Augsburg Fortress

Scripture Out Loud!: Dramatic Readings for Lent and Easter

Looking for new ways to open up the readings for your congregation? Try this collection of twelve dramatic readings of Revised Common Lectionary texts that fall between Ash Wednesday...

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Preaching at the Crossroads: How the World—and Our Preaching—Is Changing

David Lose takes preachers on a tour of the major cultural influences of the last century, exploring how they offer opportunities to cultivate a more relevant faith in the twenty-first century.

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The Church in Act: Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation

This book explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action.

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Holy Conversation: Spirituality for Worship

Despite widespread interest in spirituality, its most common corporate form, congregational worship, is rarely discussed in those terms.

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Theology Is for Proclamation

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Literary Companion to the Lectionary: Readings Throughout the Year

This beautiful book offers poems and literary pieces for Sundays and principal feasts throughout the liturgical year. Each selection relates to an aspect of...

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Ritual and Pastoral Care

Pastoral counseling can be imbued with a sense of community and of the transcendent; there is no surer way for this to happen than through a vital and...

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Preaching Mark

An expert guide from Galillee to Jerusalem This new resource examines the major literary units of Mark's Gospel with an eye toward helping the pastor in...

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El Uso de los Medios de Gracia: The Use of the Means of Grace (Spanish Edition)

Este documento fue adoptado en la Asamblea Nacional de la Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en América en el 1997 para ser utilizado como guía en las prácticas sacramentales de la iglesia.

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Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies...

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Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon

Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached—the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says...

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Best Advice for Preaching

A bright new resource for the working preacher, Best Advice for Preaching garners the preaching wisdom of America's most outstanding preachers and...

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Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary

In Treasures Old and New Gail Ramshaw illuminates forty primary images from the three-year lectionary. With each of the images she considers related terms,...

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Introduction to Christian Liturgy

Designed as a general introduction to Christian liturgy, this book explores the meaning, history, and practice of worship in Eastern and Western, Catholic and Protestant traditions...

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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...

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Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation

Teresa L. Fry Brown introduces preachers to the effective use of voice and body in the animation of the word in the preaching moment. Suggestions and exercises...

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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...

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Augustine's Theology of Preaching

How do the theological convictions that Augustine brought to his preaching challenge, sustain, or shape our work today? By presenting Augustine's thought on preaching to contemporary readers Sanlon contributes a major new piece to the ongoing reconsideration of preaching in the modern day.

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A Field Guide to Contemporary Worship: How to Begin and Lead Band-Based Worship

This is a must-have guide for anyone thinking about starting a contemporary worship service and an essential reference work for those wondering about the nuts and bolts of instrumentation...

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The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader

Written by Mark Pierson, one of the pioneers in worship curation, this exciting new book explains why effective worship needs to be seen as an art form made up...

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