Each year this award-winning preacher set himself the discipline of preparing a Christmas Eve sermon for people who had no previous exposure to the Christian message. The result: sermons about flying saucers, aliens, teddy bears and angels and above all about the costly love of God for the human race.
"In the midst of the struggles of our personal history and of world history, it is easy for us to whom it has been revealed to forget that the Angels are singing. So we come here to have our ears tuned and our sight refined that we might hear this song and see this invisible glory."
Each year this award-winning preacher set himself the discipline of preparing a Christmas Eve sermon for people who had no previous exposure to the...
This book is for people who are new to a form of Christian worship that is centered on the weekly celebration of the Holy Communion. It will be a help to people moving from a non-liturgical church to a more liturgical church and to those contemporary Christians who are seeking an ancient-future form of Christian worship. Those who are familiar with Eucharistic worship will encounter new treasures that have been hiding in plain sight. The book follows carefully the service of Holy Communion as it is celebrated in a local congregation, describing what is done and why. The service chosen is from...
This book is for people who are new to a form of Christian worship that is centered on the weekly celebration of the Holy Communion. It will be a help...
Are children little angels or little devils, or are they like their parents a little of each? Must they go through a definite moment of conversion or can they grow up always knowing themselves to be Christian? How do theological ideas about human nature, sin and salvation affect how parents see and treat children? Starting with Horace Bushnell's classic 19th-century study, Christian Nurture, Leander Harding brings the discussion up to date with the help of insights from contemporary psychoanalytic thought and Family Systems Theory. Included are practical suggestions for parents and parishes....
Are children little angels or little devils, or are they like their parents a little of each? Must they go through a definite moment of conversion or ...
About the Contributor(s): Leander S. Harding is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church. After twenty-six years of parish ministry he now teaches Pastoral Theology at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition. He is the author of In the Breaking of the Bread.
About the Contributor(s): Leander S. Harding is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church. After twenty-six years of parish ministry he now teach...
