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From Pulpit to Fiction; Sermonic Texts and Fictive Transformations
ISBN: 9783039113286 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the authority and power of a -sermonic text- through its ?ctive qualities. The author argues that a sermonic text functions in the manner of a work of ?ction and creates an event and space that forces a decision upon the reader. The text creates a place where the Kingdom of God is about to happen and is happening. Consequently, the reader is forced to make a decision. Will he or she -go and do likewise-, or reject the Kingdom of God? In this way, a sermonic text acts like a work of ?ction and invites a reader into its space and event. If the reader of the sermonic text...
This book examines the authority and power of a -sermonic text- through its ?ctive qualities. The author argues that a sermonic text functions in the ...
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Organic Homiletic: Samuel T. Coleridge, Henry G. Davis, and the New Homiletic
ISBN: 9780820486109 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organic form theory of Romanticism helps writers, artists, and preachers free themselves from potentially limiting norms and rules of form. Organic Homiletic: Samuel T. Coleridge, Henry G. Davis, and the New Homiletic will inspire preachers to express their individual voices and create their own authentic forms by offering preachers innovative methods to creatively imitate, blend, and mix a wide variety of sermon forms. The book is a motivator for preachers to intuitively discover sermon content in the rhetorical context of a given preaching situation, and to develop that content...
Organic form theory of Romanticism helps writers, artists, and preachers free themselves from potentially limiting norms and rules of form. Organic...
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The Challenge of Preaching
ISBN: 9781907713118 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book strongly challenges the notion that there is no place for preaching in the contemporary world. It sets out the theological case for preaching and then goes on to describe what constitutes good preaching. It does not focus on techniques to be used but on the nature of the task and the character of the one who preaches. The good preacher works to build a bridge between the listeners and the truth being proclaimed. To be able to do this, the preacher must study both the Scriptures and the today's world. The book offers some suggestions on how to go about preparing a sermon and calls... This book strongly challenges the notion that there is no place for preaching in the contemporary world. It sets out the theological case for preac... |
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Absolute Surrender
ISBN: 9781603864879 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Unabridged Edition of Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses; Sermons Include: Absolute Surrender - The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love - Separated Unto The Holy Ghost - Peters Repentance - Impossible With Man, Possible With God - Wretched Man That I Am - Having Begun In The Spirit - Kept By The Power Of God - Ye Are The Branches
An Unabridged Edition of Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses; Sermons Include: Absolute Surrender - The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love - Separated Unt...
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31,80 |
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Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners; Sunday Service Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church
ISBN: 9781433117794 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners: Sunday Service Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church explores the reaction of the congregation to Sunday preaching. Preaching has been a significant activity since the founding of the Lutheran Church in Madagascar in 1867. However, hardly any research has been carried out to explore this interesting field, particularly from the listeners perspective. This book is an attempt to remedy this situation.
With the aid of methodology from rhetorical studies, adapted into homiletics, this book investigates: How do the character of the... Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners: Sunday Service Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church explores the reaction of the congregati...
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Newman's Visionary Georgic: A Reading of Parochial Sermons
ISBN: 9780820463773 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman s Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the visionary georgic, a subset of the genre whose exemplars include Lucretius De rerum natura and Wordsworth s The Prelude. Newman s visionary georgic defends Christian revelation against the rationalistic subjectivism that tended to displace religious faith by Wordsworthian self-exploration, leading to the Victorian redefinition of literature as secular scripture. Subjects discussed include Newman s relations with readers, his sermonic...
Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman s Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the vis...
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Our Sufficiency Is of God: Essays on Preaching in Honor of Gardner C. Taylor
ISBN: 9780881464450 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need on the part of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials backed by tested experience, reverent scholarship, and creative insights. The essays in this book are of that cast, and each essay is the work of an experienced practitioner-scholar in the field of preaching. The chapters focus on the preaching ministry of Gardner Calvin Taylor, in whose honor the volume was prepared. They are offered, with affection and esteem, by colleagues, students, and friends, fellow preachers all, whose own attempts to speak...
Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need on the part of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials bac...
