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Download or read book Sermon Treks written by Ronald J. Allen and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lectionary is a helpful homiletical tool. But there are times when lectionary preaching does not meet a congregation’s needs. Sermon Treks offers preachers and students an invigorating selection of new sermon-planning trails, for use as sermon series or for single sermons. The options presented here are practical and theologically responsible. Some are rooted in ancient forms of proclamation; others are new. All provide clear but creative guidance for the preacher, and a path that will lead to more effective sermons.
Book Synopsis Preaching Must Die! by : Jacob D. Myers
Download or read book Preaching Must Die! written by Jacob D. Myers and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we are going to help it die a good death. Preaching was not made to live. At most, preaching is a witness, a sign, a crimson X marking a demolition site. The church has developed sophisticated technologies in modernity to give preaching the semblance of life, belying the truth: preaching was born under a death sentence. It was born to die. Only when preaching embraces its own death is it able to live. This book, then, is a bold homiletical manifesto against preaching in support of preaching, and beyond preaching to the entire worship experience. It troubles modern homiletical theologies in light of the trouble always already at work within preaching. Hereby, it supports a way of preaching--and teaching preaching--that moves counter to the "wisdom of this world." It aims to joins in Gods self-revealed counterlogic of superabundance that saturates and thereby breaks open worldly systems of thought and practice. The purpose of this book is to expose preaching to its own death-to help it embrace its death-so that it can discover what eternal and abundant life might look and feels like.
Book Synopsis Preaching and the Thirty-Second Commerical by : Carrie La Ferle
Download or read book Preaching and the Thirty-Second Commerical written by Carrie La Ferle and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, preaching and advertising seem worlds apart from one another. One tries to proclaim love of God and neighbor; the other tries to sell you something that you may or may not need. Yet both must compete with other ways we receive and process information in an increasingly distracted world. While most of the time preaching simply tries to muddle through this situation, advertising knows that it must continually relearn how to reclaim its audience's attention–and keep it. Believing that preaching can benefit from advertising's laser focus on how to make its message stick, O. Wesley Allen, Jr. (a preaching professor) and Carrie La Ferle (a professor of advertising) have written this first-of-its-kind book on what preachers can learn from advertising. Examples of these lessons include: • Sharpening one's analysis to understand the congregation better • Encoding a message so that listeners can decode it for their individual lives • Understanding how the form of the sermon leads to greater or lesser effectiveness • Building the sermon around imagery and narrative
Book Synopsis The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2017 by : Scott Hoezee
Download or read book The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2017 written by Scott Hoezee and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2017 includes: The Primary Theme Fleshed out with brief, pithy nuggets of thought, idea jump-starters, or questions designed to spur the preacher’s imagination. Secondary or Parallel Themes Two or three themes or streams of thought that are related to but separate from the primary theme offered. Worship Helps Including Gathering Prayer, Collect, Pastoral Prayer, Congregational Prayer, Responsive Reading, and a Closing Prayer or Benediction. Topical Essays These 700 word essays cover a variety of current and critical topics for the preacher—contributed by leading homileticians. Full Sermons The full text from six to twelve sermons will be included. These sermons will highlight best practices, unique approaches, and fresh voices. Sermon Series Ideas This section will briefly outline and describe ideas for unique sermon series based on lectionary readings. "As a weekly preacher, I often find that preparing for preaching and crafting sermons are spiritual disciplines for me. It is a time in which I try to quiet all of the other 'to do' lists that occupy much of my ministry. This resource from Abingdon Press will now be a partner in those conversations, almost like a new personal devotional guide. I am grateful for additional voices who can help me make space for God’s Living Word." - Shannon J Kershner, Pastor, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL "The Abingdon Preaching Annual is a valuable resource for today’s preacher seeking to offer sermons with theological depth and thematic clarity. It seeks to activate the preacher’s own reflection and imagination in the challenging task of weekly preaching." - Alyce M. McKenzie, Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship Director, The Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence
Book Synopsis You Never Step into the Same Pulpit Twice by : Ronald J. Allen
Download or read book You Never Step into the Same Pulpit Twice written by Ronald J. Allen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops an approach to preaching that brings together two important forces. One is process theology and the other is a homiletic of conversation based on mutual critical correlation. In this approach, the preacher does not unilaterally announce the Word of God but is the leader of an exciting conversation involving the biblical text, process theology, the congregation, and voices from the larger world. The preacher seeks to help the congregation identify God’s invitations towards inclusive well-being and to imagine how to respond in ways that are consistent with those invitations, that promote inclusive well-being. The book begins with a crisp and clear summary of the worldview of process theology, highlighting its distinctive views on how God operates in the world through invitation and on the interrelationship of all things. The work then outlines an approach to biblical exegesis informed by process perspectives and sketches a method for bringing the biblical voice into dialogue with voices from tradition, contemporary theology, and the congregation and preacher. The volume suggests shaping the sermon to honor process theology and conversation. The volume concludes by noticing how perspectives from process and conversation help the preacher embody the sermon in engaging ways.
