Prayers and liturgical material

Vivir para Cristo Eucaristía recoge unas charlas o meditaciones sobre el Ordinario de la Misa del venerable José Rivera Ramírez a un grupo de seminaristas en el Curso de Espiritualidad del curso1986-1987.

This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead.

Did you know that Christmas is not the only holiday celebrated in December?

Have you ever been told the story of Jesus?

This book proposes a theology of preaching from the perspective of the poor.

Remain in Your Calling explores the way the Apostle Paul negotiates and transforms existing social identities of the Corinthian Christ-followers in order to extend his gentile mission.

This book wrestles with quandaries of pastoral ministry in what psychotherapist Mary Pipher calls "e;the age of overwhelm.

What is addiction, and how do we know if we are addicted?

Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested.

Is abortion ethical?

The Letter of James is perhaps needed more than ever today.

Having studied preaching at a doctoral level and practiced the craft for more than thirty years, Brad Estep offers fifty biblically grounded, theologically informed, and congregationally contextualized sermons centered around the different seasons of the Christian year.

Church weddings, funerals, and most Sunday services reflect the values and dramas of their communities, even when the ministers are the main or sole actors.

A Sample Meditation:Loss on the Way to EnlightenmentAvoidance, rationalization, religion, reality, projection, distraction Acknowledging that we often grow tired of the painful truthabout poverty, illness, racism, discrimination,environmental ruin, and warfare,we confess that we have escaped through distraction usingfood, entertainment, alcohol, and personal isolation.

Christianity is turning brown and moving south.

We all say that we care about children.

Preaching is as dangerous and as exhilarating as careening down some class IV rapids.

The preacher's body is a tool for proclamation, a vehicle by which a sermon comes to life.

Do you ever find yourself drowning in secularization and commercialization, being pulled under as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas intermingle and fly by in a frantic blur?

This book enables worship leaders to skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and Christian veterans to the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy.

It has never been easy to preach about the cross and resurrection of Jesus, but difficulties today are particularly challenging.

This anthology of sermons is compiled from a sixty-year practice of preaching.

The modern restorative justice movement, perhaps one of the most important social movements of our time, was born in a Christian home to Christian parents, specifically to Christian peace workers striving to put their faith into action in the public arena.

"e;Like athletes, preachers carry inside them the voices of their most challenging coaches--people who have encouraged them to dig deeper, stretch farther, and more faithfully pursue their craft and calling.

Incorporating children in worship is a powerful and overlooked mark of God's kingdom.

Seventh-century Ireland is becoming a land of saints, scholars, and spiritual foster mothers as well as warriors.

Grace before meals is the prayer said most often in homes around the world, an act of worship common to every known society.

An international cast of theologians come together in this volume to offer essays in tribute to the late Stanley J.

What does it mean to preach the gospel today?

Colleges can do it.

Beyond the gifts and spirit, Christmas is a definite religious celebration.

How should a follower of Christ engage the popular media culture?

The ministry is difficult.

Western culture no longer has a broad Christian understanding.

Knowing Him by Name is a book of 336 short devotional readings based on the names and references to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

You celebrate Thanksgiving every year but what's the true essence of the celebration?

Knowing his/her letters and numbers are not enough preparations for school.

Abortion.

Many poetic works can inspire, but few, like this one, have the power to change your life.

Faithful biblical sermons not only attempt to capture what the biblical text says, but also what the text is trying to do.

Most don't make it to the deep waters of community.

Practicing Ministry in the Presence of God presents a new paradigm for church ministry--one that is based on fundamental truths of the Christian faith such as the Trinity, union with Christ, and the "e;already"e; presence of the Holy Spirit in the church.

Do you struggle to get into the Christmas spirit?

The primary purpose of Prophetic Liturgy is to inquire into the prophetic dimension of the liturgy.

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming.

While it is readily admitted that we learn in order to do, we are in need of guidance.

After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized with major depression.

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Beginning with a conversation prompted by African American scholars like Dr.

The ongoing global financial crisis was not simply the fault of the financial sector.