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When you stand before your congregation, what do you hope to accomplish when you preach the Word? If people have Bibles and the freedom to read and pray on their own-why do they need you? In short, what do you bring to the table? Author, Pastor, and Professor John Koessler answers those questions and many more. Why does one sermon have a powerful effect on the audience while another falls flat? Why should listeners heed what the preacher says? Is...
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This collection of more than fifty of Fred Craddock's sermons provides a glimpse of a master preacher at work. Amazingly, only one of the sermons was preached from a manuscript written in advance, as Craddock considered a sermon to be an event in the world of sound. As a result, the selections here wonderfully reflect and preserve Craddock's "voice" and engage readers with all the immediacy of the spoken word.
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Most college students struggle tremendously with their bodies.
Numerous issues related to the body plague higher education. Students struggle with sleep, mental health, eating disorders, sexual identity questions, clothing choices, obesity, and alcohol problems, among other concerns. Too often Christian colleges try to meet these challenges with rules instead of setting forth a vision of what it means to steward the body-a precious gift from God...
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Here leading pastors offer specific guidance from both personal and biblical perspectives on themes of vision, desire, integrity, emotions, and transformation. In so doing, the contributors show that the ability to inspire people through preaching flows from one thing: leading them into the presence of Christ. The writers in this book share the bounty of decades of experience to help pastors do just that by delivering more effective and inspirational...
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How does one best make ancient biblical texts pertinent to the 21st Century listener, while still maintaining the integrity of the Scriptures? Interpretation and Applicationis designed to provide guidance on how to interpret and apply God's word honestly and accurately in a sermon. This collection of short interviews, essays, and sermons is from today's best known preacher's including Jeffrey Arthurs, Haddon Robinson, Joshua Harris, David Jackman,...
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Reignite your deepest passion for good preaching. Renew your commitment to developing sermons that work to stimulate, encourage, and motivate your hearers to follow God.
Lloyd John Ogilvie, former U.S. Senate chaplain and longtime pastor of Hollywood Presbyterian Church, will be a strong and motivating companion as he guides you to
• deeply consider who you're preaching to and the needs they have
• answer life-relevant questions through diligent...
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"Hay personas que predican durante una hora y parece que hayan pasado veinte minutos, y hay otras que predican durante veinte minutos y parece que haya pasado una hora. ¿Por qué esa diferencia? Me he pasado toda la vida intentado responder a esta pregunta", afirma Haddon Robinson.
¿Qué podría ser más útil para pastores, maestros y miembros en general de las iglesias que un libro sobre la predicación, escrito por tres grandes y reconocidos...
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Sidney Greidanus's previous two preaching books - The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text and Preaching Christ from the Old Testament - have received wide acclaim. Preaching Christ from Genesis offers more of Greidanus's solid, practical homiletical fare.
Packed with unique features, Preaching Christ from Genesis
• uses the latest scholarly research to analyze twenty-three Genesis narratives
• presents the rhetorical structures and other literary...
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At first glance, preaching and advertising seem worlds apart from one another. One tries to proclaim love of God and neighbor; the other tries to sell you something that you may or may not need. Yet both must compete with other ways we receive and process information in an increasingly distracted world. While most of the time preaching simply tries to muddle through this situation, advertising knows that it must continually relearn how to reclaim...
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Offers insight into the issue of vocation and ministry for a large number of prospective clergy.
Continues the conversation on LGBTQ incorporation into the life of the church.
Along with the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church has been in the vanguard in opening up the option of ordination to holy orders for partnered gay and lesbian people. As a result, many gays and lesbians are considering an option, which just a decade ago, would have...
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Today the Christian faith is moving through one of the greatest sea changes in its two-thousand-year history, and we can no longer assume we know exactly what kind of animal preaching is or ought to be. Choosing the Kingdom is both a work of theology and a how-to guide for preachers who want to rethink both the form and the content of their preaching to move a congregation from maintenance to mission. As a post-Christendom church reorients itself...
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El curso es de carácter no denominación, con el objetivo de ayudar al principiante en la carrera de la predicación y ejercer el llamado en la obra del señor Jesucristo. Los pasos que este curso presenta son básicos y prácticos, funcionan debidamente en el campo ministerial del novel y experimentado predicador.
Dentro del enfoque escritural del curso se indican las ayudas e ilustraciones de Como alcanzar descubrir el método para convencer y...
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Más de ochocientos bosquejos, entre los 5 volúmenes, sobre textos bíblicos seleccionados y bien desarrollados por el profesor Silva, del Instituto Bíblico de Nueva York, quien comenta:
"Muchos creyentes se reunen en grupos para recibir un sermón enlatado, medio cocinado, lleno de palabras y vacio de mensaje. No se puede seguir adormeciendo a los creyentes con la música, los cantos, himnos y coros, la predicación debe de ser viva y exponer...
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FINALLY, a scholarly description of the development of Black preaching in the United States that is accessible to the average reader, but also contributes to the academic conversation about both style and theological content. Written from the perspective of a seasoned practitioner and tenured practical theologian, Thomas surveys Black preaching as it has responded to various social and historical time periods. Starting with the brutality of chattel...
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The preacher's body is a tool for proclamation, a vehicle by which a sermon comes to life. Female preachers, engaged in a task not long their own, know well the added attention directed to their physicality. They can experience ordinary decisions about attire, accessories, hairstyles, and movement as complex, and occasionally precarious, choices around how to bring flesh to their sermons. They can also experience the extraordinary power of their bodies,...
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The question of what to do with the biblical text in the sermon is perennial. Biblical scholarship constantly evolves and grows, making it hard even for biblical scholars themselves to apply the latest insights in their preaching. The average pastor doesn't have time to keep up with the changes in biblical studies and, as a result, often defaults to interpretive methods learned in (increasingly distant) seminary years. Preaching the Word addresses...
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Intentional Preaching, written by Meirwyn Walters, is the handy guide that every preacher needs. In preparing and delivering their sermons, preachers make dozens of decisions, some intentionally, many perhaps less so. Why not make thoughtful decisions for everything that goes into preaching a good sermon? From first words to hand gestures, choosing a text, masterful use of exegesis, captivating illustrations, titles, approaches to reading Scripture,...
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No one preaches in a cultural vacuum.
The message of what God has done in Christ is good news to all, but to have the greatest impact on its hearers-or even to be understood at all-it must be culturally contextualized.
Finding Our Voice speaks clearly to an issue that has largely been ignored: preaching to Asian North American (ANA) contexts. In addition to reworking hermeneutics, theology, and homiletics for these overlooked contexts, Kim and Wong...
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A hands-on resource for all Christians who want to communicate with more passion and power
Tony Campolo and Mary Albert Darling have teamed up to explore the dynamic connection that occurs when spirituality/spiritual practices are combined with effective communication practices. Churches and other religious organizations depend on the ability of their leaders and members to communicate (speak, teach, and preach) within their congregations and beyond....
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In recent years, Steven J. Lawson has been in demand nationwide as a speaker at major conferences, particularly those for pastors. The Kind of Preaching God Blesses is a powerful must-read for every minister who desires to preach God's Word in a way that truly exalts the Lord and nourishes His people.
In 1 Corinthians 2:1-9, the apostle Paul wrote about the keys to effective preaching. In this compact yet dynamic book, readers will learn about...
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