Prayers and liturgical material

To our knowledge nothing with The Suicide Funeral (or Memorial Service): Honoring Their Memory, Comforting Their Survivors' scope and depth has ever been published.

In A Life of Dialogue: Love Letters to My Daughters, one finds an honest, unflinching, and authentic voice that creates a unique outlook on multiple sclerosis.

If you have been born again through faith in Jesus Christ, now reckon yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ!

Throughout history Christians have prayed for the dead.

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Since Jean Lipman-Blumen's The Allure of Toxic Leaders shook the corporate world in 2005, countless articles, books, and Internet blogs have appeared on the topic.

James Douglass's writings have been recognized as among the most challenging and inspiring explorations of nonviolence and Christian discipleship in the last century.

The radical message of Jesus is that there is only one alternative to the common method of confronting violence with more violence.

With Uplifted Head: Preaching Hope is a book that exalts Christ by giving insight into the biblical teaching about hope.

The materials presented here are reflections on a variety of topics: a belief in God's suffering and the pastoral implications of this; Luther's theology of preaching; practical approaches to evangelistic preaching; pastoral advice on death and dying; apologetic preaching in a post-Christian culture on the model of Paul; effective living in the power of the Holy Spirit, striking a balance between enthusiastic service and fervent love; the image of God's love in the Old Testament; and personal exhortations.

Every Shabbat in synagogues around the world and across America, sermons from the local rabbi are an important component of worship.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

Technology is shaping our culture and controlling our lives--for better or for worse.

The central thesis of this book is that Western culture, and American culture in particular, needs an immediate change with regard to food and eating.

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

Being a pastor has its rewards and pleasures.

The Radical Disciple invites the followers of Christ to take seriously the scriptural mandate to love God and neighbor.

This analytical, polemical, and personal book creates a lively interaction between mysticism and activism.

Liturgy is the golden chore; the ineffable becomes as practical as a calendar or a loaf of bread.

Two issues in particular engaged me [when studying in seminary and graduate school].

"e;The author of Hebrews is arguing that God himself has brought about the fulfillment of these institutions through his Son's priesthood, his once-for-all sacrifice, and the new covenant he inaugurated in the last days.

"e;The divine mystery, as interpreted by Paul, offers transformation.

The nature of Jewish-Christian relations at the end of the first century has been a subject of serious study and considerable debate.

In the Labyrinth of Grief40 Words of God that Offer ComfortBrief meditations for those in sorrowWhen death enters our life, a process begins that we refer to as grieving.

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was one of the most influential preachers in the twentieth century.

A Way of Seeing invites the reader to open up his or her own way of looking at life, thereby gaining new perspectives and spiritual refreshment.

Grounded in the narrative of the loss of his own wife, Ross Hastings seeks to provide insight into the universal human condition of loss and grief .

Preaching is dramatic.

The Latino/a community continues to grow at a faster pace than any other racial or ethnic group in the country.

What if you were to look at human suffering, pain, and loss with another lens?

Anthony Acampora knows firsthand the power of Spirit-fueled compassion and the incredible impact the Word of God can have on a broken life.

This book offers a critical and constructive analysis of the contribution of Jurgen Moltmann to the field of ecotheology.

Space and time are not just terms and functions of the bigger/larger objects in our lives, but intricately woven into the cells that make up our spleen and the neurotransmitters that carry our sense of truth and integrity (or some other thing that carries that--which we have not yet figured out how to find or name just yet).

Conflict over homosexuality in Christian churches is only intensifying.

In a world marked by the effects of colonial displacements, slavery's auction block, and the modern observatory stance, can Christian theology adequately imagine racial reconciliation?

This book affirms relationship as the shared human elemental pursuit and proposes relationship as the transformative space.

In the late twentieth century and since, ecumenical discussions on the nature and unity of the church have often centered on the Eucharist.

Faith, Love, and Mercy is a selection from the weekly homilies of noted moral theologian and pastor Fr.

This collection introduces and explores "e;watershed discipleship"e; as a critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice, and features emerging voices from a generation that has grown up under the shadow of climate catastrophe.

Holy Is a Four-Letter Word responds to the need for an accessible and simple articulation of the holy life, and what it means for the collective church as well as for individual believers.

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) or Domestic Violence (DV) continues to be a perennial issue in the Black church and Christendom as a whole.

Not many theologians have had as great an impact on the study of peace and violence as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was labeled an Enemy of the State and eventually executed in April 1945.

The dimension of eternity has been lost from much contemporary religious consciousness.

Once liberal Christianity was preached in ways that defined it in the public eye.

Is abortion ethical?

Abortion.

The concept of the "e;divine sabotage"e; is the starting point for this expositional journey through Ecclesiastes.

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

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

Everyone who provides services to older adults believes in the biomedical model that addresses the body, mind, and spirit of their clients.