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Author : Raymond Barber
Publisher : Sword of the Lord Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Pastoral theology
ISBN : 0873986695
Author : Ben Kirby
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780785238904
Founder of the phenomenon social media account PreachersNSneakers tackles how faith, capitalism, consumerism, and (wannabe) celebrity have collided and asks both believers and nonbelievers alike: how much is too much? What started as a joke account on Instagram has turned into a movement. Through this provocative project, the founder of PreachersNSneakers is helping thousands of Jesus followers wrestle with the inevitable dilemmas created by our Western culture obsessed with image and entertainment. In PreachersNSneakers: Authenticity in an Age of For-Profit Faith and (Wannabe) Celebrities, Ben Kirby approaches many of the difficult questions plaguing countless Christians’ minds, presenting experiences and input from both sides of difficult questions, such as: Should pastors grow wealthy off of religion, and can their churches ever be too large? Do we really believe that divine blessings are monetary, or is that just religious wallpaper to hide our own greed? Is there space in Christendom for celebrities like Kanye and Bieber to exist without distorting the good news? What about this: Is it wrong for someone—even wrong for author Ben Kirby—to call out faith leaders online and leverage “cancel culture” to affect change? PreachersNSneakers will navigate these challenging questions and many more with humor, wit, candor, and a few never-before-published hijinks. Each chapter will explore the various sides of the debate, holding space for us to make up our own minds. This book is not about finding the perfect, “right” way to do something, but instead learning how to articulate what we believe, why we believe it, and what to do when we want to stand up against cultural norms. This book will doubtlessly become a staple for church small groups, college ministries, and book clubs, emboldening struggling believers who want to live a more genuine faith. After all, the Lord works in mysterious colorways.
Author : Fred M. Barlow
Publisher : Sword of the Lord Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0873986598
Author : Adolph Bedsole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Church group work
ISBN : OCLC:1347764766
This is a stimulating and provocative work. The writer has dipped his pen in an acid which smarts when applied, but its application is always in love and with goodwill. Abundant humor and laughter enable the reader to see himself in a mirror. The preacher under this treatment will benefit and be enriched morally and spiritually. Because the preacher is prone to tell others how to live, this book should bring a searchlight upon his own soul. Here is a plumbline of judgment and a method of self-scrutiny. The message is for the still hour and the chambers of imagery wherein the pastor dwells. The author’s style is lively and colorful. It moves swiftly and keeps one interested and intrigued. The stab and thrust of truth comes to the conscience. Occasionally there are lapses into slang, but possibly the author intends this in satirical vein? Throughout, the provocative element is well expressed, and in his own way he reveals much of what he has felt and experienced. In self reference he is free from egotism. This is good. No one will accuse him of being pharisaical or holier-than-thou. Periodically, ministers need to read a book of this kind “to see himself as others see him.” Let it be read then with open mind and obedient heart in the sight of the Lord!
Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000989946
This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the late second and early third centuries CE. The work provides basic data on the date, genre, and provenance of the Naassene discourse as summarized by the author of the Refutation (or Refutator). It also offers an analysis of the Refutator’s sources and working methods, an analysis which allows for a full reconstruction of the original Naassene discourse. The book then turns to major aspects of Naassene Christianity: its intense engagement with Hellenic myth and “mysteries,” its biblical sources, its cosmopolitan hermeneutics, its snake symbology, as well as its distinctive approach to baptism, hymns, and celibacy. A concluding chapter outlines all we can securely reconstruct about the Naassene Christian movement in terms of its social identity and place in the larger field of early Christianity and ancient Mediterranean religions more broadly. The Naassenes: Exploring an Early Christian Identity is suitable for students, scholars, and general readers interested in Early Christianity, Gnostic and Nag Hammadi Studies, Classics, and Ancient Philosophy, as well as hermeneutical issues like allegory and intertextuality.
Author : Rebecca VanDoodewaard
Publisher : Banner Board Books
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Board books
ISBN : 1848717245
Doctors don't often become pastors. In The Doctor Who Became a Preacher, find out why 'the Doctor' left medicine to preach God's word. Try to spot a rocking horse, a boat, and even Queen Elizabeth. These simple stories, written with 1-3 year olds in mind, have beautiful, engaging illustrations that will have your children asking you to read them over and over!
Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691209197
Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Scott M. Gibson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801066238
Preaching the Old Testament equips pastors to journey into the forest and find a passion and confidence for preaching on the Old Testament.
