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While urban pastors devote time and energy to all the typical demands of ministry, they also grapple with challenges endemic to city life. Achieving a measure of balance amid these competing demands and responsibilities can be daunting. Using his experiences as a pastor in urban settings for nearly three decades, Roger J. Gench offers pastors a close look at the challenges that come from being involved in urban ministry.
Throughout, he integrates...
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"This book is a clarion call for African American preachers to think more deeply about the aims and ends of their preachingnamely to stop putting so much emphasis on celebratory endings to our sermons and focus more on the substantive content in our sermons. Our so-called celebratory preaching, designed to excite the congregation into action through a highly emotional closing of the sermon, has had the opposite effect. Rather than inducing action,...
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Cleo LaRue is one of the best-loved preachers and writers about preaching. In past volumes, he has brought together great collections of African American preaching to showcase the best preaching from across the country. Here he offers his own insights into what makes for great preaching.
Filled with telling anecdotes, LaRue's book recognizes that while great preaching comes from somewhere, it also must go somewhere, so preachers need to use the...
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Carlosa third-generation U.S. citizen from New Jersey whose family emigrated from Colombia many years before Carlos was bornis often complimented on how articulate he is and asked how long he has been in the United States.
Deborah, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who is up for election as church treasurer, has her qualifications questioned, debated, and scrutinized by...
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In How to Be a Pastor: Wisdom from the Past for Pastors in the Present, Van Neste and Wainscott have revived the neglected yet needed wisdom of a forgotten pastor, Theodore Cuyler. While Cuyler is all but unknown today, he was a leading figure alongside the likes of Spurgeon and Moody in his own day. Moreover, he was looked to as something of an ideal pastor, and his reflections from over four decades of ministry speak to important issues that are...
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The man behind the pulpit is the communicator of the Word of God, the dispenser of heavenly wisdom that restores the fainting, encourages the weary, and motivates the determined. The preacher is a minister-a servant to God and to his fellow man. But who ministers to the minister? In Fit for the Pulpit a host of preachers dispense comfort and counsel to their brethren in the trenches, men who often work in ministerial isolation as they seek to build...
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In Mandate to Difference, renowned theologian Walter Brueggemann sets forth a new vision of the Christian church in today's world. Based on speaking engagements surrounding his critical passion and conviction that the church in this moment must set itself in tension with the rest of the world, these essays call the church to courageously defy political polarization, consumerism, and militarism.
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In the Pastoral Etiquette book every pastor or clergy will learn all the characteristic qualities that every minister of the gospel must possess . This book is fully loaded with right conduct that is expected of every child of God according to the Holy Scriptures . The book contains counselling materials that will help the average preacher or christian leader to live up to expectation , that is to say knowing how to behave properly as a man of God...
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La actitud puede hacer una gran diferencia en sus circunstancias. Cuando suceden cosas en su vida, usted tiene dos opciones para decidir. Usted puede tomar el camino alto o el camino bajo. Un camino conduce a la victoria, y el otro a la derrota. La realidad es que la elección es suya. ¡Hay victoria para nosotros! En Más que Vencedores, aprenda cómo las circunstancias no tienen que controlar y destruir su vida. La verdad es que, somos "MÁS QUE...
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This book deals biblically with 15 practical and theological topics that most Christians will encounter in their discipleship experience, including: eternal security, the problem of suffering, the need for baptism, the prosperity gospel, the Trinity, divorce, voting, predestination and election, universalism, military service and more!
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Recovering from Un-Natural Disasters is a must-read handbook for pastors and church leaders of communities who could or perhaps already have experienced an un-natural disaster, such as gun violence, suicides, or sexual abuse.
Unlike natural disasters, un-natural disasters deal with the concept of sin and require a different recovery strategy. In this book, readers will...
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In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions, Peterson challenges conventional wisdom regarding church marketing, mega pastors, and the church's too-cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to present a simple,...
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Everyone needs advice, and everyone gives advice. In a world of dysfunctional families, churches, and societies, professional counseling is in great demand as a solution to our problems. The weak link in this solution is the inability to determine a counselor's qualifications apart from his professional accreditation. Academics can give you knowledge, but no learning or books can give you wisdom. There are no graduate degrees in love or compassion....
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Though some conflict in the church may be normal, there are some types of conflict which are abnormal and abusive. Within some congregations there are personalities who seek to unsettle the relationship between minister and congregation. In this engaging and useful book, G. Lloyd Rediger offers strategies to prevent abuse, support clergy, and to build healthier congregations.
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The practice of "church" is witnessing a radical paradigm shift from mass gatherings, aka megachurches, to discipleship-making organs. In this book, The House Church in God's Eternal Purposes, Theodore Andoseh, describes in a practical way what a house church is and all that goes into her form and expression.House churches are the inns, the inns of God. They are the tabernacles of God. The house church is a place to welcomepeople from the street;wounded...
16) Angelology
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WHAT IS AN ANGEL?:There is a commonality in the definition of the name angel by both testaments of the Holy Bible, The Old Testament (Hebrew) and the New Testament (Greek) translate the word angel as ambassador, messenger, deputy, and ministers. The Mickelson's Enhanced Strong's Dictionaries of the Greek and Hebrew Testaments defines the Greek noun, ἄγγελος aggelos (annunciation: an'-ğe-los) as follows;1. A messenger.2. (Especially) an "angel"...
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Many believers do not know the role of the person of the Holy Spirit in their lives. We do altar calls or minister the baptism of the Holy Spirit to believers. They speak in tongues, and this is about all they know. We do not teach nor introduce them to who the Holy Spirit is.As Christians, we must know the Holy Spirit as a person and cooperate with Him if we are to reach our destinies and help others along the way.This book will look at the role...
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Liberty to the Captives is a book for any Christians who want to learn how to bring hope and redemption to their communities - for those who are ready to step beyond their comfort zone, leave the status quo behind, and take up Christ's call to minister within a world crying out for the freedom only God can bring. Longtime pastor Raymond Rivera's testimony of a life completely turned around - from gang member to RCA pastor - underscores his powerful...
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In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support.
"The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating...
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