Prayers and liturgical material

"e;Everyone loves a good story, and So Tell Me a Story offers wise counsel to preachers and teachers who want to improve their storytelling skills.

Like sounds of beautiful music, worship can renew us for God's glory and our good by the invigorating power of God's reverberating Word.

Franz and Frederick Foltz examine how modern technology creates an environment that significantly affects Christianity by reducing the mysteries of faith to manageable techniques.

This book examines the influence of music on the development of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee).

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For Today: A Prayer When Life Gets Messy will introduce you to a profound daily prayer and various strategies and outlooks for getting through tough days--and on to higher ground.

Deeper Waters is a sermon collection--but also a manifesto.

In a world laced with the lethal threads of racism, sexism, classism, and sexual oppression we need a liberating hope that dismantles these intersecting problems that render us into a stupor of chronic despair.

How do chaplains and counselors form their identities as "e;pastoral"e; caregivers in challenging clinical contexts such as institutional, interdisciplinary, postmodern, inter-cultural, and multi-faith work environments?

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Modern life has led to an increase in traumatic deaths, such as accidents, murders, suicide, and other types of unanticipated, violent death.

To Bless Our Callings: Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation is an ecumenical collection that supports the callings of everyone within the Christian community.

The loss of a pastor throws a congregation into emotional turmoil.

Relive through reminiscing and remembering, a Maine pastor's recollections of boyhood experiences that turned into a minister's messages in old age.

How does God manifest himself in the world?

Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel.

Tupac Amaru Shakur was considered a Hip Hop prophet.

The Old Testament prophets are a neglected treasury of biblical examples for pastoral preaching.

Have you made a New Year's resolution to get married out of nowhere?

The mystery of God has fascinated people of all generations.

Whether or not we are aware of it, everyone is being "e;baptized.

This collection of essays by British Baptists honors the work of John Colwell amongst the Baptist community, recognizing in particular the contribution he has made to Christian doctrine and ethics and more recently his involvement in the formation of The Order for Baptist Ministry (OBM).

What transpires when Classical Pentecostals pray for God to intervene within their suffering, but God does not?

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

Tesfaye Gabbiso, prominent Ethiopian soloist, began composing song texts and tunes as a young lad in the early 1970s during a period of social and political upheaval in Ethiopia.

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

Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women and pastoral theology.

For centuries, evangelical Protestants and Catholics have hurled harsh epithets at each other.

Praying in the Spirit of Christ offers contemporary readers a compelling and holistic vision of what life in Christ can mean for them.

What is being done in worship when national holidays are celebrated, the American flag is displayed and honored, and songs are sung that extol the nation?

The moment the pager rings, all hell breaks loose.

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Hebrews is a powerful meditation on the gospel.

The work of a wonderful secular poet, Billy Collins, provides a great model for Christian writers.

You are holding a collection of short stories that reveal how every aspect of life takes a particular dimension when considered from the perspective of faith in relationship with everyday experiences.

This book provides pastors, seminarians, and interested laity with the background necessary to understand the need for disability ministry and the contexts out of which the church's ministry among people with disabilities must emerge.

Hidden in His Own Story is an invitation to reconsider and re-imagine both the humanity and divinity of Jesus.

A collection of essays composed during the Obama presidency on politics, theology, art, and education.

Do you ever feel hopeless or depressed?

Throughout history Christians have prayed for the dead--both for continual growth of the faithful and for their advancement from purgatory, though not for the deliverance of the unsaved from hell.

Every soul carries within itself pain caused by the hurtful words and acts of another human being.

Transgender people are among the most marginalized and vulnerable populations in the world.

Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America is the work of James Atwood, a retired Presbyterian pastor and an avid deer hunter for half a century who has also been in the forefront of the faith community's fight for two constitutional rights: the right to keep and bear arms and the right to live in domestic tranquility, free of gun violence.

How does starting with women's statements that "e;God was there"e; in the moment of wartime violence shift the ways we think about religion, conflict, and healing?

In his first book, The End of the Island, Jeffrey C.

Beginning in the 1970s evangelical Christians decided to become involved in our nation's political life by becoming Republican partisans.

This book uses the metaphor of walking to gain insight into the spiritual life.

This collection of essays by British Baptists honors the work of Christopher Ellis amongst the Baptist community, recognizing in particular the contribution he has made to the practice and theology of Free Church worship.

If you are passionate about participating in the recovery of preaching for the spiritual formation of God's people, then you will want to jump into this lively collection of biblically rigorous, culturally intuitive, grace-drenched sermons.