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Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative

Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative
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Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Preaching/Ministry/Leadership)



A veteran pastor with thirty years of experience guides readers through a ten-step process to preaching Old Testament narratives from text selection to delivery. The first edition received a Christianity Today award of merit and a Preaching magazine Book of the Year award. This edition, now updated and revised throughout for a new generation, includes a new chapter on how to preach Christ from the Old Testament and an exemplary sample sermon from Mathewson. Foreword by Haddon W. Robinson.
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Canoeing the Mountains Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory

Canoeing the Mountains Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
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Outreach Resource of the Year - Leadership

Learn to Scale the Mountains of Modern Ministry Leadership

Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt to the unexpected. They set out prepared to chart a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, only to find themselves face-to-face with the Rocky Mountains. In many ways, leadership today feels much the same. You may find yourself navigating an unfamiliar cultural landscape, leading in contexts you never anticipated. Perhaps the skills and training you once relied on feel inadequate for the journey ahead, holding you back more often than propelling you forward.

Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. In Canoeing the Mountains, Bolsinger provides a thoughtful and practical guide for leaders facing the unprecedented challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Canoeing the Mountains offers:

  • Fresh perspectives on the adaptive leadership needed to face today's challenges
  • Practical strategies to help you rethink your approach to leading in unfamiliar and shifting environments
  • An expanded study guide to help you reflect, apply, and implement these lessons in your own leadership journey
  • If you're ready to move beyond the tools that no longer serve you and embrace a new way of leading, Canoeing the Mountains will inspire and equip you to rise to the challenge. To scale the mountains of modern ministry, it's time to set aside your canoes and new navigational tools to give you confidence and courage to lead in places you never expected to find yourself.

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    June 1, 2018

    CENTER CHURCH DOING GOSPEL CENTERED MINI

    CENTER CHURCH DOING GOSPEL CENTERED MINI
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    Practical and Gospel-centered thoughts on how to have a fruitful ministry by one of America's leading and most beloved pastor.

    Many church leaders are struggling to adapt to a culture that values individuality above loyalty to a group or institution. There have been so many "church growth" and "effective ministry" books in the past few decades that it's hard to know where to start or which ones will provide useful and honest insight.

    Based on over twenty years of ministry in New York City, Timothy Keller takes a unique approach that measures a ministry's success neither by numbers nor purely by the faithfulness of its leaders, but on the biblical grounds of fruitfulness.

    Center Church outlines a balanced theological vision for ministry organized around three core commitments:

  • Gospel-centered: The gospel of grace in Jesus Christ changes everything, from our hearts to our community to the world. It completely reshapes the content, tone, and strategy of all that we do.
  • City-centered: With a positive approach toward our culture, we learn to affirm that cities are wonderful, strategic, and under-served places for gospel ministry.
  • Movement-centered: Instead of building our own tribe, we seek the prosperity and peace of our community as we are led by the Holy Spirit.
  • "Between a pastor's doctrinal beliefs and ministry practices should be a well-conceived vision for how to bring the gospel to bear on the particular cultural setting and historical moment. This is something more practical than just doctrine but much more theological than "how-to steps" for carrying out a ministry. Once this vision is in place, it leads church leaders to make good decisions on how to worship, disciple, evangelize, serve, and engage culture in their field of ministry--whether in a city, suburb, or small town." -- Tim Keller, Core Church

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    September 4, 2012

    CHRISTIANITY INCORPORATED OP!

    CHRISTIANITY INCORPORATED OP!
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    These days "getting religion" is generally considered a rather quaint thing of the past. "Getting spirituality," on the other hand, is the hottest thing on the market. In fact, corporate-sponsored spiritual salve is becoming the most popular prescription for the overworked and soul-weary employee. But for many Christians, this antidote has become its own epidemic. How is this epidemic infecting the church? How should the church respond as a community of believers?According to authors Michael Budde and Robert Brimlow, the church must resist becoming the "chaplain to capitalism." In their new book, Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business Is Buying the Church, they remind us that Christ-centered discipleship is fundamentally at odds with consumer capitalist priorities. The church must have a mission and a voice in society that is distinct from, rather than in chorus with, watered-down corporate spirituality. Finally, they turn to the Sermon on the Mount as a reminder of Jesus' attitude toward wealth and spiritual wholeness.Christianity Incorporated is a wake-up call for all Christians. Courageous, current, and accessible, this book will attract the attention of business people, pastors, and lay members of the church.Anyone concerned with pursuing Christian discipleship in a consumer culture will find guidance and insight here.
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    Church Multiplication Guide Revised

    Church Multiplication Guide Revised
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    This book is very practical in addressing the areas of church multiplication and reproduction from ten points of view in response to Jesus’ command. "As our teams apply the Biblical principles explained in these pages we see fruit: disciples are made, churches are born and multiply." - Kevin Sutter, Church Planting Coach, Youth With A Mission
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    January 1, 1900

    COMMUNICATING FOR A CHANGE

    COMMUNICATING FOR A CHANGE
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    When You Talk, Are People Changed?

