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  • Engaging the Gadfly

    Reflective Online, Hybrid, and In-Person Preaching in a Digital Age

    In 2020, most preachers and congregations were forced into online and hybrid preaching. We had to react quickly. For some, this adventure opened creative forms of preaching--stitches, duets, reels, and VR. For others, it was a season of just getting by--cell phones propped up on books, laptops on dining room tables. We did what we could to proclaim the good news in turbulent times. Five years ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning Together to Preach

    How to Become an Effective Preaching Coach

    Edited by John S. McClure, Allie Utley ...
    Preaching is best learned and improved when preachers receive excellent, supportive reflection on their lived experiences and sermons. For nearly ten years at Vanderbilt Divinity School a group of scholars and practicing preachers joined together to develop and hone several models of peer-group and individual coaching. In this book, they describe the key dimensions of "collaborative coaching," a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethical Approaches to Preaching

    Choosing the Best Way to Preach About Difficult Issues

    Different ethical situations require different homiletical responses. John McClure organizes recent literature on ethics and preaching into four ethical approaches. Does your situation require public moral leadership? Then a communicative ethic is best. Does your situation require the development of countercultural moral character? Then a witness ethic is best. Does your situation require ethical ... Read more

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  • Arts and Preaching

    An Aesthetic Homiletic for the Twenty-first Century

    In our highly sensory and interactive age, how might drawing upon various arts--music, film, architecture, dramatic performance, painting, fashion, and more--expand the aesthetic experience and mode of preaching? This book presents a critical, practical answer to the question. As our society becomes more visually oriented, art-seeking, and body-positive, the practice of preaching is likewise ... Read more

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  • Under the Oak Tree

    The Church as Community of Conversation in a Conflicted and Pluralistic World

    Two trends in the early twenty-first-century intersect to give this volume immediate relevance: 1) The emerging postmodern ethos in North America is calling into question many things we have taken for granted, including the purposes of the church; and 2) our time is increasingly fractious as groups with distinct worldviews become polarized and often antagonistic. Eleven noted contributors join a ... Read more

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  • Preaching Words

    144 Key Terms in Homiletics

    John McClure's Preaching Words highlights the most important ideas in homiletics and preaching, offering short explanations of these ideas, what scholars of preaching are saying about them, and how they can help in today's preaching. Topics range from elements of the sermon (introduction, body, and conclusion) to aspects of delivery, types of preaching in different Christian traditions, and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Speaking Together and with God

    Liturgy and Communicative Ethics

    Ours is a time of unprecedented pessimism regarding the possibility of achieving consensus around moral issues. Christian liturgical practices, which are grounded in a communicative economy of love and mercy, contain wisdom that might be of significant help. What difference might it make if we confessed sin (learned epistemic humility, worked at overcoming self-deception), interceded for others ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • The Making of a Leader

    Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

    You can be a great leader. Here's how.Your job title, education, and training won't make you a great leader—only God can do that. But The Making of a Leader can help you see where you are in the process and what steps you should take next. After examining the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Dr. J. Robert Clinton gained perspective on how leaders develop over a ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Permanent Revolution

    Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church

    Series Book 57 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
    A new brand of apostolic ministry for today's worldThe Permanent Revolution is a work of theological re-imagination and re-construction that draws from biblical studies, theology, organizational theory, leadership studies, and key social sciences. The book elaborates on the apostolic role rooted in the five-fold ministry from Ephesians 4 (apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teacher), ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Forgotten Ways Handbook, The: A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches

    A Practical Guide for Developing Missional Churches

    In his bestselling missional book The Forgotten Ways, internationally known missional church expert Alan Hirsch offered a vision for the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church. Now The Forgotten Ways Handbook moves beyond theory to practice, offering ways for any missionally minded person to apply the ideas contained in The Forgotten Ways to their life ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Introducing the Missional Church (Allelon Missional Series)

    What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One

    Series series Allelon Missional Series
    Many pastors and church leaders have heard the term "missional" but have only a vague idea of what it means, let alone why it might be important to them. But what does it actually mean? What does a missional church look like and how does it function? Two leading voices in the missional movement here provide an accessible introduction, showing readers how the movement developed, why it's important, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Missional Leader

    Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World

    In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk give church and denominational leaders, pastors, and clergy a clear model for leading the change necessary to create and foster a missional church focused outward to spread the message of the Gospel into the surrounding community. The Missional Leader emphasizes principles rather than institutional forms, shows readers how to move ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus