Author: Thomas HannamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Pulpit Assistant
Author: Thomas HannamThe Pulpit Assistant: Containing about Three Hundred Outlines Or Skeletons of Sermons, Chiefly Extracted from Various Authors: with an Essay on the Composition of a Sermon
Author: Thomas HannamThe Pulpit Cyclopædia, and Christian Minister's Companion
Author: Jabez BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Preaching
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Pulpit Cyclopædia
Author: Jabez BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Beyond the Pulpit
Author: Lisa J. ShaverPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822977427
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women's participation helped the church to become the nation's largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their official roles diminished during that time. In Beyond the Pulpit, Lisa Shaver examines Methodist periodicals as a rhetorical space to which women turned to find, and make, self-meaning. In 1818, Methodist Magazine first published "memoirs" that eulogized women as powerful witnesses for their faith on their deathbeds. As Shaver observes, it was only in death that a woman could achieve the status of minister. Another Methodist publication, the Christian Advocate, was America's largest circulated weekly by the mid-1830s. It featured the "Ladies' Department," a column that reinforced the canon of women as dutiful wives, mothers, and household managers. Here, the church also affirmed women in the important rhetorical and evangelical role of domestic preacher. Outside the "Ladies Department," women increasingly appeared in "little narratives" in which they were portrayed as models of piety and charity, benefactors, organizers, Sunday school administrators and teachers, missionaries, and ministers' assistants. These texts cast women into nondomestic roles that were institutionally sanctioned and widely disseminated. By 1841, the Ladies' Repository and Gatherings of the West was engaging women in discussions of religion, politics, education, science, and a variety of intellectual debates. As Shaver posits, by providing a forum for women writers and readers, the church gave them an official rhetorical space and the license to define their own roles and spheres of influence. As such, the periodicals of the Methodist church became an important public venue in which women's voices were heard and their identities explored.
In Search of Paul
Author: Tony CookePublisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 1680318268
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Stand on the shoulders of giants!Have you ever wished you could have a mentor like the Apostle Paul—someone trustworthy to guide your spiritual development and ministry? Tony Cooke, author, teacher, and student of church history, has assembled a panel of the greatest Christian spiritual leaders of all time, curating a profound, yet...
From Pew to Pulpit
Author: Clifton Floyd GuthriePublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 0687066603
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching for lay preachers, bivocational pastors, and others newly arrived in the pulpit. Recent years have seen a considerable increase in the amount of financial resources required to support a full-time pastor in the local congregation. In addition, large numbers of full-time, seminary trained clergy are retiring, without commensurate numbers of new clergy able to take their place. As a result of these trends, a large number of lay preachers and bivocational pastors have assumed the principal responsibility for filling the pulpit week by week in local churches. Most of these individuals, observes Clifton Guthrie, can draw on a wealth of life experiences, as well as strong intuitive skills in knowing what makes a good sermon, having listened to them much of their lives. What they often don't bring to the pulpit, however, is specific, detailed instruction in the how-tos of preaching. That is precisely what this brief, practical guide to preaching has to offer. Written with the needs of those for whom preaching is not their sole or primary occupation in mind, it begins by emphasizing what every preacher brings to the pulpit: an idea of what makes a sermon particularly moving or memorable to them. From there the book moves into short chapters on choosing an appropriate biblical text or sermon topic, learning how to listen to one's first impressions of what a text means, moving from text or topic to the sermon itself while keeping the listeners needs firmly in mind, making thorough and engaging use of stories in the sermon, and delivering with passion and conviction. The book concludes with helpful suggestions for resources, including Bibles, commentaries, other print resources and websites.
The class leader's assistant
Author: John BatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Class Leader's Assistant. Containing Upwards of 470 Views of Christian Doctrine, Duty, Experience, and Practice
Author: John Bate (Wesleyan Minister.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Minister’s Helper Manual
Author: Pastor Michael C. Champion Sr.Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728371082
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This is A Necessary Book for any Christian, especially those called into Ministry. 2nd Timothy 2:15 tell us to study God’s word to be equipped and ready to meet every challenge and high thing that exalts itself against the living God. Be prepare, be alert, be astute. Remain faithful. This book is a toll that will make you sharper, more prepared in the vocation of a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.