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Kindling Desire for God: Preaching as Spiritual Direction
The discipline of preaching has undergone several evolutionary moments in the past century, focusing on its purpose as being variously persuasion, explanation,...
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Crisis Counseling: Third Edition
Crisis Counseling unites the historic skills of pastoral care and counseling with current methods of crisis intervention from the fields of psychology and...
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A Field Guide for the Missional Congregation: Embarking on a Journey of Transformation
The roster of books on leadership is full of high theory and grand expositions of biblical principles. But there is precious little practical advice for regular...
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Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as Theologian
Preachers are not simple representatives of a particular theological world. Each preacher manifests characteristics that arise from that person's particular...
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The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection
Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology,...
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Church Administration: Programs, Process, Purpose
This comprehensive guide, from two experienced and thoughtful churchmen, treats each aspect of congregational governance as a sacred calling with an overriding religious mission.
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Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology
This sequel to Gordon Lathrop's highly successful Holy Things is an exercise in liturgical theology, viewing the activities of worship as a means of defining...
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Pastoral Care and Counseling with Latino/as
The Latino population is a pastorally challenging polyculture. This diversity requires spiritual caregivers to approach every Hispanic individual with...
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Preaching without Contempt: Overcoming Unintended Anti-Judaism
Marilyn Salmon's persuasive and practical work helps preachers to identify the ways that Christian preachers perpetuate the long tradition of Christian...
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A Primer on Pastoral Care
Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in...
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Preaching Parables to Postmoderns
Stiller argues that Jesus' parables, through their narrative, personal, and oral dimensions and reversal of expectations, provide unique access to Christianity...
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Boundary Leaders: Leadership Skills for People of Faith
A major challenge for religious communities today lies in harnessing the commitment and energy of religious people to address larger societal issues. Key to...
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Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling
Understanding one's personal issues and emotional reactions—one's "countertransference"—has long been recognized as a core competency in ministry....
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Ordinary Saints: An Introduction to the Christian Life, Second Edition
Theologian and ethicist Robert Benne addresses the Christian life in its religious and moral dimensions by writing about the vocation of the Christian in daily...
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Literary Companion to the Festivals
This beautiful volume offers poems and other literary readings to enhance liturgical celebration of the church's Lesser Festivals and Commemorations. Drawn...
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Preaching God's Compassion: Comforting Those Who Suffer
This is a book about human suffering and the church's efforts to minister to those who are suffering. It uses the resources of contemporary pastoral care to...
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Preaching John
The Gospel of John exhibits a peculiar Christian language and thought that need to be understood and employed in the preaching ministry. The preacher's task...
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Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance
Like all human bodies, the body of Christ that we call "church" needs to attend to its health or it may become ill. Renowned pastor, preacher, and teacher...
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The Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write about Their Faith
Dying to old roles and rising again... Sixteen men attempt to lay out what it means to be an adult male Christian. The authors move beyond old stereotypes of...
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Preaching to Every Pew: Cross-Cultural Strategies
The growing cultural diversity of American society is mirrored in the pews and parishes of mainline denominations and represents a dynamic challenge to the...
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