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Pastoral Care Emergencies

David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies...

9780800632281

$26.00
Premarital Guidance

Deeply rooted in the traditions of the church, Charles Taylor brings both the resources of faith and the skills of contemporary psychology to bear in the...

9780800627126

$23.00
Real People, Real Faith: Preaching Biblical Characters

Real People, Real Faith portrays biblical characters as multidimensional human beings who journeyed with God. Cindy Halvorson provides practical tools for creating portraits of real people whose relationship with God is like our own. Being touched by a biblical character's story can help one experience the Divine's love and care for them.

9781506469669

$18.99
Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence

Brent A. Strawn focuses on the importance of honesty in preaching, especially around three challenging Old Testament themes: sin, suffering, and violence. He makes the case that preaching honestly about these topics is critical in the church today. Without honesty regarding them, there is no way forward to reconciliation, health, and recovery. He frames this work specifically for working preachers, to help them speak to these thorny themes with depth and clarity.

9781506461267

$19.99
Turning Ourselves Inside Out: Thriving Christian Communities

Turning Ourselves Inside Out emerges from the Thriving Christian Communities Project started by the authors in 2015. In interviews with thirty-five faith communities, the authors discovered that amid great upheaval, Christ is giving us a new church. This book invites readers to listen to others' experiences and then dig deep into their own and get down to the business of dreaming God's dream and making it real.

9781506470023

$22.00
Dutiful Love: Empowering Individuals and Families Affected by Mental Illness

Dutiful Love explores the distinctive relationship between self-sacrificial love and caregiving when that duty to care extends over the course of an entire lifetime because of social limitations placed upon people with severe mental illness. The author draws upon her own experiences as the sibling of someone with mental illness. The book includes discussion questions, making it an ideal resource for individual reflection, church study groups, and college, seminary, and university classrooms.

9781506464886

$24.00
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the author’s decades of...

9781506418810

$24.00
A Formula for Parish Practice: Using the Formula of Concord in Congregations

The most up-to-date English commentary on the Formula of Concord, A Formula for Parish Practice provides helpful, concise descriptions of key theological debates and a unique weaving of historical and textual commentary with modern Lutheran experience. Covering the entire Formula of Concord the book includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

9781506427034

$39.00
The Preached God: Proclamation in Word and Sacrament

The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen.

9781506427256

$39.00
Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry

Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.

9780800699291

$29.00
The End of Hope--The Beginning: Narratives of Hope in the Face of Death and Trauma

A skilled and compassionate storyteller, McCarroll introduces readers to five expressions of hope through detailed and poignant case studies.

9780800699666

$29.00
Empowering Couples: A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care

This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations.

9780800663421

$22.00
Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark

This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story...

9780800698317

$29.00
Becoming an Anti-Racist Church: Journeying toward Wholeness

Martin Luther King's observation that 11 a.m. on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week remains all too true. Christians addressing racism in American...

9780800664602

$27.00
The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader

Written by Mark Pierson, one of the pioneers in worship curation, this exciting new book explains why effective worship needs to be seen as an art form made up...

9781451400847

$19.00
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...

9780800697679

$29.00
Finding Language and Imagery: Words for Holy Speech

Sermons use words. And though it appears obvious that preachers should be careful and exacting in word choice, novice preachers often set aside this aspect of...

9780800663537

$18.00
Serving the Word: Preaching in Worship

This book invites the reader to see how God's word can become the crux not only of the sermon but of the worship service as a whole. Over the past half-century,...

9780800661984

$18.00
Interpreting the Bible: Approaching the Text in Preparation for Preaching

This volume provides preaching students and clergy with introductory knowledge of current approaches and methods in biblical studies, familiarity with the...

9780800663544

$18.00
Determining the Form

This fifth title in the Elements of Preaching series offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic forms and provides...

9780800604448

$19.00