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Book Synopsis Angry People in the Pews by : Leroy T. Howe
Download or read book Angry People in the Pews written by Leroy T. Howe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating biblical theology and tried-and-tested principles of counseling in exploring the dynamics of anger, Howe makes effective use of case studies to provide realistic examples of how people deal with anger in their lives.
Book Synopsis Private Pain in Public Pews by : Dr. Elaine A. Brown Spencer
Download or read book Private Pain in Public Pews written by Dr. Elaine A. Brown Spencer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Elaine Brown Spencers courageous new book breaks the silence and tackles issues in the church weve let ride too long. In a poignant view of church happenings, the book emphasizes that everything in the church is not what it seems. The church is filled with broken people, victims of trauma and unresolved issues that have put a clog in the church engine. The one place a person can find relief from their pain has sadly become a Sunday-morning soap opera where we cannot wait to hear the outcome of a persons indiscretion. The private pain that pew members experience is real, unspoken and devastating. The time has come to break the silence and do real talk, about what we all know is going on. Private Pain in Public Pews says it all this book is a must read that gives remedy, hope and insight that is sure to give you a new perspective on church and life itself.
Download or read book Empty the Pews written by Chrissy Stroop and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis People Are the Mission by : Danny Franks
Download or read book People Are the Mission written by Danny Franks and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re a leader in a church or business, and you want to improve your culture of hospitality, then you’ll love Danny’s new book. It’s a must-read! -Dan T. Cathy, CEO, Chick-fil-A When it comes to interacting with guests, churches typically gravitate towards one of two camps: over-the-top, shock-and-awe, let-us-entertain-you or oh-man,-some-people-just-showed-up, underwhelming experience. Each extreme has drawbacks: on one end, people become the center of the universe. On the other, hospitality is effectively ignored in deference to the "serious business" of worship. People Are the Mission proposes a healthy middle, one where guests are esteemed but the gospel is the goal. Danny Franks, Connections Pastor at Summit Church, shows churches how to take a more balanced approach - a "third way" that is both guest-friendly and gospel-centric. He shows why honoring the stranger doesn't stand in opposition to honoring the Savior. People are the mission that Christ has called us to, and if we focus on people we can better assist people to focus on the gospel.
Book Synopsis Giving Voice to the Silent Pulpit by : Barry E. Blood
Download or read book Giving Voice to the Silent Pulpit written by Barry E. Blood and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Giving Voice to the Silent Pulpit, author Barry Blood explores the many differences that exist between Popular Christianity, (the doctrine as taught from the pulpit) and Academic Christianity, (the doctrine as taught in our colleges and seminaries). He contends these are startling differences that may shock the average Christian layperson. The author reveals how these differences have created an intellectual gap between the church and our present day worldview of reality, a gap which has contributed to the decline in Christian membership rolls worldwide. He contends that exposing these known doctrinal differences will create a more intellectually honest Christianity, and-he believes-will build a church that can be a more engaging choice for the educated populace of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Beautiful Disappointment by : Colin McCartney
Download or read book The Beautiful Disappointment written by Colin McCartney and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many challenges life throws at us do not shape us. How we respond to these challenges do. In "The Beautiful Disappointment" urban youth worker and author, Colin McCartney, shares his personal struggles in dealing with the murder of one of his staff, the death of a child in his program and his own near death experience from a paralyzing water accident in Hawaii. While the author was recovering from this life threatening accident in the critical care unit of Maui Memorial Hospital he slowly realizes that trials are "beautiful disappointments" God can use to purge us off all the false things we have allowed to disfigure who we truly are. It is through this "refining by trials" that the author experiences the intimate presence of God, a presence in our soul that frees us to reconnect to who we truly are as God originally created us to be. A true story that will leave the reader truly changed.
