, he could take a lesser quality sermon and turn it into a great event.

Author : Constantine
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802829341

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Travelers on the Journey by Constantine Pdf

Author : Christopher Geraghty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Catholic ex-priests
ISBN : 086786172X

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Dancing with the Devil by Christopher Geraghty Pdf

At the age of nearly forty, Christopher Geraghty stopped dancing with the Devil and invited another partner out onto the dance floor. A Catholic priest for nearly fifteen years, Geraghty endured bullying and persecution. This, coupled with a desire for intimacy and belonging, eventually caused Geraghty to turn his back on the priesthood for a chance at love and a family. During the ensuing thirty five years, while learning to dance to a different beat, Geraghty studied law and, for the last 16 years of his professional life, worked as a judge in Sydney. This is a story that is at times painful, sometimes funny, and at times, embarrassing and surprisingly honest. By luck and the grace of God, his story has a happy ending.

Author : Arthur Rouner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469738619

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Beyond the Pulpit by Arthur Rouner Pdf

Author : Richard P. Belcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0852343094

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A Journey in Grace by Richard P. Belcher Pdf

Author : Justin Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798777294531

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The Preacher by Justin Thornton Pdf

"The Preacher" is a comprehensive guide from heart to pulpit. It will take you on a journey starting from what the heart should look like, to the basics of hermeneutics and exegesis, to homiletics and eventually delivery. It is for the seasoned preacher and the seasoned preacher trying to train up a team of new preachers.

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451673791

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The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit is a dynamic history of the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. The story is told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft—a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912, when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that divides their wives, their children, and their closest friends, while crippling the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country’s history. The Bully Pulpit is also the story of the muckraking press, which arouses the spirit of reform that helps Roosevelt push the government to shed its laissez-faire attitude toward robber barons, corrupt politicians, and corporate exploiters of our natural resources. The muckrakers are portrayed through the greatest group of journalists ever assembled at one magazine—Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens, and William Allen White—teamed under the mercurial genius of publisher S.S. McClure. Goodwin’s narrative is founded upon a wealth of primary materials. The correspondence of more than four hundred letters between Roosevelt and Taft begins in their early thirties and ends only months before Roosevelt’s death. Edith Roosevelt and Nellie Taft kept diaries. The muckrakers wrote hundreds of letters to one another, kept journals, and wrote their memoirs. The letters of Captain Archie Butt, who served as a personal aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, provide an intimate view of both men. The Bully Pulpit, like Goodwin’s brilliant chronicles of the Civil War and World War II, exquisitely demonstrates her distinctive ability to combine scholarly rigor with accessibility. It is a major work of history—an examination of leadership in a rare moment of activism and reform that brought the country closer to its founding ideals.

Author : Mervyn A. Warren
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0830826580

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King Came Preaching by Mervyn A. Warren Pdf

Mervyn Warren offers you a journey into the preaching of Martin Luther King Jr., a homiletical biography exploring King's sermons, use of language, delivery and more.

Author : Daniel C. Dennett,Linda LaScola
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781634310222

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Caught in the Pulpit by Daniel C. Dennett,Linda LaScola Pdf

What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information age—the phenomenon of clergy who no longer believe what they publicly preach. In confidential interviews, clergy from across the ministerial spectrum—from liberal to literal—reveal how their lives of religious service and study have led them to a truth inimical to their professed beliefs and profession. Although their personal stories are as varied as the denominations they once represented, or continue to represent—whether Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Mormon, Pentecostal, or any of numerous others—they give voice not only to their own struggles but also to those who similarly suffer in tender and lonely silence. As this study poignantly and vividly reveals, their common journey has far-reaching implications not only for their families, their congregations, and their communities—but also for the very future of religion.

Author : Emily Michelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674075290

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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy by Emily Michelson Pdf

Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region’s violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.

Author : Tim Keesee
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433540721

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Dispatches from the Front by Tim Keesee Pdf

China, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq . . . God is at work. Christians are testifying. The gospel is advancing. In this captivating travelogue, a veteran missions mobilizer leads readers to experience global Christianity, exploring the faith and lives of Christians living in some of the world's most perilous countries. The incredible accounts recorded here—stories that span the globe from the Balkans to Afghanistan—highlight the bold faith and sacrificial bravery of God's people. Ultimately, this book magnifies Christ's saving work in all the earth and encourages Christians to joyfully embrace their role in the gospel's unstoppable advance!

Author : Henry L. Clark
Publisher : CB Publishing & Design
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1564115119

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From the Pit to the Pulpit by Henry L. Clark Pdf

Author : Thom S. Rainer
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433643880

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Who Moved My Pulpit? by Thom S. Rainer Pdf

Who Moved My Pulpit? may not be the exact question you’re asking. But you’re certainly asking questions about change in the church—where it’s coming from, why it’s happening, and how you’re supposed to hang on and follow God through it—even get out ahead of it so your church is faithfully meeting its timeless calling and serving the new opportunities of this age. Based on conversations with thousands of pastors, combined with on-the-ground research from more than 50,000 churches, best-selling author Thom S. Rainer shares an eight-stage roadmap to leading change in your church. Not by changing doctrine. Not by changing biblical foundations. But by changing methodologies and approaches for reaching a rapidly changing culture. You are the pastor. You are the church staff person. You are an elder. You are a deacon. You are a key lay leader in the church. This is the book that will equip you to celebrate and lead change no matter the cost. The time is now.

Author : L. Gregory Jones,Kevin R. Armstrong
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802832342

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Resurrecting Excellence by L. Gregory Jones,Kevin R. Armstrong Pdf

Resurrecting Excellence aims to rekindle and encourage among Christian leaders an unselfish ambition for the gospel that shuns both competition and mediocrity and rightly focuses on the beauty, power, and excellence of living as faithful disciples of the crucified and risen Christ. Drawing on ancient traditions and on contemporary voices, L. Gregory Jones offer both a theology of excellence and portraits of pastors, lay leaders, and congregations that embody "a more excellent way."--Publisher's description.

Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252040066

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The Street Is My Pulpit by Mwenda Ntarangwi Pdf

To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi explores the Kenyan hip hop scene through the lens of Juliani's life and career. A born-again Christian, Juliani produces work highlighting the tensions between hip hop's forceful self-expression and a pious approach to public life, even while contesting the basic presumptions of both. In The Street Is My Pulpit, Ntarangwi forges an uncommon collaboration with his subject that offers insights into Juliani's art and goals even as Ntarangwi explores his own religious experience and subjective identity as an ethnographer. What emerges is an original contribution to the scholarship on hip hop's global impact and a passionate study of the music's role in shaping new ways of being Christian in Africa.