    Whether you speak from the pulpit, podium, or the front of a classroom, you don't need much more than blank stares and faraway looks to tell you you're not connecting. Take heart before your audience takes leave! You can convey your message in the powerful, life-changing way it deserves to be told. An insightful, entertaining parable that's an excellent guide for any speaker, Communicating for a Change takes a simple approach to delivering effectively. Join Pastor Ray as he discovers that the secrets to successful speaking are parallel to the lessons a trucker learns on the road. By knowing your destination before you leave (identifying the one basic premise of your message), using your blinkers (making transitions obvious), and implementing five other practical points, you'll drive your message home every time!

    "Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

    "Once upon a time..."

    "In the beginning..."

    Great stories capture and hold an audience's attention from start to finish. Why should it be any different when you stand up to speak?

    In Communicating for a Change, Andy Stanley and Lane Jones offer a unique strategy for communicators seeking to deliver captivating and practical messages. In this highly creative presentation, the authors unpack seven concepts that will empower you to engage and impact your audience in a way that leaves them wanting more.

    "Whether you are a senior pastor with weekly teaching responsibilities or a student pastor who has bern charged with engaging the hearts and minds of high school students, this book is a must-read."
    -Bill Hybels, Senior pastor, Willow Creak Community Church

    "A very practical resource for every biblical communicator who wants to go from good to great."
    -Ed Young, Senior pastor, Fellowship Church, Grapevine, Texas

    "To communicate effectively, you have to connect. Andy has been connecting with people for years, and now he's sharing his insights with the rest of us."
    -Jeff Foxworthy, Comedian

    Story Behind the Book

    Andy Stanley and Lane Jones are on staff at one of America 's largest churches, North Point Community. Leaders of thousands of people, they regularly speak in front of large groups. They also listen to numerous speakers and know the disastrous effects of a poorly delivered message. This book is the result of their efforts to make public speaking--one of the most common fear-inducing activities known to mankind--simple, easy, and even enjoyable, so that God's messages will readily produce the life-changing results they should.

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    COMMUNICATION THEORY FOR CHRISTIAN WITNE

    COMMUNICATION THEORY FOR CHRISTIAN WITNE
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    In this revision of a long-enduring classic, Kraft draws upon faith experience and the social sciences to make pastors, preachers, missionaries, and religious educators aware of the mystery of human communication in the service of God who calls all into communion. The question is how to communicate with these other cultures so that the message is effectively transmitted and received? How to we recognize the gaps--of language, tradition, life experience--that separate us and build bridges over them.

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    CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

    CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH
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    In this book Ralph Wood calls for churches to offer a sustained an unapologetically Christian witness to a postmodern world. Wood carefully chronicles how the church is watching the complete destruction of post-Christian institutions and practices that once shaped human character toward fulfillment in goods larger than humanity's own self-interest - the chief of these being the worship and service of God. Wood contends that Christian existence can never be taken for granted, and so the church itself must seek to create a Christian culture that offers the world a drastic alternative to its own cultureless existence.

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    Cultural Apologetics Renewing the Christian Voice Conscience & Imagination in a Disenchanted World

    Cultural Apologetics Renewing the Christian Voice Conscience & Imagination in a Disenchanted World
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    Renewing the Christian voice, conscience, and imagination so that we can become compelling witnesses of the Gospel in today's culture.

    Christianity has an image problem. While the culture we inhabit presents us with an increasingly anti-Christian and disenchanted position, the church in the West has not helped its case by becoming anti-intellectual, fragmented, and out of touch with the relevancy of Jesus to all aspects of contemporary life.

    The muting of the Christian voice, its imagination, and its collective conscience have diminished the prospect of having a genuine missionary encounter with others today.

    Cultural apologetics attempts to demonstrate not only the truth of the Gospel but also its desirability by reestablishing Christianity as the answer that satisfies our three universal human longings--truth, goodness, and beauty.

    In Cultural Apologetics, philosopher and professor Paul Gould sets forth a fresh and uplifting model for cultural engagement--rooted in the biblical account of Paul's speech in Athens--which details practical steps for establishing Christianity as both true and beautiful, reasonable and satisfying.

    You'll be introduced to:

  • The idea of cultural apologetics as distinct from traditional apologetics.
  • The path from disenchantment with how we understand reality to re-enchantment with the reality of the spiritual nature of things.
  • The practical tools of good cultural engagement: conscience, reason, and imagination.
  • Equip yourself to see, and help others see, the world as it is through the lens of the Spirit--deeply beautiful, mysterious, and sacred. With creative insights, Cultural Apologetics prepares readers to share a vision of the Christian faith that is both plausible and desirable, offering clarity for those who have become disoriented in the haze of modern Western culture.

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    Dangerous Calling Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

    Dangerous Calling Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
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    "A book every person in ministry should read." --Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

    After traveling the globe and speaking to thousands of churches worldwide, Paul David Tripp has discovered a serious problem within pastoral culture.

    Dangerous Calling reveals the truth that the culture surrounding our pastors is spiritually unhealthy--an environment that actively undermines the well-being and effectiveness of our church leaders and thus the entire church body.

    Here is a book that both diagnoses and offers cures for issues that impact every member and church leader, and gives solid strategies for fighting the all-important war that rages in our churches today.

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    January 31, 2015