Book Synopsis The Sermon without End by : Ronald J. Allen
Download or read book The Sermon without End written by Ronald J. Allen and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Model for Post-Apologetic Preaching in a Pluralistic World. The relationship between preaching and the public sphere has long been debated. Three different theological approaches tend to dominate the discussion. In different ways, these approaches take into account the movement from the modern mindset of the mid-to-late 20th century to the emerging postmodern worldview. In The Sermon without End, authors Allen & Allen thoughtfully offer a fourth option, one that in their view has not received much attention, but which offers a distinct and especially helpful perspective. It is a new and dynamic conversational model, reaching beyond the earlier work of Tillich and Tracy. In this homiletical framework, conversation takes place in multiple directions between the text or tradition and the world today. It is preaching in conversation, not just toward but with voices from the public sphere. The book provides a solid foundation for understanding this post-apologetic approach, but it importantly goes on to offer practical, real-pulpit guidance for implementation in a preaching ministry. It is a book for both scholars and practicing preachers who wish to reach people in meaningful and significant ways, and in ways that make sense for today. "This book deserves to be widely applauded. It provides a post-apologetic lens to illuminate the history of various modern homiletical discourses even as it envisions a postmodern one. ... I strongly recommend this book for homileticians, preachers, and lay people alike." - Duse Lee, Boston University School of Theology - Reviewed in Homiletic
Book Synopsis The Longest Trek by : Grace Lee Whitney
Download or read book The Longest Trek written by Grace Lee Whitney and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She opened for jazz great Billie Holiday, shared the set with Marilyn Monroe, and flirted on-screen with Jack Lemmon. In her dream role, Gene Roddenberry beamed her aboard the Starship Enterprise as Yeoman Janice Rand in the original ""Star Trek"" series. But a terrifying sexual assault on the studio lot and her lifelong feelings of emptiness and isolation would soon combine to turn her starry dream into a nightmare.
Book Synopsis Preaching Hebrews and 1 Peter by : James W. Thompson
Download or read book Preaching Hebrews and 1 Peter written by James W. Thompson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because commentaries are increasingly complex, preachers face the challenge of mastering the results of critical scholarship and merging the horizons between exegesis and a living word for the congregation. In this volume, Thompson offers a guide for preachers, using the results of current scholarship on Hebrews and 1 Peter to enrich the preaching task. He demonstrates that these ancient letters, which speak to believers whose faith has made them aliens and exiles in their own land, offer insights that speak to believers who are aliens and exiles in a post-Christian culture. While the standard commentaries analyze the historical and grammatical issues in detail, this book demonstrates the focus and rhetorical effect of each section, making it accessible for preaching. He focuses on the argument of each letter and its pastoral dimension for the ancient and contemporary audience. Thompson also demonstrates the path from exegetical insight to the focus and function of each pericope for the sermon. Brief sermon sketches demonstrate the relationship between the focus of the text and the focus of the sermon.
Book Synopsis A Different Trek by : David K. Seitz
Download or read book A Different Trek written by David K. Seitz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing the rich ethical and political world-building of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David K. Seitz argues that race and geography are central to appreciating the series' profound critiques of neoliberal multiculturalism and U.S. empire.
Book Synopsis Trek Through the Wilderness by : Joann Ellen Sisco
Download or read book Trek Through the Wilderness written by Joann Ellen Sisco and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many nomads and wanderers have traveled over the face of the planet. Many of them traversed the distance from the wild Atlantic to the plains of the Midwest. Some are drawn forward by restlessness, others by fear. Some few are drawn by an unknown force they are powerless to withstand. One mighty group of people traveled under the guidance of a cloud, but that was long ago in Bible days. Many were pushed about on rough waters by contrary winds, but had anyone ever been obliged to follow the direction of a window? And told about it? FROM GUNSHOT TO HOMESTEAD is book one of an eight book series, DEEP FORK RIVER, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. This series took place in a unique period of history when new land was deeded on the basis of a gunshot and a footrace. The central nugget of land in the Oklahoma Territory was advertised for settlement, quarter sections were marked out and on the 22 of April, l889 the local Cavalry and other officials started the race at the shot of a gun. On foot... on horses in wagons and in buggies, they struggled for a place to put down roots. Each of these books brings a different family, person, or in one incident, a whole town to settle in the new land. The small town fictional town of Prosper was settled by these immigrants and others. It is generally thought that this incident was the only one of its kind in history. Book one. FROM GUNSHOT TO HOMKESTEAD. A 22 year old young lady and her father make a night flight to protect a small girl from kidnap. Book two. UNDER THE REDBUDS. An idea born in a Nebraska storm gives birth to a snowball of activity for half a town. Book three. TREK THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. A young Kentucky preacher follows a strange guide with the help of a strong young lady. Book four. OF BOOMERS AND SOONERS. Free land was passed out, but some of it was already occupied. A man does what he had to do. Book five. IN OCTOBER SUNSHINE. The lady, no longer young, realized she permitted herself to be a follower all her life. It was not her time to lead. Book six. BEHIND EVERY CLOUD. Young victim of circumstances feels she finally deserves a silver lining, if she can just turn that cloud around. Book seven. TO THE PROMISED LAND. Young Camille experiences what no girl should experience, but some things happen in the best families. Book eight. WITH A SONG IN THE NIGHT. Two young girls who have never met are thrown together in desperate circumstances.