Book Synopsis Preaching Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts by : Dr. William Brosend
Download or read book Preaching Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts written by Dr. William Brosend and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While comedian Stephen Colbert was remarkably prescient some years ago when he introduced the word “truthiness” to our vocabulary, it was presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway who told us that there are “alternative facts” abroad in the land. Rarely has such an offhand comment so captured the imagination while also aptly summarizing the spirit of the age. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that while everyone is entitled to his (or her) opinion they are not entitled to their own facts. Until now. Good preaching has always been a challenge, a combination of exegesis, insight and craft in witness to the Gospel and in service of the Church. Cultural forces, in particular the proliferation of media outlets and the explosion of available entertainment sources, have only made the challenge greater. And that was when most agreed on a common set of facts. Those days are now past and gone, and preachers may be forgiven if at times it feels as if the task is impossible: The pulpit is like a tightrope, stretched between red and blue, Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. And there is no net. I read the Beatitudes last Sunday and the tension in the church was palpable. Who knew “Blessed are the peacemakers” were fighting words? Everything I say is being interpreted and analyzed for things I never even thought about. Joshua and the Battle of Jericho has become a commentary on whether or not we should build a wall on the border. I cannot believe how angry people are. I’m old enough to remember when the big difference was whether you got your news from Walter Cronkite on CBS or Huntley/Brinkley on NBC. Now no one agrees on what constitutes news. Or facts. Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts offers a way forward. This is a book for preachers, teachers, and other leaders, along with students of preaching. It demonstrates how to proclaim honest, faithful, candid sermons, in spite of social and political disagreements. It teaches how to preach in a way that allows the Church to be its best self—a place of commitment, engagement, acceptance and compassion for all God’s children.
Book Synopsis All Hands Stand By to Repel Boarders by : Cordell Strug
Download or read book All Hands Stand By to Repel Boarders written by Cordell Strug and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cordell Strug served as a Lutheran pastor for almost twenty-eight years in rural Minnesota. In these stories and reflections, he gives a picture of a pastor's life from the inside. He writes of sitting with the dying and meeting with the angry, of visiting shut-ins and writing sermons, of lonely drives over frozen roads, of work he can't finish and wounds he can't heal. He is candid about what surprised or bothered him, about his misjudgments and failures, about the ever-growing weight of stress and sorrow. He tells who inspired him and who drove him nuts, which advice he found priceless and which he found useless. He shows the ideals of faith colliding with the realities of life in the struggling congregations he served.
Book Synopsis Southern Baptists and Muslims by : Charles W. Powell
Download or read book Southern Baptists and Muslims written by Charles W. Powell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the largest Protestant religious group in the United States--the Southern Baptist denomination--has been criticized for using and fostering anti-Islamic rhetoric. The use of anti-Islamic speech, specifically by Southern Baptist leaders, has become an alarming trend within the denomination. The effects of Southern Baptists' antipathy towards Muslims are indeed dire. Charles W. Powell has observed that the Southern Baptist denomination is underprepared and at times reluctant to engage with Muslims in the United States. His formal interviews with Southern Baptist pastors reveal that most pastors as well as their congregants have had no personal encounter with Muslims. As a result, this lack of encounter has created a deficiency of narrative empathy. Southern Baptists and Muslims empirically investigates the dynamics of these patterns. Powell proposes that this lack of narrative empathy is the primary reason why leaders within the Southern Baptist denomination have negative perceptions of Islam and Muslims. Moreover, it is primarily the lack of narrative empathy that allows for anti-Islamic rhetoric to flourish. The purpose of this book is to shape an improved, if not new, perception of Islam and Muslims--a perception that can foster neighborliness via narrative empathy.
Book Synopsis Why Catholics Can't Sing by : Thomas Day
Download or read book Why Catholics Can't Sing written by Thomas Day and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community as reflected in the way Christians worship.
Book Synopsis Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit by : Rodney Wallace Kennedy
Download or read book Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit written by Rodney Wallace Kennedy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit is a prequel to the writing and delivery of the sermon. The work of invention which includes the gathering of material is the primary focus of the book. The hard work of preaching takes place in the thinking, reading, and writing. The cross-disciplinary study provided here covers lessons learned by preachers and by novelists, poets, philosophers, and rhetoricians.
