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Matthew: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries
Wes Allen draws together the strengths of these two approaches into a new genre of homiletical and teaching resource with a focus on the Gospel according to Matthew.
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Finding Our Way to the Truth: Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Go of Them
In Finding Our Way to the Truth, Sarah Ciavarri explores lies that masquerade as truths. They aren't obvious. They can be benign. Through personal stories, Ciavarri helps leaders recognize seven common lies, such as "People must like me" and "I'm responsible for it all." She then outlines a three-step process for unmasking each lie--pay attention, examine, and apply the learning. When we let go of the lies, well-being and hope take their place.
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My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching
My Burden Is Light invites preachers to reclaim proclaiming Jesus as the goal of preaching. Satterlee argues that by preaching Jesus's life, death, and resurrection as good news, we address the issues we face. This book is foundational for preaching courses and a balm for preachers needing nourishment and renewal.
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N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic
This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. It captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than two hundred times in the text. In these pages, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates and inspires readers to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the N word.
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Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age
In Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age, John W. Wimberly Jr. draws on the experience of the business community, and on a diverse group of skilled pastors and rabbis, as he lays out the opportunities and challenges of working from home for congregations and staff, offering principles and best practices for successfully managing remote workers and ministries. This comprehensive guide will serve congregations well into the future, even as technology and circumstances change.
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Three Treatises: The Annotated Luther Study Edition
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years after, he clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In the writings Luther framed his ideas in terms that are comprehensible to clergy and people from all backgrounds.
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Lived Vocation: Stories of Faith at Work
The collection of reflections based on stories of contemporary work challenges congregational leaders to listen to the stories of Christians putting their faith into action. Hearing and reflecting on these stories will help leaders empathize with the difficulties of integrating faith in everyday life and encourage them to tell stories of their own.
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The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary
The Community Rule is an important document to emerge from Qumran. For fifty years after its discovery scholars relied predominantly on the well-preserved Cave 1 copy. Since the early 1990s, ten additional copies have become available. This is the first commentary to treat all the manuscript and the first in English since A. R. C. Leaney's in 1966.
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For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions
In For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer a process for creating biblically grounded, relevant sermons for events that arise from calendars, celebrations, or circumstances by considering the occasion, the gathered listeners, and the ways God is at work in that season.
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4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community
In 4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community, Drew Tucker builds on his definition of vocation as "meaningful, life-giving work for the world" to equip vocational explorers with the confidence and skills to examine, clarify, and affirm their purpose and identity, and ultimately to experience God's presence in and purpose for their lives.
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A Gospel for All Ages: Teaching and Preaching with the Whole Church
A Gospel for All Ages helps ministry practitioners craft messages to foster faith in people of all ages. It explores several strategies for proclaiming the gospel among intergenerational faith communities, including meaningful conversation, vibrant worship, and experiential education. Reflection questions and practical advice from experts included.
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The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition:Living Well to Life's End
The Divine Art of Dying aims to empower people who are dying to live as fully as they can until life's end. The book includes reflections from Karen Speerstra's hospice journal and essays written jointly by Speeratra and Herbert Anderson on learning to wait, letting go, giving gifts, and telling stories. Each chapter has suggestions for caregivers.
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Mansions of the Heart: Exploring Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth
In Mansions of the Heart, author R. Thomas Ashbrook tells of discovering a new path of spiritual transformation and offers seekers a way to move forward on their own spiritual paths. Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide based on Teresa of Avila's seven mansions.
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Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life
Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life explores Luther's teaching on the seven marks of the church: possession of the Word,...
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Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality
Bitter battles over the churches' stance toward its gay and lesbian members have tested the churches' fundamental orientation and even threatened to split...
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Sexual Shame: An Urgent Call to Healing
This is the book that will provide pastors and congregational leadership the tools to identify the assumptions, behaviors, and structures that promote, while...
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Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves
It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.
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Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty
Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty presents a faith-based effort to identify what sustains poverty and to organize people to work together to overcome its root causes. The result is collaborative relationships that change systems contributing to poverty. Within this process, new leadership will emerge, relationships will be enriched, and congregations will experience renewed love for people by undergoing transformation.
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Black Suffering: Silent Pain, Hidden Hope
Black Suffering articulates suffering as an everyday reality of Black life and names suffering's many manifestations, both in history and in the present moment. Harris shows the practical impact of suffering upon church leaders as they seek to forge a path forward to address this troubling issue. Black Suffering is a call to consciousness, a work that begins a larger conversation for correcting the historical weight of suffering carried by Black people.
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When the Center Does Not Hold: Leading in an Age of Polarization
Over the past forty years, polarization has permeated nearly every level of American life, including the intimate spheres of faith and interpersonal relationships. In When the Center Does Not Hold, David R. Brubaker, with contributions by colleagues Everett Brubaker, Carolyn Yoder, and Teresa Haase, offers relevant, practical mentorship on navigating polarized environments, equipping leaders to both manage themselves and effectively lead others in highly polarized and anxious systems. In this book, readers will find hope.
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