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Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century
Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.
Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.
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Sermons of Consequence
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Sermons of Consequence is a collection of sermons preached at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, Illinois. Although the places and people have named have local familiarity, the sermons set forth here speak to the wider human condition, which makes this book applicable to people everywhere. These sermons provide a model for broader witness to the Holy Spirit as the power for consequential preaching.
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Psalms Old and New: Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics
Reading the Book of Psalms in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings,...
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Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos
Relying on his upbringing as a Baptist, his doctoral work in experimental nuclear physics and gamma-ray astronomy, and his ordination to the gospel ministry, Paul Wallace weaves a book unlike any other in faith-and-science literature.
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Singing the Church's Song: Essays & Occasional Writings on Church Music
The essays in this collection are gathered from presentations made over the years by Dr. Carl Schalk to various groups interested in the worship and music of the Church. Some essays have previously appeared in print but are in a variety of publications no longer generally available.
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Understanding and Using the Bible
Understanding and Using the Bible is an engaging and exciting introduction to biblical methods and practices of study, edited by two trusted teachers in collaboration with a diverse array of contributors.
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Leading with the Spirit: A Handbook on Leadership and Management for Clergy
Clergy leading faith-based institutions will find in this book practical tools for becoming effective stewards of people and resources in their organizations while being rooted in the Spirit An experienced and ecumenical group of clergy, policy leaders, and academics offer specific tools on important topics such as discovering the leader within, leading through changes, multicultural mission and management, spiritual entrepreneurship, creating a shared vision and strategy, and various topics on the stewardship of organizations.
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eBook-Pedagogies for Student-Centered Learning: Online and On-Ground
The question of determining what pedagogies to use within the classroom (on-ground or virtual) can often plague teachers given the preferences of today's student. This book will help you to identify the difference between teacher-centered and student-centered learning and the various pedagogies commonly associated with each.
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Breaking Bread, Breaking Beats: Churches and Hip-Hop - A Basic Guide to Key Issues
In this innovative project, ten individuals write as one voice to illuminate the ways that hip-hop and the Black Church agree, disagree, and inform each other on key topics.
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eBook-By the Rivers of Babylon: Blueprint for a Church in Exile
Robert Hoch reads the larger North American tradition of Christian worship and mission through the prism of visibly marginalized communities.
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Bach Through the Year: The Church Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Revised Common Lectionary
The church music of Johan Sebastian Bach is identified with the Revised Common Lectionary texts, an invaluable reference for church musicians.
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Let Us Sing: Improve Your Skills, Improve Your Choir - A Brief Guide for the New or Untrained Choir Director
The book addresses key areas of competence ranging from auditions to rehearsals to vocal training, enunciation, warm-ups, conducting, score preparation, motivation and management, and performance and recordings and much more.
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The Sound of Scripture: Reading the Bible Aloud - A Brief Guide for Lay Readers
This book is designed as a guide for readers who want to become more confident and effective in communicating the meaning of God s Word clearly to listeners. Reading scripture aloud involves a great many considerations by the reader: knowledge and understanding, faith, respect, spirit and heart, vocal skill, and physical control. Though reading individual words on the printed page might seem an easy task, communicating the profound meaning of the words clearly can be an exciting challenge. Lay readers and lectors are here given a simple process to follow when preparing their readings so they feel comfortable reading with variety, expressiveness, and, most of all, with clear understanding.
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eBook-Theologians in Their Own Words
Theologians in Their Own Words is a volume of 23 brief, straight-forward autobiographical statements from many of the most important theologians and scholars of religion of recent decades.
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Teaching the Bible in the Parish (and Beyond)
These lectures raise awareness about the various ways the church has traditionally interpreted the Bible and explores a mixture of contemporary approaches to scriptural interpretation. Five ELCA scholars were invited to offer lectures out of their particular perspectives and scholarship. Each lecturer traveled to three sites where each delivered major presentations exploring important and innovative Lutheran perspectives on biblical interpretation, making a case for the promise of one, some, or even all of them.
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Preaching Christ in a Pluralistic Age: Sermons by Carl E. Braaten
Many of the sermons in this volume challenge the pluralistic theology of religion that effectively nullifies the Great Commission to preach the gospel to all the nations. These sermons are mostly didactic, doctrinal, and unabashedly Christocentric. In the long run the only thing that will sustain the church through is firm confidence in the biblical truth that God revealed himself in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
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Holy Spirit: Creative Power in Our Lives
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Who is the Holy Spirit? How does the Spirit work in our lives as individuals, families, communities, and in the world at large? What would happen if we claimed...$22.00
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eBook-Reclaiming the "V" Word: Renewing Life at Its Vocational Core
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Centered in a definition of vocation that flows from Luther's conviction that all Christians share the same vocation but live it out in various occupations and... -
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