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When Heaven Stands Open, Year B: Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship
ISBN: 9781620320013 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C of the Revised Common Lectionary, and a fourth, the rst such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade Books). Each volume consists of a Call to Worship, Opening Prayer, Call to Confession, Prayer of Confession, and Declaration of Forgiveness, with Years A-C including additional elements (A Prayer in Preparation for Worship, The Offering, Prayer of Dedication, and...
Description: Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B...
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114,03 |
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Telling the Whole Story: Reading and Preaching Old Testament Stories
ISBN: 9781620322178 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telling the Whole Story is both a book about preaching and reading the narratives of the Hebrew Bible. John C. Holbert (PhD in Hebrew Bible) was a longtime teacher of preaching and Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, having retired in 2012 after thirty-three years. In this volume he combines his two skills of careful narrative reading and imaginative story preaching to offer the first comprehensive look at this particular kind of sermon proclamation. The reader will also find here an introduction to the long history of story preaching in the history of...
Telling the Whole Story is both a book about preaching and reading the narratives of the Hebrew Bible. John C. Holbert (PhD in Hebrew Bible) was a lon...
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Lectionary Worship Aids: For Use With The Revised Common Lectionary: Cycle B Series III
ISBN: 9781556736223 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hear the good news The victory that defeats the world is our faith, for who is victor over evil, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Friends, believe the good news "
-- Declaration of God's Forgiveness for Easter 2 "Lectionary Worship Aids," Series III, Cycle B, follows in the CSS tradition of providing creative worship resources for congregations. Series III is based on the Revised Common Lectionary and New Revised Standard Version. Each Sunday offers: - Listing of the four lectionary texts for the day - Call to Worship - Prayer of... "Hear the good news The victory that defeats the world is our faith, for who is victor over evil, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of G...
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Stewards of the Mysteries of God: Preaching the Old Testament--And the New
ISBN: 9781620325513 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: One of our best known biblical interpreters offers essays and sermons meant to assist preachers in their interpretation and explication of biblical texts. Often neglected in preaching, the Old Testament is a particular focus of attention, but only in the context of the wholeness of Scripture. Questions addressed in this volume include the following: How does one approach and preach the Old Testament at Easter? What are the contemporary issues or dimensions in preaching the Ten Commandments? And how does the preacher hold the Old Testament and the New Testament in proclaiming...
Description: One of our best known biblical interpreters offers essays and sermons meant to assist preachers in their interpretation and explication o...
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Preaching Without Heart: Returning to the True Heart of Ministry
ISBN: 9781449790592 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the current zeitgeist, the actualization of 21st Century ministry has increasingly become a daunting enterprise.The confluence of the intellectual, moral, and cultural tenor of the times causes us to examine the assessment of ministry motives. We must ask ourselves What is our priority? Style or substance? Conviction or compromise? Have too many preachers augmented their authenticity, gyped themselves of their genuineness, and become maligned by misguided motives? Such is the delineation and discourse so denoted and unearthed by the dynamism of Dr. Aaron Chapman. Pastor. Preacher.... Given the current zeitgeist, the actualization of 21st Century ministry has increasingly become a daunting enterprise.The confluence of the intelle... |
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A Sermon Workbook: Exercises in the Art and Craft of Preaching
ISBN: 9781426757785 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every preacher, from the novice to the most experienced, needs fresh inspiration to build new skills and to inject creativity into their sermon preparation. A Sermon Workbook addresses the essentials for effective preaching in our multi-tasking, multi-ethnic, sound-bite society. It offers theological clarity about why we preach, and what matters most. The esteemed teaching team of Tom Troeger and Nora Tisdale invite the reader into their Yale Divinity School classroom, guiding the reader to build skill upon skill, working through inventive and engaging exercises. The... Every preacher, from the novice to the most experienced, needs fresh inspiration to build new skills and to inject creativity into their sermon pre... |
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Sermon Treks: Trailways to Creative Preaching
ISBN: 9781426763861 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lectionary is a helpful homiletical tool. But there are times when lectionary preaching does not meet a congregation's needs. Sermon Treks offers preachers and students an invigorating selection of new sermon-planning trails, for use as sermon series or for single sermons. The options presented here are practical and theologically responsible. Some are rooted in ancient forms of proclamation; others are new. All provide clear but creative guidance for the preacher, and a path that will lead to more effective sermons.
