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Book Synopsis Personal Poems from a Practical Preacher by : Rev. Larry E. Hudson
Download or read book Personal Poems from a Practical Preacher written by Rev. Larry E. Hudson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Personal Poems from a Practical Preacher is a collection of poems generated by the author based on experiences accrued over 22 years of military travel. Easily relatable, these daily, practical occurrences will inspire, motivate, and encourage readers to push past the pain of personal struggling and suffering in secret. About the Author Rev. Larry E. Hudson has seen and heard many stories by serving as a pastor and being deeply involved with families and their personal struggles. As a teacher in high school, he has served as a father figure to many who were struggling.
Book Synopsis Preaching as Poetry by : Paul Scott Wilson
Download or read book Preaching as Poetry written by Paul Scott Wilson and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is tempting for preachers in this digital age of plurality and diversity to offer quick sound bites and PowerPoint-style presentations. These tend to invite a yes or no response, as in mathematical equations. But if we are to reach Christians across the theological spectrumandinvite non-Christians to seriously consider our faith, we must take a different approach. What is needed is greater attention to poetry and images meant to communicate the beauty of the faith and the wonder and mystery of God in everyday life. We must communicate the unity of our message of faith, the divine as truth, and justice and healing as expressions of God. Preaching as poetry (theopoetic preaching) allows for the bold imagery of scripture and the gentle invitation of art. Sermons can no longer always be neatly tied up, perfectly linear, with complete answers to every question. In Preaching as Poetry Paul Scott Wilson teaches why this new approach is necessary today, and demonstrates with multiple examples how it works in real sermons. He skillfully guides the reader to incorporate the classical values of beauty, goodness and truth in every sermon, and in ways that connect with congregants and listeners today.
Book Synopsis Poetry, Practical Theology and Reflective Practice by : Mark Pryce
Download or read book Poetry, Practical Theology and Reflective Practice written by Mark Pryce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing professional development. In the contemporary drive in all professions for greater rigour in education, training, and development, little attention is paid to the inner shape of learning and meaning-making for individuals and groups, especially ways in which individuals are formed for the task of their work. Building on empirical research into the author’s professional practice, the book takes the use of poetry in clergy continuing ministerial development as a case-study to examine the value of poetry in professional learning. Setting out the advantages and limitations of poetry as a stimulant for imaginative, critical reflexivity, and formation within professional reflective practice, the study develops a practical model for group reflection around poetry, distilling pedagogical approaches for working effectively with poetry in continuing professional development. Drawing together a number of strands of thinking about poetry, Practical Theology, and reflective practice into a tightly argued study, the book is an important methodological resource. It makes available a range of primary and secondary sources, offering researchers into professional practice a model of ethnographic research in Practical Theology which embraces innovative methods for reflexivity and theological reflection, including the value of auto-ethnographic poetry.
Book Synopsis The Tie That Binds by : Jon Carleton
Download or read book The Tie That Binds written by Jon Carleton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tie That Binds is a compilation of poems written over the lifetime of a Congregationalist minister. The poet and preacher, Richard Carleton, tells us about his faith from day to day, talking about love, philosophy, children, family, and his memories. Within these personal reflections, he speaks of the mystery and eloquence of God. He creates extraordinary pictures of God from the ordinary events in our lives. This is the key! Richard Carleton lets us know that God is central to his thinking and feeling and living. It is both a refuge for him and an exhortation for the rest of us. If you were to accept--just for the time it takes to read these verses--that God is a real part of our lives, you might see your acceptance of our Creator and Redeemer assume a new and expanded reality: God as the underlying force! These poems let you see a man of deep faith, and at the same time, ask yourself about your own faith.
Download or read book Paint Your Future written by Edith Perry and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of writing this poetry book is to reach out to those who are children of God and those who do not know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. Jesus is the only one who can save you from your sins so you can have abundant life now and eternal life forever. She prays these poems will help you stay on the battlefield of righteousness to defeat Satan with God’s word and encourage others to become children of God to receive the promises he has for them. Her poetry is a spiritual expression of pulpit sermons and life experiences. She is hopeful after reading these poems; the readers are inspired, equip, educate, and motivated to live a life of righteousness, a life of celebration, a life of overcoming obstacles in their everyday living, a life that will bring about change through sorrow and victories that will allow the reader to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Book Synopsis Healing with Words by : George Kaliaden
Download or read book Healing with Words written by George Kaliaden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do our words acquire healing powers? How do words make changes in each others brains? How do special uses of words, poetic or therapeutic, modify our thoughts, alter our feelings and transform our lives? This book introduces helping professionals to the practice of poetry therapy, highlighting the prophetic role of poets and healing professionals in our everyday life.
