The Heart of the Preacher


Book Description

You can teach the craft, but you must first form the heart. Many preachers want to preach better, but they don't always know how to go about improving, and most books on preaching focus on the mechanics of the craft. But preaching involves more than the steps from a text to a sermon, because every time a preacher stands up to preach, their character shines through—for better or for worse. In The Heart of the Preacher, Rick Reed focuses on the personal heart preparation required before any preacher is ready to preach. He explores issues preachers often wrestle with—like discouragement, insecurity, and pride. He then offers practices to fight these challenges and form a heart that carries the fruit of the Spirit into the pulpit. It takes more than a good speaker to preach. It takes a Spirit-filled person. This book will help you check your heart and cultivate the most important aspect of preaching: your character.




The Preacher's Wife


Book Description

Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket







Preaching in the Purple Zone


Book Description

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.




A Promptuary for Preachers


Book Description

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.




Pistol Packin' Preachers


Book Description

A writer once denounced the Lone Star State as "where the Godly could battle 'the devil' on his own ground." Circuit riders and other early preachers confronted dangerous outlaws, Indians, wild animals, and Texas' unpredictable weather. Their stories chronicle bringing one element of civilization to early explorers and settlers. Some fought for Texas independence with a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other; others worked as drovers and preached along the cattle trails. One served as a deputy sheriff; others, as fort chaplains. European immigrant ministers and Negro preachers formed an unlikely mix in East Texas. The frontier lured them into all the danger, adventure, and challenge of others who faced the "devil in Texas." Circuit riders had preached to all regions of Texas before they "hung up their spurs and went to the camp meeting in the sky."




The Preaching Life


Book Description

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.










The Path of Life


Book Description

There are so many worrying situations in the world today that draws man's attention. For instance the world has become a play ground for wars, hunger, diseases, poverty, killings, injustices and other tragedies; putting man at the receiving end of these unfriendly experiences. As a result, it becomes man's desire to free himself from these situations in his journey through life. Therefore, the book "The Path of Life" is designed as a resource for man to bring his worries in his petitions to God who is the only hope for solutions to his problems. It is designed to be the "Petitioners verses" which readers could use as resource to bring their cases to God's attention on individual basis. This is why every title in the book is classified under Introduction, Petition, Message and Prayers with the aim that as they use this book, readers will become more intimate with God even in the face of their problems and realise that God is closer than they ever thought. Indeed, this will become very evident as their petitions are answered to change their lives all to the Glory of God. Check out some of the titles in the book like "In the beginning and as you go", "I never knew", "Forgiveness is the key", Because God loves us", "My God will arise", "My child", "They cannot understand", "Homeward Bound" and "Final Destination" for a taste of what "The Path of Life" is about. May the Lord speedily answer your petition as you use this material in Jesus name.