The lectionary is a helpful homiletical tool. But there are times when lectionary preaching does not meet a congregation's needs. Sermon Treks
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If You Need a Minister
ISBN: 9780890984918 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hiring a minister is one of the most important decisions that church leaders can make. It affects the health, stability, and growth of the local congregation. Nothing is better than a minister and congregation that match one another. Few things are worse than poorly planned hires. Wil Perkins has explored the ups and downs of 25 years of ministry and outlined a 12-step process that will help guide congregations to the right minister and ministers to the right churches. A 12-Step Process for Hiring a Minister (That You Wouldn't Mind Keeping) Wil Perkins has been preaching since 1988. He...
Hiring a minister is one of the most important decisions that church leaders can make. It affects the health, stability, and growth of the local congr...
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Final Verdict
ISBN: 9781466993334 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bible warns that everyone who does not believe will learn with a shudder that God is indeed angry. The next realization will be that it's personal, that God is angry with me. By then it will be too late. I seek through the Holy Spirit to introduce you to the ramifications of biblical truth to your personal eternity. This is universal to all people of any era, any race or color, any language, any culture, and any nation. God is in total control whether we can see it or not. With God there is only one race-the human race. As individual human beings created by God, we all will face the Last...
The Bible warns that everyone who does not believe will learn with a shudder that God is indeed angry. The next realization will be that it's personal...
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The Joy of Preaching
ISBN: 9781936912704 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James McReynolds has been my friend for more than 40 years. He and I first met when we were young staff members for our denominations-he a Southern Baptist, and I a Methodist. We were both working in communication-he a Southern Baptist and I for the Methodist Board of Evangelism. We were both pursuing doctoral studies at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. He was born to be a communicator. More than this, he was born to be a preacher. --Harold Bales For my friend, encourager, and colleague in Christ, Jim McReynolds About 15 years ago, I received my calling from...
James McReynolds has been my friend for more than 40 years. He and I first met when we were young staff members for our denominations-he a Southern Ba...
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Making the Timeless Word Timely: A Primer for Preachers
ISBN: 9781573126601 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There is a simple formula for sermon preparation that creates messages that apply and engage whether your parish is rural or urban, young or old, rich or poor, five thousand members or fifty," writes Michael Brown in the preface to Making the Timeless Word Timely. The other part of the task, of course, involves being creative and insightful enough to know how to take the general formula for sermon preparation and make it particular in its impact on a specific congregation. Michael Brown guides the reader though the formula and the skills to employ it with excellence and integrity. He also...
"There is a simple formula for sermon preparation that creates messages that apply and engage whether your parish is rural or urban, young or old, ric...
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No Longer Bound: A Theology of Reading and Preaching
ISBN: 9781620322901 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description:
No Longer Bound is about the intersection of reading comprehension and interpretation that leads to the development of a powerful and transformative sermon. Reading facilitates the interpretive process, which is the essence of any sermon. The sermon is an interpretation of an interpretation and as such presents itself as a new gospel message. The ability to write and preach a sermon is an exercise in freedom. The book is grounded in a narrative theological form that begins with the authors experience and filters that experience through the lens of hermeneutic philosophy and... Description:
No Longer Bound is about the intersection of reading comprehension and interpretation that leads to the development of a powerful and... |
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Messages from the Lord
ISBN: 9781626975545 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carl R. King, Jr. was born July 15, 1963 in Harlem, N.Y. After his high school graduation in 1980, he continued his education at the University of Charleston, W.Va., Pace University, N.Y, New York, and Shawnee State University, in Portsmouth, OH, majoring in Medical Technology, Computer Science, and Sociology respectively. He returned to New York, working in the Wall Street District as a Junior Accountant. He is currently a Manager of Accounting in Hollywood, CA Elder King, a licensed/ordained minister with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc., was baptized in the name of Jesus at...
Carl R. King, Jr. was born July 15, 1963 in Harlem, N.Y. After his high school graduation in 1980, he continued his education at the University of Cha...
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