Book Synopsis Poems That Preach, Teach and Reach by : Dr. Paul A. Madsen
Download or read book Poems That Preach, Teach and Reach written by Dr. Paul A. Madsen and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poems written over many years and inspired by sermons, friends, family, Bible verses, and circumstances. They review the thoughts from sermons, they teach the lessons from the Bible, and they reach out to those who are hurting and are distressed by things that happen to them. The poems are meant to bring comfort, insight, challenge, blessing, guidance, and information to readers.
Book Synopsis The Poems of a Cowboy Preacher by : Lee Brock
Download or read book The Poems of a Cowboy Preacher written by Lee Brock and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Brock was born in Lamesa, Texas, in October 1923. His parents were cotton farmers on the plains of Texas where he learned about hard work, wind, windmills, horses, cattle and the beauty of nature. In school he learned to express his thoughts about his life in poems. He was saved, baptized, and called to preach in a revival at Seminole, Texas, in 1938, and a spiritual element was added to his poetry. Thus began a lifetime of poetry writing from the perspective of a cowboy preacher. Lee graduated from high school in Hermleigh, Texas in 1941 and was ordained to preach on December 7, 1941-the same day that Pearl Harbor was attacked. He enrolled in Wayland Baptist College in January 1942. There he met Frances Patterson, and they married eighteen months later. He attended Baylor University for two years before graduating from Howard Payne University in 1947. He pastored churches in Rockdale and Thorndale while going to school and after graduation moved on the field at Mountain Home, Texas. It was ranch country and the cowboy helped the local ranchers with their work while he ministered to their spiritual needs as pastor. But in 1952 under the leadership of the Lord he moved to Camas, Washington to start a new church. As a bi-vocational pastor, he helped the people move from Sunday meeting in a Seven Day Adventist Church (who meet on Saturdays) to having a nice building on the outskirts of town. Several leaders in the Northwest Baptist Convention today came from that church. Lee's ministry stretched over fifty years and across pastorates in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Williams Lake, British Columbia, The Dalles, Oregon, Goldendale, Washington and Rufus, Oregon. People were blessed by his leadership, his loving spirit, and, of course, his poetry.
Book Synopsis The Irrational David by : Ken Evers-Hood
Download or read book The Irrational David written by Ken Evers-Hood and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Irrational Jesus: Leading the Fully Human Church, Ken Evers-Hood explored how our predictable irrationality can trip us up and how we can adjust for biases. But irrationality isn't all bad. Leaders who live in their heads will never connect deeply with the hearts of those they serve. Because we are like small rational riders astride enormous emotional elephants, leaders must learn how to sing to elephants even as they speak to riders. In The Irrational David: The Power of Poetic Leadership, Ken invites you to sing. Through his work with poet David Whyte, Ken explores poetic leadership in King David, a fully human, irrational leader who knew how to stir people with song. In four sections, The Irrational David observes King David the believer, the beloved, the beautiful mess, and the broken-hearted. Offering his own poetry as a lens, Ken enters into scripture and creates a conversation between the spoken word and sacred text. Discover how irrationality and poetry can prepare us for the real conversations for which our communities are so hungry. Find new layers of meaning in familiar Scriptures. And welcome a fellow traveler into your life who has found strength through vulnerability and is willing to share his journey on the beautiful and messy road of faith with you.
Book Synopsis Proverbs from the Poet Preacher by : Ralph Vile
Download or read book Proverbs from the Poet Preacher written by Ralph Vile and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the biblical book of Proverbs reveals the wisdom of an ancient king of Israel who dedicated himself to Jehovah in his youth, so too this book presents the wit and wisdom of a modern school teacher and church leader who committed himself to Christ at the age of seven. Compiled, arranged, and edited by Ralph Vile's eldest son, John, this book contains some 2,500 of Ralph's aphorisms from a fifty-year period, arranged under more than 200 topics covering the range of practical and spiritual living. A unique mix of universal truths and deeply held personal opinions from a man with a good sense of humor who loves both rhymes and paradoxical word plays, this book will amuse, challenge, and inspire general readers as it provides insights, illustrations, and reflections for pastors and speakers. RALPH VILE has spent most of his life in Luray, Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Born in Colonial Beach, Virginia and committing his life to God at the age of seven, Ralph served in the U.S. Navy and attended college where he met his wife Joanna. After brief service on the mission field in Costa Rica, the couple returned with their growing family to Virginia. There they began teaching in public schools as they raised five children and two grandchildren; furthered their educations; and served God through music, teaching, and in other leadership capacities at the Mt. Carmel Regular Baptist Church. Ralph has been writing poems, some of which have been collected in Xulon's We Are His Poets (the first volume of Valley Verses) and Let the Bells Ring Out on Christmas Morning, and proverbs for more than fifty years.
