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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...
$18.00
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Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as Theologian
Preachers are not simple representatives of a particular theological world. Each preacher manifests characteristics that arise from that person's particular...
$24.00
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Becoming a Healthier Pastor: Family Systems Theory and the Pastor's Own Family
Among the most helpful and widely acclaimed resources for addressing church conflict and the quality of church life is Richardson's groundbreaking volume...
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Wholly Citizens: God's Two Realms and Christian Engagement with the World
Wholly Citizens addresses the relation between the church and the world in light of the Reformation teaching of the two realms—especially as presented by Luther. Rather than exploring again the usual texts of Luther from the 1520’s, this book begins with a careful reading of Luther’s Commentary on Psalm 81 (1531), and then considers subsequent interpreters of Luther, both faithful and otherwise, and the dubious legacy they have left the church.
$39.00
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Theology the Lutheran Way
Rather than asking if theology is theoretical or practical—a question that reveals a fundamental lack of understanding about the nature of theology in general—it is better to ask "What exactly is theology?" It is this question that Oswald Bayer attempts to answer in Theology the Lutheran Way, clearing up misconceptions about the essence of theology. Along with Luther himself, Bayer claims that theology, rather than being something that we do, is really what God does.
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Preaching from Home: The Stories of Seven Lutheran Women Hymn Writers
This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present. After a brief introductory discussion of Elisabeth Cruciger, the first woman hymn writer of the Reformation, Grindal provides fascinating profiles of these talented Scandinavian women who "preached from home": Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Birgitte Hertz Boye, Berthe Canutte Aarflot, Lina Sandell, Britt G. Hallqvist, and Lisbeth Smedegaard Andersen.
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Reviving the Congregation: Pastoral Leadership in a Changing Context
Dr. Foss here offers a compelling introduction to the new context in which we lead our congregations and the personal and congregational strategies that will offer a way forward.
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Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross
Root here seeks to create a practical theology that is properly and fully theological, post-postmodern, post-Aristotelian, and that attends to doctrines such as divine action and justification.
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Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict That Changed American Christianity
Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod follows the rise of two Lutheran clergymen-Herman Otten and J. A. O. Preus-who led different wings of a...
$34.00
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Preaching Doctrine: For the Twenty-First Century
Fewer people today are familiar with the vital theological ideas from the Christian tradition. Preaching about the continuing relevance and richness of this...
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Moving Beyond Church Growth: An Alternative Vision for Congregations
Character development for communities of faith - Mark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectations...
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Preaching Mark
An expert guide from Galillee to Jerusalem This new resource examines the major literary units of Mark's Gospel with an eye toward helping the pastor in...
$21.00
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Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths
This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have so they can address issues that come up in life. The authors...
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The Effective Pastor: A Guide to Successful Ministry
This highly practical step-by-step look at the life and role of the pastor is helpful for newly ordained clergy as well as the experienced pastor looking for...
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Cross-Cultural Counseling
For the busy pastor, this volume outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to this type of helping process. Issues such as identity, sense...
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Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamation
The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to...
$29.00
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To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church
Being a Christian means learning to love with God's love. But God's love is not a warm feeling in the pit of the stomach. It has definite characteristics we...
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Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church
Jessicah Krey Duckworth presents the stark differences between the established congregation and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members.
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Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century
Peterson places the questions of the church's identity and mission into a conversation with the primary ecclesiological paradigms of the past century.
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Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families
Those who are afflicted as well as those who are adversely affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance...
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