Augsburg Fortress

Engage! Tools for Ministry in the Community

Author Dana Horrell calls on years of experience in community action to create this practical guide to help congregations reach out to their local communities. Engage! provides twenty-six practical and proven tools to help leaders develop methods and strategies to get started on a path of effective planning.

The primary audience for Engage! includes pastors, lay leaders, and members in local congregations who are engaged in community ministry.

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Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century

Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.

Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.

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Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

In Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite—pastor of The Recovery Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a person in recovery—reflects on her pilgrimage...

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In the Bleak Midwinter: Forty Meditations and Prayers for Advent and Christmas

Once again, well-known and beloved author Herbert Brokering offers spiritual nourishment, this time based on Christina Georgina Rossetti's Christmas carol,...

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The Anatomy of Grace

Combining lively prose and creative insight, pastor and radio host Peter W. Marty probes the intricacies of daily human experience and invites readers to...

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Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

This thoughtful collection of prayers emerged from Brueggemann's thirty-five years of teaching in seminaries. Full of reflection, faith, and dialogue, they...

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Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Revised and Expanded Edition

Very similar in tone and organization to Crazy Talk, the authors of Crazy Book unleash their passion, faith, and humor. This time they have their sights on the...

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The Good Grief Journal: A Journey toward Healing

Every loss “deserves a fitting grief,” Jill Alexander Essbaum assures journalers in The Good Grief Journal, a path toward healing for those who grieve. Each...

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Is That Poop on My Arm? Parenting While Christian

God meets us, and our kids, in the mess
Parenting is messy business. Joyful, but messy. When faith is combined with parenting, we double down...

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Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence

Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd tackles the Bible?s biggest dilemma. The Old Testament God of wrath and violence versus the New Testament God of love...

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Limping But Blessed: Wrestling with God after the Death of a Child

After the unexpected, accidental death of his three-year-old son, Jason Jones went on a long, painful journey to make sense of how God could have...

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When Your Spouse Dies

The death of a spouse can create emotional, spiritual, and financial chaos for the one left behind. It is a journey through grief no one wishes to make. In...

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When Your Child Dies: Healing, hopeful words for grieving parents

The loss of a child is something no parent is prepared to face. Drawing on her experience as a counselor, Theresa Huntley gives grieving parents tools to...

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Prayers for Help and Healing

For people in crisis and for their caregivers, William Barclay has written these simple, practical, and comforting prayers. Barclay's understanding of our...

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Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle, 40th Anniversary Edition

For four decades, this classic collection of tough, beautiful, and earthy prayers has lightened hearts and dared spirits to soar.

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Cross Vision Study Guide

In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A. Boyd proposed his groundbreaking "cruciform hermeneutic," a way for Christians to make sense of the violence of the...

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The Good Grief Devotional: 52 Weeks toward Hope

A wise, honest companion for the journey through grief

The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition.

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Never Said a Mumbalin' Word

This unique devotional takes the reader on a spiritual journey through Lent and Holy Week. The focus is on the Spirituals, through which the reader comes to...

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Word of Life: Introducing Lutheran Hermeneutics

Timothy J. Wengert explores the genesis of Lutheran biblical interpretation by tracing the early work and methods of Martin Luther and other Wittenberg exegetes. Their new approach led them to view Scripture in terms they called "law and gospel," to read and translate the Greek and Hebrew text, and to focus on a theology of the cross and justification by faith. Wengert then demonstrates how these approaches can used in preaching and teaching today.

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Life among the Lutherans

Based on Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues, Life among the Lutherans is a collection of stories about the struggles of ordinary people in an imperfect...

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