Spirituality and religious experience

What do you do when life makes a sharp left turn?

There are a number of misconceptions about the Bible.

';Order, by itself, normally wants to eliminate any disorder and diversity creating a narrow and cognitive rigidity in both people and systems.

Feeling unsettled or searching for peace?

How can a spiritual practice from one spiritual tradition be used wisely, respectfully, and effectively in another?

Are you looking for a study guide to help you, your small group, or your whole church understand and practice spiritual disciplines?

"e;In choosing simplicity, says Dr.

What one believes about God shapes how one worships, prays, thinks, and lives.

What is the good news?

Many small groups fumble when they try to find topics for small group meditation and study.

When she was twenty, Patricia Reis's mother asked, ';What about your spiritual life?

Does Scripture exclude women from full participation in all forms of Christian ministry simply on the basis of gender?

"e;Why do we have to learn this?

And Grace Will Lead Me Home is gift for new and seasoned journal writers alike.

The poems in this collection are offered along two related lines.

This book focuses on redemptive historical hermeneutics and homiletics within New Testament theology.

What?

On the edge of medieval maps, monsters roam.

In News from the Kingdom of God, minister and poet David Breeden introduces readers to a Jesus hidden for fifteen hundred years.

Spiritually there is a great hunger today for contemplative and more satisfying experiences with God.

What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state?

Travel through the back roads and country lanes of the British Isles with a pastor and his wife celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary.

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation.

Fostering faith in children is a shared privilege and responsibility of parents, godparents, and the church community.

Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical.

What "e;runs in the family"e;?

Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation.

Preachers mount the pulpit steps terribly burdened by the conviction that they are somehow responsible for the growth and spiritual well-being of their congregants.

What is worship?

If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "e;the right"e; and purportedly using their powers for "e;the good,"e; then Will D.

In this moving spiritual memoir, Dr.

This collection of essays considers topics in pastoral theology, pastoral care and counseling, pastoral leadership, and social work, and attends to challenges and opportunities pertaining to the support and care of persons in need.

But will it preach?

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection.

What is justice?

We yearn to be accepted and loved for who we really are.

Parktails is an adventure that takes place in the aftermath of a great forest fire.

Musings is a collection of short, easy-reading essays dealing with the challenges of life.

This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church.

This book invites the reader to experience Advent as a spiritual journey to Bethlehem, a journey from darkness to light.

The emergence of Pentecostalism in Ghana has attracted a massive following and generated institutions that have significantly impacted Christian discourse and national life.

Leaders constantly rely upon power.

Since the rise of the "e;New Homiletic"e; a generation ago, it has been recognized that sermons not only say something to listeners, they also do something.

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners.

The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture.

For a world so out of tune, this treatise intends to correlate from various instruments of learning, a new sound--a sound of hope.

Is it possible to find the revelatory, to find faith in a tiny blue berry?

Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr.