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In this wonderful collection of essays, stories, devotions, and random musings, Mark Wilbanks displays the wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of a pastoral and preaching career spanning half a century. His commentary on and insights into life and a flawed humanity are pithy, poignant, and frequently hilarious. He will make you laugh and cry ... sometimes in the same paragraph! But at the heart of all his stories is the reminder that life is a precious...
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Countless preachers have turned to the Zondervan Pastor's Annual to save them time in sermon and service preparation. This tried-and-true resource makes your demanding job as a pastor a lot easier. Use its contents as is, or tailor it to fit your unique approach.
The Zondervan 2021 Pastor's Annual supplies you with:
• Morning and evening services for every Sunday of the year
• Sermon topics and texts fully indexed
• Definitive and usable sermon...
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Focusing on passages about women in the Bible and feminine imagery of God,The Women's Lectionaryreimagines the liturgical calendar of preaching for one year. These women are daughters, wives, and mothers. They are also strong leaders, evil queens, and wicked stepmothers. They are disciples, troublemakers, and prophetesses. Ashley Wilcox explores how the feminine descriptions of God in the Bible are similarly varied-how does it change our understanding...
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The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.
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This wonderful collection of sermons by renowned preacher, author, and speaker Barbara Brown Taylor is based on the Gospel of Matthew. Each of the fifteen sermons, three of them appearing here for the first time in print, is based on a reading from Matthew, including "Exceeding Righteousness" (Matthew 5:17-20), "The Problem with Miracles" (14:13-21), "Family Fights" (18:15-20), "Once More from the Heart" (18:21-35), "Beginning at the End" (20:1-16),...
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In my observation of the lives of believers, and in my personal experience, I have been very deeply impressed with one thought. It is, that our prayer for the mighty working of the Holy Spirit through us and around us can only be powerfully answered as His indwelling in every believer is more clearly acknowledged and lived out. We have the Holy Spirit within us: only he who is faithful in the lesser will receive the greater. 'As we first yield ourselves...
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Le livre de l'Ecclésiaste nous présente une approche innovante du travail, en mettant en avant la valeur et le sens de nos efforts dans la vie. Jour après jour, il nous est rappelé d'être diligents et d'apprécier tout le bien qui découle de notre travail. Nous éprouvons une joie profonde lorsque nous honorons Dieu par l'utilisation productive de nos compétences et de notre temps. Nous voulons découvrir comment trouver le juste équilibre...
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This popular book by N. T. Wright offers thirteen powerful meditations and sermons that challenge readers to assess anew the meaning of Jesus' death and resurrection and the life of the Spirit in Jesus' followers today.
In Part One, "The Crown of Thorns," Wright considers not the customary seven last words that Jesus spoke from the cross but, rather, seven words that various people spoke to Jesus on the cross - people like Mary and the Roman centurion,...
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Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so. Offered here are thirty-one of Pastor Bonhoeffer's sermons, in new English translations, which he preached at various times of the year and in a variety of different settings. Each is introduced by Bonhoeffer translator Isabel Best who also provides a brief...
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The objective of this book is to address the following premises: Premise number one: The purpose and aim of Christian preaching/teaching is to produce spiritually faithful, biblically capable, and productively active disciples of Jesus Christ. Premise number two: Conventional preaching/teaching philosophies and methods are not achieving the desired effects in far too many cases. This is evidenced by the numbers of lukewarm churches and spiritually...
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Countless preachers have turned to the Zondervan Pastor's Annual to save them time in sermon and service preparation. This tried-and-true resource makes your demanding job as a pastor a lot easier. Use its contents as is, or tailor it to fit your unique approach.
The Zondervan 2023 Pastor's Annual supplies you with:
• Morning and evening services for every Sunday of the year
• Sermon topics and texts fully indexed
• Definitive and usable sermon...
13) Anniversary Sermon, Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, McKeesport, Pennsylvania on Sabbath M
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Anniversary Sermon: Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, M'Keesport, Pa. on Sabbath Morning, November 17th, 1861. "I will mention the lovingkindness of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindness." Isaiah 63:7.
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World War I changed Karl Barth's theology forever. In this book William Klempa presents for the first time in English thirteen sermons that offer Barth's unique view and commentary on the Great War. Barth saw the war as "a unique time of God,� believing it to represent God's judgment on militarism. The sermons reveal a deep strain of theological wrestling with the war's meaning, as...
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The Christian's Trust: Memorial Sermon delivered at the funeral of Benjamin S. Walcott, New York Mills, Oneida, N.Y., January 16, 1862. By Chester Fitch, Pastor of Presbyterian Church. "Asleep in Jesus." "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." - 2 Timothy 1:12.
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On Good Friday, March 30, 2018, Fleming Rutledge preached on the Seven Last Words of Jesus at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. Her seven meditations, delivered over the course of three hours, were met with rave reviews. Printed in full in this volume, these sermons display Rutledge's usual combination of resolute orthodoxy and pastoral wisdom-at once traditional and fresh.
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This collection of sermons features the work of Horace Bushnell (1802-18776), an American Congregational minister and theologian. He was born in Connecticut and attended Yale University, graduating in 1827. In 1833 Bushnell was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained until 1859, resigning for health reasons. As a preacher, Dr Bushnell was very effective. Though not a dramatic orator, he was original,...
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El estudio de la profecía ha sido desacreditado muchas veces por la insistencia en relacionar muchas de ellas con sucesos actuales, por ejemplo, el edicto de tolerancia de Constantino fue considerado como el milenio, Jerónimo creyó que el regreso de Cristo estaba próximo porque el imperio romano estaba en ruinas, Agustín dijo que el milenio era el ministerio de la iglesia católica. El Papa ha sido considerado el cuerno pequeño de Daniel, es...
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The homilies in this volume were all delivered by Fr. Robert Mitchell Jr., a priest in the Old Catholic tradition during Masses and Holy Communion services between the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, June 12, 2022 and The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Sunday 11/26/23 in St. Barachiel Chapel in Richmond, VA. They reflect his Old Catholic stance on matters of faith and his deep appreciation for the "quadriga" -- the four...
20) Three Sermons
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"Three Sermons" by Patrick Henry Greenleaf is a collection of three sermons by the well-known American churchman of the mid-19th century, and includes:
• Sunday, a Christian Festival. A Sermon Delivered in St. Paul's Church, November 14, 1858. By Patrick Henry Greenleaf, Rector of St .Paul's Church.
• The Office of Music in the Church of God. A Sermon Delivered in St. Paul's Church, Cincinnati, on the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, 1856. By P.H....
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