Author: Bruce Mawhinney Publisher: Kregel Publications ISBN: 9780825431982 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 266
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(Foreword by Jay Adams)"If more books on preaching were as interesting as this, then perhaps we would have more interesting preachers." --Howard Hendricks
Author: Jim Cymbala Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458758206 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 262
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The Times Are Urgent God Is on the Move Now Is the Moment to ... ask God to ignite his fire in your soul! Pastor Jim Cymbala believes that Jesus wants to renew his people-to call us back from spiritual dead ends, apathy, and lukewarm religion. Cymbala knows the difference firsthand. Thirty-five years ago his own church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle, was a struggling congregation of twenty. Then they began to pray ... God began to move ... street-hardened lives by the hundreds were changed by the love of Christ ... and today they are more than ten thousand strong. The story of what happened to this broken-down church in one of America's toughest neighborhoods points the way to new spiritual vitality in the church and in your own life. Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire shows what the Holy Spirit can do when believers get serious about prayer and the gospel. As this compelling book reveals, God moves in life-changing ways when we set aside our own agendas, take him at his word, and listen for his voice.
Author: William H. Willimon Publisher: Abingdon Press ISBN: 142670013X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 173
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Preachers dread the arrival of Easter, because these holy days bring the daunting task of finding new ways to tell the old stories everyone's heard so many times before. But what if it were only we preachers who are bored with these stories? asks Will Willimon. What if people keep showing up at Easter because the story of God's victory over death continues to hold power for them? What if the point were not to capitulate to the culture's insatiable appetite for novelty, but to tell the old stories faithfully, trusting in the power of the Spirit to make the text, the congregation, and yes, even the preacher come alive again in the preaching event? With Willimon's Undone by Easter pastors can face the prospect of preaching their next Easter sermon with joy and confidence rather than worry about finding something to say.
Author: Craig A. Loscalzo Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 9780830818631 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 184
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Craig A. Loscalzo shows how to develop evangelistic sermons that will appeal to today's audiences. He includes a rationale for evangelistic preaching, sample sermons and lots of practical advice.
Author: Leonard Sweet Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310515408 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 403
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A Groundbreaking Resource for Preaching If the church wishes to converse effectively with a culture, it must learn the culture’s language. Today, shifts in technology mean that language is increasingly one of symbols and metaphors, stories and images—not words. So what does this mean for the sermon, that long-standing, word-based tradition of Christianity? In this ground-breaking resource, bestselling author Leonard Sweet offers an alternative to traditional models of preaching, one that is fitting to a new culture and a new mode of thinking. The first book of its kind to move preaching beyond its pulpit-centric fixation and toward more interactive, participatory modes of communication, Sweet presents both a challenge and a path forward for a church struggling to maintain its relevance in a post-modern, media-saturated culture.
Author: Dale Ralph Davis Publisher: Mentor ISBN: 9781845501921 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 0
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"There is no more gifted expositor of the Old Testament in our day than Ralph Davis. His book not only brings scholarly research to bear on the subject, but also reflects his many years of preaching week after week through the OT. What a gift to the church to have such a fine book." Richard Pratt
Author: Henry T. Blackaby Publisher: B&H Publishing Group ISBN: 0805447806 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 338
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Revised with nearly half of its material newly written, "Fresh Encounter" is a discussion of how God brings spiritual revival to individuals and the church.
Author: Edward K. Rowell Publisher: ISBN: 9780801091018 Category : Homiletical illustrations Languages : en Pages : 0
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From Leadership, the foremost professional journal for church leaders, comes a collection of contemporary illustrations--extensively cross-indexed for speakers, teachers, writers, and preachers.
Author: Leah D. Schade Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538119897 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 261
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Preaching in the Purple Zone is a resource for helping the church understand the challenges facing parish pastors, while encouraging and equipping preachers to address the vital justice issues of our time.This book provides practical instruction for navigating the hazards of prophetic preaching with tested strategies and prudent tactics grounded in biblical and theological foundations. Key to this endeavor is using a method of civil discourse called “deliberative dialogue” for finding common values among politically diverse parishioners. Unique to this book is instruction on using the sermon-dialogue-sermon process developed by the author that expands the pastor’s level of engagement on justice issues with parishioners beyond the single sermon. This book equips clergy to help their congregations respectfully engage in deliberation about “hot topics,” find the values that bind them together, and respond faithfully to God’s Word.
Author: Bruce Mawhinney
Author: Jim Cymbala
Author: William H. Willimon
Author: Craig A. Loscalzo
Author: Leonard Sweet
Author: Dale Ralph Davis
Author: Henry T. Blackaby
Author: Stephen Nelson Rummage
Author: Edward K. Rowell
Author: Leah D. Schade