Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The ministry of the Word	Robert Eric Charles Browne	These eloquent reflections on the nature and practice of pulpit problems will invigorate the experienced and inspire the new preacher. Canon Browne was clearly ahead of his time in assessing the perp…	OL1390108W
Communicating for a Change	Andy Stanley	When You Talk, Are People Changed? Whether you speak from the pulpit, podium, or the front of a classroom, you don't need much more than blank stares and faraway looks to tell you you're not connect…	OL14957961W
What does the Lord require?	Walter C. Kaiser	Situational ethics, made popular in the 1960s, teaches that "all we need is love." Loving is how we should be, but it does not tell us what to do. A biblical ethic can provide guidance and begins wit…	OL15250576W
How to test prophecy, preaching and guidance	Roxanne Brant	How do you test the spirits? How do you know if a prophecy or teaching is of God...or of the flesh....or of the devil? How can you distinguish the genuine from the counterfeit, God's truth from the e…	OL16078903W
I believe I'll testify	Cleophus James LaRue	xvi, 160 p. ; 22 cm	OL16211485W
Our sufficiency is of God	Gardner C. Taylor,James Earl Massey,Timothy George	Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need on the part of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials backed by tested experience, reverent scholarship, a…	OL16341205W
Preaching creation	John C. Holbert	The human race, along with the animals and plants that make up the creation of God, face a difficult future due to the multiple ways that the ecosystem on which they all depend is currently under str…	OL16604878W
Rewiring Your Preaching	Richard H. Cox	What preachers preach is not necessarily what hearers hear. Have you ever wondered why some hearers are affected by a sermon but not others? The issue may not necessarily be the content or delivery o…	OL16796222W
The Evangelistic Zeal of George Whitfield	Steven J. Lawson	England in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was in the midst of spiritual decline, marked by lifeless sermons, strife, persecution, and malaise. Into this dark time, George Whitefield b…	OL17108379W
Serving the Word	Melinda A. Quivik	viii, 96 p. ; 22 cm	OL18650985W
Preaching, sermon, and cultural change in the long eighteenth century	Joris van Eijnatten	This study examines the sermon during the 'long' eighteenth century - the era between Bossuet and Schleiermacher. it offers a broad outline of the history of preaching in this period, an overview of …	OL18716277W
Preaching the Gospels without blaming the Jews	Clark M. Williamson,Ronald J. Allen	"The four Gospels are steeped in Judaism: one cannot understand any one of them without knowledge of Jewish people, practices, Scriptures, and institutions in the first century. At the same time, the…	OL20947206W
A reader on preaching	Francis, Leslie J.,Jeff Astley,David Day	"This collection of twenty-nine articles by international experts in the area of homiletics coincides with the revival of interest in preaching over the last twenty-five years. It is practical withou…	OL20947254W
Spirituality, theology, and mental health	Chris Cook	Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health provides reflections from leading international scholars and practitioners in theology, anthropology, philosophy and psychiatry as to the nature of spirituali…	OL20956991W
Preaching as a theological task	David Buttrick,Thomas G. Long,Edward Farley	How do daily events impact preaching? How does a preacher use the gospel and scripture to speak to those situations? This volume, in honor of homiletician David Buttrick, explores the complex and imp…	OL20965430W
Beyond heterosexism in the pulpit	Emily Askew	This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church. Instead It assumes the reader is a minister or student of ministry w…	OL20974266W
Preaching the mystery of faith	Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops	Gives attention to the biblical and theological foundations for effective liturgical preaching. --Back cover.	OL23414704W
The library of distinctive sermons	Gary W. Klingsporn	"The Library of Distinctive Sermons brings together a collection of powerful contemporary sermons of diverse style and content, along with careful reflection as to what makes each sermon effective, a…	OL24912839W
Black Preaching	Henry H. Mitchell	Transcripts of representative sermons are used to illustrate an appraisal of the language and style of the Black preaching tradition.	OL4466557W
Biblical Preaching,	Haddon W. Robinson	Haddon Robinson's Biblical Preaching has become a modern classic on the preparation and delivery of expository sermons. Much has changed, however, in twenty years and Robinson has undertaken the task…	OL47592W