Book Synopsis Getting to Amen by : Lora-Ellen McKinney
Download or read book Getting to Amen written by Lora-Ellen McKinney and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important resource provides a set of practical tools--based on Christian principles, psychological theory, and research on African-American religious culture--that will help churches move beyond disputes and disagreements to harmony and heartfelt amens.
Book Synopsis Spirituality Without Sin and Salvation by : Walter Kania Ph.D.
Download or read book Spirituality Without Sin and Salvation written by Walter Kania Ph.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline and fall of old-time religion is finally a reality in the U.S. According to the Pew Research Center results of May 12, 2015, the number of Americans who dont affiliate with a particular religion has grown to 56 Million. Nones are the 2nd largest faith group in the U.S. There is a new emerging consciousness of Spirituality. It is sometimes described as a search for the sacred. It can also be the substance of ones inner journey in relation to the Source from which all things come. The tired and worn mantra of traditional Protestant evangelical, fundamentalist, and Roman Catholic Christian theology called Sin and Salvation: theology has served the goals of power and control for the Church for centuries. It was a favorite tool of both political and ecclesiastical groups. Other religions also make use of dogma and authoritarian notions like sin and salvation in their efforts to exercise control, and maintain power over human behavior. The Jesus of the Christian religion was not the blood sacrifice of some malicious and sadistic God as portrayed by Mel Gibson in his movie The Passion of the Christ. If you have bought into the regressive and punitive lair of the Sin and Salvation paradigm you are in the clutches of an unhealthy religion. The field of psychology provides you with a positive and healthy means of escape from the mind control, destructive concepts of a failed theology, and a failed and fraudulent psychology of mankind. The new paradigm of healthy religion shatters the shackles of the old-time and present day religious hucksters. This new path and new paradigm will provide you with a breath of fresh air that is long overdue.
Book Synopsis Boundaries for Your Soul by : Alison Cook, PhD
Download or read book Boundaries for Your Soul written by Alison Cook, PhD and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Boundaries for Your Soul show you how to turn your shame to joy, your anger to advocacy, and your inner critic into your biggest champion. Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions? Boundaries for Your Soul, written by bestselling authors and licensed counselors Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller, shows you how to calm the chaos within. This groundbreaking approach will give you the tools you need to: Know what to do when you feel overwhelmed Understand your guilt, anxiety, sadness, and fear Move from doubt and conflict to confidence and peace Find balance and emotional stability Gathering the wisdom from the authors' twenty-five years of combined advanced education, biblical studies, and clinical practice, this book will set you on a journey to become the loving, authentic, joyful person you were created to be. Praise for Boundaries for Your Soul: "Personal growth requires that we create healthy boundaries for our internal world, just as we are to do in our interpersonal relationships. When the various parts of our soul are connected and integrated, the result is that we heal, relate, and function at the highest levels. Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller have written a very helpful, engaging, and practical book on how to accomplish this process." --Dr. John Townsend, New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries and founder of the Townsend Institute "Boundaries for Your Soul spoke to me in echoes of already-known, yet-not-fully-applied truths, as well as with sweet new understandings. For both those familiar with Jesus' inner healing and those new to the process, there is real help here." --Elisa Morgan, author of The Beauty of Broken and The Prayer Coin, cohost of Discover the Word, and president emerita of MOPS International
Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Answer to Anger written by June Hunt and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Keeping your cool-- when your anger is hot! 2009.
Book Synopsis Be Not Afraid! by : Frederic M. Roberts
Download or read book Be Not Afraid! written by Frederic M. Roberts and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this in-depth study of eight diverse mainline Protestant congregations, anthropologist Fredric Roberts finds that when local congregations are evaluated by spiritual and religious standards instead of corporate- or pop-culture-based values there remains much to celebrate. Roberts recommends that congregations work to discover their own uniqueness and to build upon the strength that already exist among its own members. Be Not Afraid! is a guide to help congregations rediscover their true calling to be nurturing faith communities, committed to spreading the good news and making disciples.
