Mountain Preacher Stories
Mountain Preacher Stories

Author: Ben C. Fisher

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781469636627

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Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Highlander. English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish immigrants to the Appalachian region of North Carolina brought with them a rugged individualism and a sense of humor and dignity which have been characteristic of the sturdy yeoman farmer. Most mountain preachers and many of the old time mountaineers had a real talent for telling stories. While the "tall tale" is a staple of mountain storytelling, more often the tales relate to something that happened, not something just dreamed up. Mountain humor, like all folk humor, typically arises out of a life situation. Fisher's work, edited by his wife Sally following his passing, relates many of the stories and tales that he had heard over the course of his life.

A Preacher's Tales
A Preacher's Tales

Author: Henry A. Buchanan

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-09-07

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1463414501

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A Preachers Tales is a book about preachers who are unusual, sometimes eccentric people. Buchanan is one of them. In fact, a little bit of him is to be found in many, if not most of them. Buchanan is tolerant of all of them, and a few of them he even loves, or likes because they are so much like him. The prime redeeming feature in all of them is humor. Some of the things the preachers do and say are downright funny, but mostly the humor is subtle and only crops up after the reader has read and thought and reflected on what happened and what was told. Its not all humorous. Preaching is a serious business. The Preacher deals with a profound issue. He is holding Gods Hand with one hand and a mans hand with the other. What the preacher says and does may determine the course of human events because in some measure it reflects or communicates the mind and the saving grace of God. Behold here the Preacher Man at work and at play.

A Preacher's Tale
A Preacher's Tale

Author: Jon Russell

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2018-02-23

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0334056535

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Many clergy receive little training in the arts of preaching and it is assumed that they will learn by gaining experience. The renowned American preacher Herbert O’Driscoll suggests that congregations do not want to be given a map showing them how to get to the coast, they want to be drenched in the spray. Narrative preaching is a means of achieving such immediacy. By dramatic story-telling, it invites listeners into enter the text imaginatively and enables them to experience sermons as transformative events. This book aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship.

Cowboys Make Better Preachers and Other Humorous Tales of the West
Cowboys Make Better Preachers and Other Humorous Tales of the West

Author: Leo Anthony Schreven

Publisher: Pacific PressPub Assn

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780816313464

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Popular speaker and evangelist, Leo Schreven, spreads it thick with stories like this one from a time he and his flying buddies had to make an unexpected night landing. "All I could see was a lot of darkness. As Keith flew on, our friend Pete - a devout atheist - started to sweat. Above the roar of the motor he yelled, 'do you think we're going to make it?' 'I doubt it, Pete, ' I replied. He mumbled some doubts about his religious choices. As Keith began his descent, we approached what appeared to be a field. It's amazing how many things look the same in the dark when you're flying at 120 m.p.h. A nice selection of insects suddenly splattered on the windshield - a fate we seemed destined to share. Suddenly, the airplane lights picked up a new shape, a shape that grew clearer each moment. 'What in the world ... it looks like ... must be ... a TREE!' Keith performed a hammerhead roll that made my eyes sink down to my navel. behind me, Pete was now on his knees confessing his sins with tears and anguish. Keith's mumbling about going down in a blaze of glory didn't help. On our third attempt, we reached the ground in a flurry of dirt and grass. When the plane finally stopped, Keith was on the floor, Squirrel was navigating, the dog was chewing my gum and Pete announced he had decided to enter the ministry.

The Preacher’s Tales
The Preacher’s Tales

Author: Rosie Harper Austin

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 1665539984

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Entitled-felt Panther makes his home on Grandpa’s farm and intrude in the lives of Grandpa and his grandson, Monty. After committing a series of wicked acts against Monty, Panther finds himself in a life-threating situation until he is rescued by Grandpa and Monty. No longer feeling entitled, Panther is grateful to have them in his life. The Preacher’s Tales describes the storytelling experience through the eyes of eight-year-old Monty. A touching story, the book will keep young readers and adults alike entertained to the end. The generosity of a grandfather and grandson transforms crafty Panther into a caring friend.