A Pastor's Notes
Author: Joseph Parker
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781935932239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of blogs relies on Scriptures to clarify God's call to protect the lives of the unborn.
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Christians Against Christianity
Author: Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0807057401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.
The Pastor's Book
Author: R. Kent Hughes
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2015-10-14
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 143354590X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPastors are tasked with the incredibly demanding job of caring for the spiritual, emotional, and, at times‚ physical needs of their people. While seminary is helpful preparation for many of the challenges pastors face, there’s far more to pastoral ministry than what can be covered in the classroom. Designed as a reference guide for nearly every situation a pastor will face, this comprehensive book by seasoned pastors Kent Hughes and Doug O’Donnell is packed full of biblical wisdom and practical guidance related to the reality of pastoral ministry in the trenches. From officiating weddings to conducting funerals to visiting the sick, this book will equip pastors and church leaders with the knowledge they need to effectively minister to their flocks, both within the walls of the church and beyond.
A Little Book for New Theologians
Author: Kelly M. Kapic
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0830866701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this quick and vibrant little book, Kelly Kapic presents the nature, method and manners of theological study for newcomers to the field. He emphasizes that theology is more than a school of thought about God, but an endeavor that affects who we are. "Theology is about life," writes Kapic. "It is not a conversation our souls can afford to avoid."
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor
Author: D. A. Carson
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2008-02-05
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1433522101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKD. A. Carson's father was a pioneering church-planter and pastor in Quebec. But still, an ordinary pastor-except that he ministered during the decades that brought French Canada from the brutal challenges of persecution and imprisonment for Baptist ministers to spectacular growth and revival in the 1970s. It is a story, and an era, that few in the English-speaking world know anything about. But through Tom Carson's journals and written prayers, and the narrative and historical background supplied by his son, readers will be given a firsthand account of not only this trying time in North American church history, but of one pastor's life and times, dreams and disappointments. With words that will ring true for every person who has devoted themselves to the Lord's work, this unique book serves to remind readers that though the sacrifices of serving God are great, the sweetness of living a faithful, obedient life is greater still.
A Sermon Notebook
Author: Judson Press
Publisher:
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780817014629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReplace those Sunday bulletins you use for taking notes with this beautiful resource for permanent note keeping. Here is the perfect notebook to help recall and revisit the memorable messages heard on Sunday morning and at other times. Spiral bound for ease of use, each notebook is durable and meant to last. Space is provided to record the date, speaker, title of the sermon, relevant Scripture passages, and personal reflections for over a year. Great also for Bible study notes and for use in sermon preparation. You will wonder how you managed without it.
How to Preach without Notes
Author: Charles W. Koller
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2007-09-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1441201459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a classic that has stood the test of time. For forty-five years, seminary students and pastors have benefited from the principles found in this book. Two of Koller's popular texts, Expository Preaching without Notes and Sermons Preached without Notes, are combined in a single volume that allows preachers to prepare and deliver sermons without being tied to a manuscript or even outlines or notes. Among the eighteen topics discussed are the biblical conception of preaching, the advantages of preaching without notes, homiletical devices, the importance of structure, and the systematic filing of materials. Now repackaged for the next generation of preachers, with a foreword by current Northern Seminary preaching professor Michael J. Quicke, How to Preach without Notes is poised to continue its history of strong and steady sales.
Notes of a Pastoral Counselor
Author: Robert Marsden Knight
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-05-09
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you a more concrete or abstract thinker? And what does that have to do with effective psychotherapy? Or what about the theological concepts of monotheism versus polytheism? Which is a projection of a more integrated psychological perspective? What are you grieving? What you lost? Or wanted/needed but didn’t get? What do moral and spiritual have to do with what is psychological? Or counseling with the golf swing? Are you a more positive, a more thankful person, or perhaps more negative, even resentful of whatever the circumstances? Are you more of a worrier or a delighter, more skeptical or encouraging? These and other human characteristics, Monty Knight speaks to in this book of short essays, three sermons—even a hymn—written out of conversations with patients, students, and parishioners over his many years of ministry as a pastoral counselor.
Some Pastors and Teachers: Reflecting a Biblical Vision of What Every Minister Is Called to Be
Author: Sinclair Ferguson
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Published: 2017-12-18
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 9781848717893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn five sections and thirty-nine chapters, Sinclair B Ferguson writes on pastor-teachers whose life and work have left an indelible mark on his own life, and then leads us in a series of chapters on the teaching of John Calvin, John Owen and the seventeenth century Puritans. This is followed by studies of Scripture, the ministry of the Spirit, the nature of Biblical Theology, the work of Christ, adoption, the nature of the Christian life and other important doctrines. The final section discusses various aspects of preaching, including preaching Christ from the Old Testament, the importance of theology, reaching the heart, and concludes with a decalogue for preachers. All this, as the epilogue makes clear, is set within the context and goal of doxology.
Redeeming Productivity
Author: Reagan Rose
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0802474632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeeling overwhelmed and unproductive? The answer isn’t to do more. What image forms in your mind when you think of productivity? An assembly line? Spreadsheets? Business suits or workplace uniforms? In the ancient world, productivity didn't conjure images like these. Instead, it referred to crop yield and fruit bearing. This agrarian imagery helps us understand productivity through a biblical lens. Jesus taught, By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit (John 15:8). Who doesn’t want to have a truly productive life—to bear much fruit? But how does this happen in the places we hold dear—the home, workplace, and in our communities? We often feel overworked and overrun, defeated and discouraged. The world says be productive so that you can get all you can out of this life. The Bible says be productive so you can gain more of the next life. In Redeeming Productivity, author Reagan Rose explores how God’s glory is the purpose for which He planted us. And he shows how productivity must be firmly rooted in the gospel. Only through our connection to Christ—the True Vine—are we empowered to produce good fruit. This book shows how we can maintain the vitality of that connection through simple, life-giving disciplines. Readers will discover manageable applications like giving God the first fruits of our days. Additionally, Reagan discusses how our perspective on suffering is transformed as we see trials as God’s pruning for greater productivity.
