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Ways of the Word: Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place

Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose contours are far from clear. In Ways of the Word, a dynamic team of master preachers, Sally A. Brown and Luke A. Powery, speaks with one voice their belief that preaching is a witness to the ongoing work of God in the world.

9780800699222

$37.00
Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era

The church struggles with media. Whether it is a denomination negotiating the 24-hour news cycle or a church evaluating how online games influence the youth group, the role of media in the church, and the importance of understanding media for the church, has never been greater.

9781451472295

$29.00
Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families

Those who are afflicted as well as those who are adversely affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance...

9780800698744

$34.00
The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary

As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation. Scholars who...

9780800696573

$39.00
The Pastor: A Spirituality

Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors - whatever and...

9780800698355

$24.99
Beyond Maintenance to Mission: A Theology of the Congregation

Here, in a newly revised edition, is a powerful and pertinent guide for congregations wanting to move away from 'maintenance thinking' to powerful, creative...

9780800663261

$27.00
Proclaiming the Gospel

This volume captures central emphases of the Lutheran tradition for use in preaching, especially its distinctive use of the Bible, its Archimedean theological...

9780800663315

$24.00
Crisis Counseling: Third Edition

Crisis Counseling unites the historic skills of pastoral care and counseling with current methods of crisis intervention from the fields of psychology and...

9780800663520

$18.99
Christian Education as Evangelism

Christian Education as Evangelism provides skills and tools for evangelical outreach. Each chapter includes stories, questions for reflection, and practical...

9780800662134

$26.00
Clergy Burnout: Recovering from the 70-Hour Week...and Other Self-Defeating Practices

In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters, filled...

9780800637637

$23.00
Fire of Grace: The Healing Power of Forgiveness

Trinity Lutheran Church was burned to the ground by one of the most prolific arsonists in the history of the United States. When Paul Keller was finally apprehended and...

9780806651125

$16.00
Boundary Leaders: Leadership Skills for People of Faith

A major challenge for religious communities today lies in harnessing the commitment and energy of religious people to address larger societal issues. Key to...

9780800631949

$23.00
One Anothering, Volume 2: Building Spiritual Community in Small Groups

Ten sessions, based on such themes as "accept one another," "serve one another," "teach one another," and "honor one another."...

9780806690568

$13.99
One Anothering, Volume 3: Creating Significant Spiritual Community

Nine sessions, based on such themes as "speak truthfully to one another," "do not grumble against one another," "do not provoke one another," and "look out for...

9780806690575

$16.00
Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age

What is church? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory, with internal factions, external...

9780800636609

$24.00
Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence

Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations...

9780800636418

$18.00
The Gift and Task of Lutheran Higher Education

Why should Lutherans care whether there are any ''Lutheran'' colleges and universities? Why should people who study, teach, and work in colleges and...

9780806650234

$19.00
Aging, Spirituality, and Religion, A Handbook: Volume 1

This book examines the ways religion and spirituality are experienced by aging persons within an aging society. It aims to encompass the wholeness of the...

9780800634186

$49.00
Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Understanding one's personal issues and emotional reactions—one's "countertransference"—has long been recognized as a core competency in ministry....

9780800634544

$29.00
Healing Bodies and Souls: A Practical Guide for Congregations

As healthcare leaders widely recognize, churches are second homes to their members and ideally situated—indeed called—to serve their communities...

9780800636296

$19.00