Book Synopsis Nils Astrup's 1889 Trek Translated by : Frederick Hale
Download or read book Nils Astrup's 1889 Trek Translated written by Frederick Hale and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the long-awaited, English translation and edition of Nils Astrup’s account of his 1889 trek from the British colony of Natal through Zululand and Swaziland to Portuguese East Africa. Based on a diary which Astrup kept while travelling, his book was published in Norwegian as En Missionsreise til Limpopo gjennem Zululand, Swaziland og Tongaland ind i Riget Umgaza in 1891. This three-month excursion was undertaken to explore possibilities for expanding the geographical scope of Norwegian Lutheran missionary endeavours among the various Nguni-speaking peoples of south-eastern Africa. The excursion took place at a critical historical juncture when the British Empire, Portuguese East Africa, and the South African Republic were vying for economic influence in a rapidly changing region of Africa. The erudite Astrup recorded his observations about a broad spectrum of topics, among them the impact of colonialism on indigenous Africans, tensions between colonising powers, itinerant Indian traders, African migratory labour, the extension of railways, and interracial marriage.
Book Synopsis A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo by : Mary Hall
Download or read book A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo written by Mary Hall and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek by : Edith Cecil Maturin
Download or read book Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek written by Edith Cecil Maturin and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Original Crew by : Kevin C. Neece
Download or read book The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Original Crew written by Kevin C. Neece and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Christian about Star Trek? Nothing. That's the way most people see it and that certainly seems to be the way the franchise is intended. There's no question that the Trek universe is based on a doggedly humanistic world view and is set in a future time when religion has essentially vanished from Earth. If that's the case, how can there even be a "gospel according to Star Trek"? In The Gospel According to Star Trek: The Original Crew, you'll discover how the continuing voyages of Kirk and company aboard the Enterprise--from the original series to the Abramsverse--tell us more about our human quest for God than you ever imagined. You'll learn how Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's own spiritual quest informed the franchise, what he and the series really have to say about God and religion, and the amazing image of Christ contained in Star Trek's most popular character. You'll also see how Star Trek can help us recover a deeper, more fully human gospel that embraces our humanity instead of denigrating it and echoes the call of both Spock and Christ: "Live long and prosper!" (John 10:10).
Book Synopsis Shiny Hats or Rugged Cross? (An Atheist's Libertarian Trek to Christ) by : G. Zeineldé Jordan, Se.
Download or read book Shiny Hats or Rugged Cross? (An Atheist's Libertarian Trek to Christ) written by G. Zeineldé Jordan, Se. and published by BookCountry. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiny Hats or Rugged Cross? tenders you through blissful childhood, racial acclimation, troubled teen-hood, drug-addicted adulthood, enviable fairytale romance, spirit-killing divorce. Witness complicated political and religious ideals simplify in Biblical and U.S. Constitutional harmony in a manner any layman can follow as the three-volume autobiography unfolds. Journey from red-brick northern buildings, Roanoke Island tranquility, California migration, scorching Arizona, then catapult to Georgia’s Peach-State charm while accompanying troubled youth, George Medeiros, unintentionally destined to become a spiritually harmonized man, G. Zeineldé Jordan, Se. Christian-bashing atheist activist “Jordan” becomes Christian after reexamining details of the Resurrection of Christ. He remained politically Libertarian despite religious bigots’ disgruntlement with his unending love for U. S. constitutional liberty.
Book Synopsis Teaching Toward the 24th Century by : Karen Anijar
Download or read book Teaching Toward the 24th Century written by Karen Anijar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trekkie popular culture sees Star Trek as a unifying myth. Dr Anijar explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children's lives, and the effects of utopian interpretations of Star Trek on teaching practice.
Book Synopsis The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia 1880-1884 by : Fred Richard Belk
Download or read book The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia 1880-1884 written by Fred Richard Belk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
