Author : Meg Lassiat
Publisher : United Methodist General Board of Higher Education
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780938162636
This book is a compilation of information about the call to ministry and the avenues The United Methodist Church offers to embody that call. It is based in the concept of servant ministry and servant leadership presented by the Council of Bishops.
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Methodists
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Author : Gayle Carlton Felton
Publisher : Upper Room Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881776580
By Water and the Spirit, a 6-session study guide for use in small groups, contains the full text of the paper "By Water and the Spirit," which describes the United Methodist understanding of baptism approved by the 1996 General Conference. This booklet serves as a resource for congregational leaders who are helping members make connections between the baptismal covenant and discipleship in daily life.
Author : Tanya Marie Eustace Campen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725296225
Children are theologians with the ability to recognize and respond to God's presence in their lives. Listening to the stories of children helps us to understand how children make meaning out of God's presence and reveals tools that children use as they claim their faith. With this knowledge, adults can then better promote and encourage children's spiritual growth. Offering a theology of childhood, Holy Work with Children values the child's role in the Body of Christ and God's transformative work. Dr. Campen invites readers to consider: -How does listening to children teach us about God and faith formation? -What wisdom and insight do children offer to all of us by how they seek understanding of God and God's presence in their lives? -How can we guide and support the children in our communities in this work? Drawing on direct research with children as they think theologically, this book extends both theological and educational research. Holy Work with Children offers practical examples for how congregational leaders, parents, and those who journey with children can encourage and guide them as they make theological meaning and discover ways to respond to God's grace and love making a difference in their communities and the world.
Author : Ruth Haley Barton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830873937
When we choose retreat we make a generous investment in our friendship with Christ. Seasoned spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton gently and eloquently leads us into an exploration of retreat as a key practice that opens us to God, guiding us through seven invitations to retreat. You will discover how to say yes to God's winsome invitation to greater freedom and surrender.
Author : Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Texas Annual Conference
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Methodist Church
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Author : Charles Henry Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 1898
Category : African American Christians
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Author : Leah D. Schade
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1538119897
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.
Author : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830847979
Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ, showing that when the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society as a whole.
Author : Harold J. Recinos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1666731463
Recinos’s love for poetry began on the streets of the South Bronx and the experience of being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on them. On the streets, Recinos discovered a world of extreme poverty and drugs, until four years later he was taken into the family of a White Presbyterian minister and guided back into school. In graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended the Nuyorican poets the late Miguel Piñero and Pedro Pietri who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets café. In Where the Sidewalks Meet, Recinos uses poetry like graffiti on public culture, to make references to the invisible in plain sight, and talk about border crossings. These poems delicately string together the disregarded world of excluded, muted, and rejected human beings and “shouts out the names” of those the world only cares to look at sideways.