Author : Thomas Nelson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401675721
Preach great sermons and plan innovative worship services with the newest edition of Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook. This volume is the same sermon planner you have come to depend on for more than ten years. Outstanding pastors provide an entire year’s worth of preaching and worship resources for every week. Look for a new volume every fall. Features include: Sermons, creative outlines, illustrations, and quotes for every week of the year Worship helps, including hymns, prayers, and Scripture texts Inspirational thoughts and preaching techniques Sermons for special occasions and holidays Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebooks sold to date: More than 135,000
Author : Thomas Nelson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401675714
This volume is the same sermon planner you have come to depend on for more than ten years. Outstanding pastors provide an entire year's worth of preaching and worship resources for every week.
Author : Ruthanna Hooke
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898696462
At once “travel guide” and vision for the future, the Transformation series is good news for the Episcopal Church at a time of fast and furious demographic and social change. Series contributors - recognized experts in their fields - analyze our present plight, point to the seeds of change already at work transforming the church, and outline a positive new way forward. What kinds of churches are most ready for transformation? What are the essential tools? What will give us strength, direction, and purpose to the journey? Each volume of the series will: Explain why a changed vision is essential Give robust theological and biblical foundations Offer a guide to best practices and positive trends in churches large and small. Describe the necessary tools for change Imagine how transformation will look Preaching is one of the more “transformable” aspects of the church’s life. Performance teacher Ruthanna Hooke, writing for both clergy and lay leaders, delivers the good and bad news about Episcopalians and preaching. She explains why preaching is more difficult than ever today, and provides essential models and spiritual practices in order to transform both the creators of preaching and its listeners as both participate in sermons.
Author : J. Kent Edwards
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805446951
J. Kent Edwards recalls a story that late pastor J. Vernon McGee told about seeing children in South Africa playing a game of marbles in the dust with real diamonds. The precious stones were being handled with no regard for their true worth. Edwards fears the same thing happens today when preachers offer Scriptural truth to listeners without being completely overwhelmed by its greatness themselves in the process. Deep Preaching is his call to "rethink" preaching. Edwards helps preachers learn to preach the word in ways that will powerfully change the lives of hearers. He contends that sermons "need not settle comfortably on the lives of the listeners like dust on a coffee table." He encourages preachers to join him in casting off the lines that moor their ministries to the status-quo and make every effort to steer their preaching out of the "comfortable shallows." He urges them to preach deep sermons rather than superficial ones, moving "beyond the yawn-inspiring to the awe-inspiring, from the trite to the transforming."
Author : Richard Lischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190065119
The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious development from a precocious "preacher's kid" in segregated Atlanta to the most influential America preacher and orator of the twentieth century. To give the most accurate and intimate portrait possible, Richard Lischer draws almost exclusively on King's unpublished sermons and speeches, as well as tape recordings, personal interviews, and even police surveillance reports. By returning to the raw sources, Lischer recaptures King's truest preaching voice and, consequently, something of the real King himself. He shows how as the son, grandson, and great-grandson of preachers, King early on absorbed the poetic cadences, traditions, and power of the pulpit, more profoundly influenced by his fellow African-American preachers than by Gandhi and the classical philosophers. Lischer also reveals a later phase of King's development that few of his biographers or critics have addressed: the prophetic rage with which he condemned American religious and political hypocrisy. During the last three years of his life, Lischer shows, King accused his country of genocide, warned of long hot summers in the ghettos, and called for a radical redistribution of wealth. 25 years after its initial publication, The Preacher King remains a critical study that captures the crucial aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.'s identity. Human, complex, and passionate, King was the consummate American preacher who never quit trying to reshape the moral and political character of the nation.
Author : John S. McClure,Allie Utley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666743838
Preaching is best learned and improved when preachers receive excellent, supportive reflection on their lived experiences and sermons. For nearly ten years at Vanderbilt Divinity School a group of scholars and practicing preachers joined together to develop and hone several models of peer-group and individual coaching. In this book, they describe the key dimensions of “collaborative coaching,” a learner-centered approach to coaching that emphasizes covenant-building, deep spiritual curiosity, care-filled listening, ethical awareness, attention to bodies and places, parallel learning, careful sermon analysis, and the art of asking excellent questions. In the final section of the book, practitioners provide examples of this kind of coaching in practice.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN : UOM:39015057354642