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paperbackPreaching the New Testament
Edited by Ian Paul and David Wenham
The New Testament writers proclaimed their message passionately and persuasively. This volume explores how we can preach faithfully from those texts. The chapters cover the main texts and genres of the New Testament, and offer particular insightsinto the infancy narratives, parables, miracles, the Sermon on the Mount, ethics, future hope and judgment, archaeology and history, hermeneutics and the ...
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paperbackSermons That Sing
Music and the Practice of Preaching
Dynamics of Christian Worship
by Noel A Snyder
Foreword by Jeremy S BegbiePreaching and music are both regular elements of Christian worship across the theological spectrum. But they often don't interact or inform each other in meaningful ways.
In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, theologian, pastor, and musician Noel A. Snyder considers how the church's preaching might be helpfully informed by musical theory. Just as a good musical composition ...
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paperbackChrist, Baptism and the Lord's Supper
Recovering the Sacraments for Evangelical Worship
by Leonard J. Vander Zee
Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award
Baptism. The Lord's Supper. We recognize these church practices. But do we really grasp their meaning and place in Christian worship? Is our neglect of them hindering our communion with Christ? Are we missing the real drama of our salvation?
Often the object of debate, the sacraments are likewise neglected and superficially ...
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paperbackWorship by Faith Alone
Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation of Liturgy
Dynamics of Christian Worship
by Zachary M Hicks
Foreword by John Ashley NullIn every age, the church must consider what it means to gather together to worship God.
If the church is primarily the people who follow the risen Christ, then its worship should be "gospel-centered." But where might the church find an example of such worship for today?
In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, scholar, worship leader, and songwriter Zac Hicks contends ...
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paperbackThe Worship Maze
Finding a Style to Fit Your Church
by Paul A Basden
Worship has become a problem.It is the center of the Christian life, but like so much else in our kaleidoscopic late-modern world, worship has gotten complicated. Confusing. And even controversial. Church leaders and laypeople have joined the debate over "traditional," "contemporary" and a growing array of other worship styles.Pastor (and professor) Paul Basden believes worship should be the occasion ...
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paperbackWorship in an Age of Anxiety
How Churches Can Create Space for Healing
Dynamics of Christian Worship
by John Michael Jordan
The history of the theology of worship is riddled with examples of clergy and worship leaders who have sought to manipulate their parishioners' anxiety in order to spur repentance and turn people toward God. Even if such ends may be desirable—at what cost?
In Worship in an Age of Anxiety, Jordan challenges this utilitarian approach, offering a critical assessment ...
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paperbackGreat Commission, Great Compassion
Following Jesus and Loving the World
by Paul Borthwick
Foreword by Christopher J. H. WrightGo and do. Jesus commands it, and the world needs it. Word and deed go together. One without the other is not enough. We follow Jesus into all the world, and we follow his example in all we do.
Mission mobilizer Paul Borthwick shows how proclamation and demonstration of the gospel go hand in hand. God gives us the Great Commission, Matthew 28's call to go wherever Jesus sends us, making disciples ...
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paperbackBored with God
How Parents, Youth Leaders and Teachers Can Overcome Student Apathy
by Sean Dunn
You know that part of the Old Testament where the priest finds a suspicious sore on your arm and shaves a ring around it? A week later the priest takes another look to see if the skin has gotten better or if the sore has spread. If it's spreading,the priest knows you've got a big problem on your hands. Like most diseases, apathy surfaces in observable symptoms that are frustrating to its victims ...
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paperbackEvangelistic Preaching That Connects
Guidance in Shaping Fresh and Appealing Sermons
by Craig A. Loscalzo
"One problem with evangelistic sermons is that they look and sound like evangelistic sermons."So says Craig Loscalzo, respected preacher and teacher of preachers. He believes in the gospel and its unique power, but knows that today's pastors no longer proclaim the gospel in a more or less "Christian" culture. Our pluralistic setting means that the evangelistic sermons of yesterday--which ...
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