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"Renewing Your Commitment to Christ's Call" by Dr. Michael A. Milton is a concise yet powerful book that offers encouragement and guidance to pastors and their families. Originally delivered as an address to Armed Forces Chaplains and Spouses at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's The Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, the book focuses on John 21:1-22, a passage that remains relevant and inspiring to all ministers.Dr. Milton begins by acknowledging...
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While urban pastors devote time and energy to all the typical demands of ministry, they also grapple with challenges endemic to city life. Achieving a measure of balance amid these competing demands and responsibilities can be daunting. Using his experiences as a pastor in urban settings for nearly three decades, Roger J. Gench offers pastors a close look at the challenges that come from being involved in urban ministry.
Throughout, he integrates...
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Cleo LaRue is one of the best-loved preachers and writers about preaching. In past volumes, he has brought together great collections of African American preaching to showcase the best preaching from across the country. Here he offers his own insights into what makes for great preaching.
Filled with telling anecdotes, LaRue's book recognizes that while great preaching comes from somewhere, it also must go somewhere, so preachers need to use the...
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Preachers get the best of lectionary and topical series preaching with this comprehensive manual of sermon series ideas based on the Revised Common Lectionary. Designed to frame consecutive weeks of lectionary texts into seasonal and short-term series, a diverse group of twelve preachers outline multiple thematic series plans for each lectionary year. Each series plan provides a series overview, chart that outlines each segment of the series, tips...
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"This book is a clarion call for African American preachers to think more deeply about the aims and ends of their preachingnamely to stop putting so much emphasis on celebratory endings to our sermons and focus more on the substantive content in our sermons. Our so-called celebratory preaching, designed to excite the congregation into action through a highly emotional closing of the sermon, has had the opposite effect. Rather than inducing action,...
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DedicaciónEste libro está dedicado a todos aquellos que tienen un corazón para la guerra espiritual, que desean caminar en el poder y la autoridad de Jesucristo, y que anhelan ver Su Reino manifestado en la tierra. Que estas páginas sirvan como guía, fuente de aliento y catalizador para una intimidad más profunda con Dios al participar en las batallas del reino espiritual.Que este libro les traiga esperanza y seguridad a aquellos que han sentido...
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Carlosa third-generation U.S. citizen from New Jersey whose family emigrated from Colombia many years before Carlos was bornis often complimented on how articulate he is and asked how long he has been in the United States.
Deborah, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who is up for election as church treasurer, has her qualifications questioned, debated, and scrutinized by...
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You Have a Purpose. God Has a Part for You to Play in Something Big.
You were created by God, called to follow Christ, and commissioned to make disciples. When Jesus gave this commission, it wasn't a last-minute thought before he ascended into heaven. It was a mandate for all his followers to participate in a movement of God already in motion.
What is God's will for my life?
Where does my life fit into God's purpose?
If the idea that you have...
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In Mandate to Difference, renowned theologian Walter Brueggemann sets forth a new vision of the Christian church in today's world. Based on speaking engagements surrounding his critical passion and conviction that the church in this moment must set itself in tension with the rest of the world, these essays call the church to courageously defy political polarization, consumerism, and militarism.
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In the Pastoral Etiquette book every pastor or clergy will learn all the characteristic qualities that every minister of the gospel must possess . This book is fully loaded with right conduct that is expected of every child of God according to the Holy Scriptures . The book contains counselling materials that will help the average preacher or christian leader to live up to expectation , that is to say knowing how to behave properly as a man of God...
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Ray Anderson offers an inspiring call for Christian leaders to view Jesus as a model for their own ministry today. The Soul of Ministry explores the idea of ministry across denominations and discovers its soul in God's love for the world. Designed for pastors of all denominations, this book combines social biblical theology with numerous real-life anecdotes from Anderson's teaching and ministry.
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The Cape of Good Hope: The Chaplain as Missionary to the Secular Age is a book comprised of chapters first conceived as lectures in graduate school. This work is a testimony to the possibility of profundity in brevity. The Cape of Good Hope is an exploration of the evolving role of chaplaincy in today's increasingly secular world. Pastor-scholar-and Chaplain-Michael A. Milton considers the paradoxical nature of Gospel ministry within the secular sphere,...
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This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead. Based upon six major dimensions of the spiritual life found in the life of Christ and Christian tradition: The Contemplative Tradition - The Holiness Tradition - The Charismatic Tradition - The Social Justice Tradition - The Evangelical Tradition - and The Incarnational...
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The Pilgrim Preacher's Ready to Go Bible Messages provide practical, neat subjects that are professionally formatted and easily remembered. The content captures a Christian perspective and is credited theology which has been tested in both the auditorium and classroom. The sermons in this volume range in length, and cover subjects in both Testaments of the Bible. The bible version used can be easily swapped out for the user's preferred version. ...
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In Pastoral Care in the Classical Tradition, Andrew Purves argued that pastoral care and theology has long ignored Scripture and Christian doctrine, and pastoral practice has become secularized in both method and goal, the fiefdom of psychology and the social sciences. He builds further on this idea here, presenting a christological basis for ministry and pastoral theology.
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Recovering from Un-Natural Disasters is a must-read handbook for pastors and church leaders of communities who could or perhaps already have experienced an un-natural disaster, such as gun violence, suicides, or sexual abuse.
Unlike natural disasters, un-natural disasters deal with the concept of sin and require a different recovery strategy. In this book, readers will...
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Demons come into people's lives to torment them and make their lives miserable through open doors. In this book, you will discover how to shut the door against the devil and demons. If you are experiencing any form of demonic oppression, you will be set free as you read this book.
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Unlock the wisdom of Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield's cherished address with this enriching classroom edition by Dr. Michael A. Milton, a seasoned professor, pastor, and author of over 35 books. Perfectly suited for seminary educators, students, and theology enthusiasts, this invaluable resource breathes new life into Warfield's timeless message.Dr. Michael A. Milton, PhD (University of Wales), is a distinguished figure in modern Christian thought....
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Bread for the Day is a daily, use devotional resource filled with rich treasures. It offers a brief scripture reading (NRSV texts) for each day following the daily lectionary developed by the Consultation on Common Texts and presented in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. It is, dated for January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019.
Bread for the Day gives readers a prayer and hymn for each day, brief yet, helpful introductions to the seasons, table graces/meal...
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