Prayers and liturgical material

Youth ministry has increasingly lost touch with its origins in the way of Jesus and the social practices intrinsic to Christian discipleship, and has instead substituted layers of "e;Jesus talk,"e; middle class values, fun and games, and doses of "e;warm fellow-feeling.

Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian.

Bring the otherworldly mystery of spiritual reality down to earth.

Trygve Johnson invites us to consider a new metaphor of identity of The Preacher as Liturgical Artist.

The Bible teems with nonhuman life, from its opening pages with God's creation of animals on the same day and out of the same earth as humans to its closing apocalyptic scenes of horses riding out of the sky.

Colleges can do it.

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

Black women are strong.

What does it mean to preach the gospel today?

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

Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics is a well-accepted approach to contemporary bioethics.

Preaching has fallen on hard times with many questioning its relevance and even its validity as a New Testament practice.

Does social justice promote Christian unity?

In Building a Community of Interpreters Walter Dickhaut argues that the practice of reading (and, by extension, listening) is no less creative than the practice of writing (and speaking); readers and hearers, just as much as writers and speakers, are producers of meaning.

We the Storytellers provides examples and techniques for expressing deeply held beliefs through the oldest form of communication--stories.

"e;Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Critiques of the environmental ramifications of the early Genesis narrative by environmental thinkers such as Aldo Leopold, Ian McHarg, and Lynn White underscore a long-standing tension between the environmental movement and Western Christianity.

"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.

The Eastern Christian liturgical tradition of Lent has long included the chanting of the Songs of Ascents (Pss 120-134) as "e;entrance songs"e; of not only the special penance service known as the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, but also of the season of repentance.

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

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity.

Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact.

In the decade after 9/11, Rev.

The ritual of eating and drinking together is one of the most important Christian events.

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

Preachers are often caught in a double bind--they would like to be more witty and creative, but they aren't sure whether these capacities fit with the serious business of preaching the gospel.

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Praise at home.

With Christ in the School of Prayer: It is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the Christian life is too little understood that this book has been written.

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension of His perfections as revealed in Holy Scripture.

Smith Wigglesworth was a British evangelist who was important in the early history of Pentecostalism.

Arthur W.

There is the holy and most glorious God who invites us to come to him, to hold converse with him, to ask from him such things as we need, and to experience what a blessing there is in fellowship with him.

The ministry of prayer has been the peculiar distinction of all of God's saints.

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism.

Tens of thousands of Christians have gotten up and gone to bed with Charles Spurgeon's devotional Morning and Evening.

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, saith the Lord.

Here is a delightful women's devotional that will remind you that God is faithful and His mercies are new every morning.

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest.

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest.

The Meaning of Marriage .

In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St.

Saint Paul declares, "e;Live by the Spirit"e; (Gal 5:6).

Consistently Pro-Life is a book about killing.

The Christ Letter is a conversation partner for pastors and students of the Bible who want to wrestle with the meaning of the biblical text for Christian living today.

Dance in Scripture: How Biblical Dancers Can Revolutionize Worship Today examines the dances of seven biblical figures: Miriam, Jephthah's daughter, David, the Shulamite, Judith, Salome, and Jesus.

Conservative evangelical women are least likely to be trained in the areas of teaching and preaching.

The condition of stuck is a condition well known by pastoral caregivers and leaders.