Book Description
In "Preaching Is Believing, " Allen calls for preachers to help congregations cultivate a systematic approach to Christian faith and life by bringing systematic theology directly into the pulpit.
Author : Ronald J. Allen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664223304
In "Preaching Is Believing, " Allen calls for preachers to help congregations cultivate a systematic approach to Christian faith and life by bringing systematic theology directly into the pulpit.
Author : James MacDonald
Publisher : Crossway Bibles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781581346220
Amends the doubts and misconceptions held by many regarding the infallibility, reliability, and historicity of the Bible as the inspired Word of God.
Author : John Stott
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1444790080
Is preaching dead - or at least dying? In a digital age, where congregations have unprecedented access to resources, do we still need sermons? John Stott's I BELIEVE IN PREACHING has been essential reading for ministers, students and lay preachers for over three decades. Its message is as relevant today as ever. 'I do believe in preaching. . . I believe that nothing is better calculated to restore health and vitality to the Church or to lead its members into maturity in Christ than a recovery of true, biblical, contemporary preaching.' John Stott This edition also contains a brand new introduction form the original series editor Michael Green.
Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0698195094
Pastor, preacher, and New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shares his wisdom on communicating the Christian faith from the pulpit as well as from the coffee shop. Most Christians—including pastors—struggle to talk about their faith in a way that applies the power of the Christian gospel to change people’s lives. Timothy Keller is known for his insightful, down-to-earth sermons and talks that help people understand themselves, encounter Jesus, and apply the Bible to their lives. In this accessible guide for pastors and laypeople alike, Keller helps readers learn to present the Christian message of grace in a more engaging, passionate, and compassionate way.
Author : Doug Pagitt
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310263638
This author and pastor offers an invitation to the kind of preaching that "creates followers of God who serve the world well and live the invitation to the rhythm of God."
Author : Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 156101074X
Like Annie Dillard's The Writing Life, Taylor emphasizes the holy dimensions of ordinary life and describes the essentials of faith with insight and humor, touching on the vocations, imagination, worship, sacraments, ministry and the Bible as they relate to the life of faith.
Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0525954155
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.
Author : Robert Farrar Capon
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1997-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467428817
What is the foundation of good preaching? How should preachers prepare themselves to faithfully and effectively address the church? And, just as importantly, what ought congregants, who come to church to hear a word from God, hope for from their preachers? These are often asked — and often answered — questions. But Robert Farrar Capon tackles them with a freshness and a frankness that make both the questions and the answers new. In Part 1 of the book, "The Bedrock of Preaching," Capon discusses how essential it is to have "a passion for the Passion" (to believe passionately in the Good News of salvation in Christ), how to overcome the stumbling blocks to genuinely accepting grace, and how to relinquish a false sense of control over our salvation. This part of the book also has important things to say to those of us who listen to sermons and who look to the pulpit for words of grace and hope that are truly meaningful to our lives today. In Part 2, "The Practice of Preaching," Capon concentrates on the mechanics of preaching in anything but a mechanical way. He begins by discussing the ingredients of preaching, emphasizing the importance of not just reading but really hearing the Word in the original Greek and Hebrew, and offers some pointed comments on the Common Lectionary. He then goes on to illustrate how to preach effectively from notes, giving specific, day-by-day suggestions for preparation. He also shows, using the full text of one of his sermons as an example, how to preach from a more fully written manuscript and explains how to move from first notes to final notes for a sermon, again using some of his own notes as an example. In Capon's creative hands these instructions are not just a nuts-and-bolts exercise; they are lively, challenging lessons in preaching that, for all their practical advice, never lose touch with the center of preaching and belief — the astonishing grace of Jesus Christ.
Author : T. D. Jakes
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0768491568
Let your heart be warmed as the oil of T.D. Jakes' teaching flows from your mind to your spirit. The balm in this book will soothe all manner of traumas, tragedies, and disappointments. For the single parent and the battered wife, for the abused girl and the insecure woman, there is a cure for the crisis! In this soft word for the sensitive ear, there is a deep cleansing for those inaccessible areas of the feminine heart. This book will help to fight back the infections of life. Woman, Thou Art Loosed! will break the bands off the neck of every woman who dares to read it!
Author : John D. Hannah
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310237866
This insightful history explores the stereotype of Dallas Theological Seminary as an anti-intellectual stronghold of fundamentalism and dispensational premillennialism. The tenures of the school s five presidents reveal the tensions that DTS, a blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, has experienced amid changes in American religious and cultural life."