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Knowing the Context: Frames, Tools, and Signs for Preaching
While everyone might affirm that preaching needs to engage its listeners deeply, the initial move for novice preachers is to think this can be attained by...
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Transforming Leadership: New Vision for a Church in Mission
Transforming Leadership sets forth the core values and leadership practices that can bring fundamental transformation to the life of the local church. Based on...
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Ask, Thank, Tell: Improving Stewardship Ministry in Your Congregation
The goal of this book, says author Charles Lane, is to perform a dramatic rescue of stewardship, freeing it from any connection whatsoever to "paying the...
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Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life
Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life explores Luther's teaching on the seven marks of the church: possession of the Word,...
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Literary Companion to the Lectionary: Readings Throughout the Year
This beautiful book offers poems and literary pieces for Sundays and principal feasts throughout the liturgical year. Each selection relates to an aspect of...
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A Gospel for Workers: Cho Chi Song, Yeongdeungpo Urban Industrial Mission, and Minjung
This book introduces the life story of Cho Chi Song, from whom emerged three critical elements in Korean mission and theology: valuing workers, the urban industrial mission, and the platform for Minjung Theology. The subjects of this book were the sparks for Minjung Theology, which is still best known within Korea.
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Three Treatises: The Annotated Luther Study Edition
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years after, he clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In the writings Luther framed his ideas in terms that are comprehensible to clergy and people from all backgrounds.
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Charging Interest: Medieval Wisdom for a Modern Financial Crisis
Charging Interest explores the explosive tract written by Martin Luther which summarizes his views on poverty caused by an economic system that stopped caring for the well-being of God's children. Luther exhorts clergy to ex-communicate those causing poverty through their ruthless economic behavior or risk God's judgment alongside the perpetrators.
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The Trinity and the Spirit: Two Essays from Christian Dogmatics
Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Triune God, Jenson examines the Doctrine of God and in The Holy Spirit, he undertakes Pneumatology. For students and scholars alike, this assembly of Forde's early work will broaden the impact of his thought for a new generation.
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Remorse: Finding Joy through Honest Apology
In Remorse: Finding Joy through Honest Apology, Episcopal priest and licensed therapist Stephen Crippen offers a path for those who long to experience the grace of remorse and need learn only how to begin. He also speaks to faith leaders who want to help people work with their burdens of conscience -- a difficult but rich and satisfying process.
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The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary
The Community Rule is an important document to emerge from Qumran. For fifty years after its discovery scholars relied predominantly on the well-preserved Cave 1 copy. Since the early 1990s, ten additional copies have become available. This is the first commentary to treat all the manuscript and the first in English since A. R. C. Leaney's in 1966.
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For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions
In For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer a process for creating biblically grounded, relevant sermons for events that arise from calendars, celebrations, or circumstances by considering the occasion, the gathered listeners, and the ways God is at work in that season.
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The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World
The Cross in the Midst of Creation asserts that the crucifixion is ongoing as institutional powers diminish human life and destroy creation, and that the resurrection is ongoing as faith overcomes despair and the Spirit equips people to follow Jesus and to struggle for a transformed world.
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Joyful Defiance: Death Does Not Win the Day
Joyful Defiance encourages readers to reflect on experiences of anxiety, anger, exhaustion, and grief, emotions not always welcomed in the Christian tradition. Lament is an act of faith in God that acknowledges pain and protests death. Joy is a counterstory and a truer tale, less a feeling than a way of being for the self and for the world.
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Clergy Burnout, Revised and Expanded: Surviving in Turbulent Times
In Clergy Burnout, Fred Lehr explores the nature and practice of codependence in the life and ministry of clergy. In short, insightful, and easily accessible chapters, he offers many useful examples along with hard-won and carefully distilled wisdom for ministry amid today's cultural shifts.
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Leading Congregational Change: A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey
With this much-needed handbook, the authors brilliantly combine their experience guiding dozens of churches through the change process with both the study of Christian disciplines and the sophisticated understanding of such important business thinkers as John Kotter on leading change and Peter Senge on learning organizations. In this eminently readable book, the authors have distilled their insights and practices into simple but powerful concepts for leading congregations, whether long established or recently formed, through profound change.
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Sexuality and Holy Longing, 2nd Edition: Embracing Intimacy in a Beautiful, Broken World
In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others. McMinn provides a blueprint for understanding sexuality--and our longing to be loved--at all stages of life (childhood, teen years, early adulthood, midlife, and old age).
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Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice
In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.
Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities, seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry/
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Mansions of the Heart: Exploring Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth
In Mansions of the Heart, author R. Thomas Ashbrook tells of discovering a new path of spiritual transformation and offers seekers a way to move forward on their own spiritual paths. Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide based on Teresa of Avila's seven mansions.
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Preaching Must Die!: Troubling Homiletical Theology
The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we...
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