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The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being
The Contemplative Counselor extends the discourse on pastoral counseling beyond theories and techniques to include a focal description of a life lived in active...
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Couples in Conflict: A Family Systems Approach to Marriage Counseling
Perhaps no single issue is of greater importance for families in Western culture than the one of marital conflict. When couples fail to successfully negotiate...
$34.00
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The People's Work, paperback edition: A Social History of the Liturgy
Distinguished liturgical historian and theologian Frank Senn here ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics to reconstruct...
$29.00
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Proclaiming the Gospel
This volume captures central emphases of the Lutheran tradition for use in preaching, especially its distinctive use of the Bible, its Archimedean theological...
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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,...
$19.00
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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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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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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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Clergy Burnout: Recovering from the 70-Hour Week...and Other Self-Defeating Practices
In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters, filled...
$23.00
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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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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...
$26.00
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Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian Responsibility
Among the evils addressed by Christian theology, says Stephen Ray, must be the evil perpetuated by its own well-meant theologies. His important project...
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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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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...
$24.00
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Counseling Women: A Narrative, Pastoral Approach
In this signal volume, Christie Neuger offers a new feminist paradigm for radical, effective, empowering counseling for women. She contends that pastors must...
$34.00
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