Book Synopsis Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels by : Elizabeth Michael Boyle
Download or read book Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels written by Elizabeth Michael Boyle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can an understanding of the poetics of the Gospels, together with a reading of poetry inspired by them, make the homily an art form as compelling as a poetry performance? In Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels, Elizabeth Michael Boyle, O.P., offers a preaching guide to the Sunday Lectionary using the insights of poets to enliven and elicit more powerful homilies. Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels demonstrates that not only the Fourth Gospel but also the Synoptics can be read with special understanding when they are interpreted as narrative poetry. For each Sunday, from the first Sunday in Advent through Trinity Sunday, the author offers a poet's reflection on the literary devices in the liturgical texts, and a gathering of poems about the gospel event. Chapters are "Incarnation: Advent to Epiphany, " "Redemption: Ash Wednesday through Holy Week, " "Resurrection: The Sundays of Easter, " "Transformation: Ascension to Trinity Sunday, " and "Reclaiming the Poetry of Ordinary Time."
Book Synopsis Practice What You Preach by : Nicole Philp
Download or read book Practice What You Preach written by Nicole Philp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the recognition that students learn best, and learn the most, when they witness their teachers modeling the characteristics they profess to value in their classrooms; in other words, when they see their teachers “practice what they preach”. If teachers are going to hold themselves true to this adage, then not only do they have a responsibility to practice what they preach, but they must also be deliberate about what they preach in the first place. Practice What You Preach: Teacher Accountability and Personal Values explores how teachers can “preach” the values that matter most in the classroom and provides practical strategies for how to put those values into “practice”. Each chapter focuses on a different value that is worthy of investing time and energy into as an educator, and worthy of being “preached” and “practiced” through integrating them into curriculum outcomes lessons. Teachers who put into practice the values that they preach reap the rewards of respectful and engaged students. Students likewise reap rewards of self-confidence, determination, and a love of learning when those same values are modeled by their teachers.
Book Synopsis The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in this Country by : Alexander Vietts Blake
Download or read book The American Bookseller's Complete Reference Trade List, and Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in this Country written by Alexander Vietts Blake and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Peace in Practice and Poetry by : Joy Mead
Download or read book Making Peace in Practice and Poetry written by Joy Mead and published by Wild Goose Publications. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five practical workshops, for groups or individuals, to explore the use of words and poetry in everyday life. The readings and activities in this book aim to lead us to a deeper understanding of how we use language.
Download or read book Preaching Poetry written by Rose Junior and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God gave me the gift to write poetry a long time ago. In fact, when He gives me a poem, He is talking to me first and then He wants me to share what I have learned. These poems are about real-life struggles. Although some may seem harsh, they are the truth. Jesus is a doctor and people cant get well until after they have chosen Him as their permanent physician. The enemy has more patience than we do, and he will wait 10-20 years to take you, if the keeper does not keep you. Also, many people think that what they are doing is right and they simply dont know its wrong, until someone tells them. Through poetry, God has given me the ability to show His people His truth about themselves as well as the God that can deliver. DONT FOOL YOURSELF, YOU CAN ONLY CAP SIN WITH A KEEPING GOD.
Book Synopsis Finally Comes the Poet by : Walter Brueggemann
Download or read book Finally Comes the Poet written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart. With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech?differently voiced and therefore differently heard. This speech, as suggested by the Bible itself, is "poetic" speech, enabling the preacher to forge communion in the midst of alienation, bring healing out of guilt, and empower the hearer for "missional imagination." As an alternative to theological/homiletical discourse that is moralistic, pietistic or scholastic, Brueggemann proposes preaching that is artistic, poetic, and dramatic. The basis for the 1989 Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School, Finally Comes the Poet is a unique and transforming guide for powerful preaching.
Book Synopsis Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman by : Alastair Bennett
Download or read book Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman written by Alastair Bennett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many different forms and were delivered in many different contexts, from public events in the life of the realm to pastoral instruction in the parish. It dramatises preaching as part of its allegorical action, showing how sermons shaped their listeners' understanding of the world; it also includes polemical critique of corrupt, self-interested preaching, and offers radical prescriptions for its reform. This book argues that Langland's central insight into the way that sermons moved and engaged their audiences had to do with their characteristic use of narrative. Preachers in the poem address listeners who are absorbed in the concerns of their present moment, and encourage them to new forms of social and spiritual endeavour by locating that moment in a larger, interpreted plot: the story of an individual life, or an emergent community, or of salvation history as a whole. The book employs a critical vocabulary derived from Paul Ricoeur to describe the process by which these narratives are composed, and to show how they mediate and reconfigure their listeners' experiences.
