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  • What Happens When We Die?

    Series series Little Books of Guidance
    A straightforward treatment of the only existential issue that matters from the Christian perspective.In What Happens When We Die? Tom Long provides information about the promises and convictions of the Christian gospel concerning death and life after death. He surveys in simple terms the major themes surrounding death, dying, and hope for an afterlife. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Witness of Preaching, Third Edition

    This is a newly revised edition of one of the standard introductory preaching textbooks on the market today. Beginning with a solid theological basis, veteran preacher and best-selling author Thomas G. Long offers a practical, step-by-step guide to writing a sermon. Long centers his approach around the biblical concept of witness. To be a preacher, Long posits, is to be a witness to God's work in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Pastor's Bookshelf

    Why Reading Matters for Ministry

    by Austin Carty ...
    ***Preaching Magazine***Book of the Year (2022)Hearts & Minds Best Books List (2022)Christianity Today Award of Merit in Church & Pastoral Leadership (2023)It's time to give pastors permission to read books besides the Bible.Six months into his first senior pastorate, Austin Carty sat in his office reading—not the Bible, not a commentary, not a theological tract, but a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Shall We Say?

    Evil, Suffering, and the Crisis of Faith

    Tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, diseases, wars &mdash these and other devastating forces lead Christians to ask painful questions. Is God all-powerful? Is God good? How can God allow so much innocent human suffering?These questions, taken together, have been called the "theodicy problem," and in this book Thomas Long explores what preachers can and should say in response. Long reviews the origins ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What’s Right with Preaching Today?

    The Enduring Influence of Fred B. Craddock

    Edited by Mike Graves, André Resner ...
    In 1928, when Riverside Church (NYC) pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick asked the question in Harpers Magazine, "What's the Matter with Preaching Today?" he did not know that one response to that question had just entered the world in Humboldt, Tennessee. Fred B. Craddock revolutionized preaching theory and practice by flipping pulpit logic from deductive to inductive--often called the preaching-as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Proclaiming the Parables

    Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God

    In Proclaiming the Parables, noted preacher and scholar Thomas G. Long moves away from past treatment of the parables primarily as literary devices and moves toward an emphasis on their theological impact as pointers to the kingdom of God. While the parables are indeed significant poetic literary creations that have enchanted readers over the centuries, their main power, he claims, lies in their ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hearing John's Voice

    Insights for Teaching and Preaching

    This book is written in the conviction that the church is called into being and nourished by the Word of God that comes through Scripture. But how can Scripture offer any specific guidance for hearers lives today? What are modern readers to make of the dragons and slaughtered lambs in the book of Revelation? What are we to make of a man who turns water into wine while comparing himself to bread? ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sunday Comes Every Week

    Daily Habits for the Busy Preacher

    Seasoned advice for pastors facing the weekly challenge of preparing sermonsFor pastors, a new sermon comes every week. Conventional wisdom says that pastors need to sequester themselves to prepare their weekly sermon without distraction. But veteran preacher Frank Honeycutt suggests just the opposite: prepare your sermons as part of a daily, lived experience in the community.Using the days of the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Homiletical Question

    An Introduction to Liturgical Preaching

    The Homiletical Question offers preachers, from beginning students to the most experienced, a concise introduction to lectionary-based preaching in liturgical contexts familiar to Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and others. The book demonstrates how, by answering a single, simple question each time a sermon is prepared, preachers can respond fully and faithfully to the biblical ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Text Message

    The Centrality of Scripture in Preaching

    Preaching has fallen on hard times with many questioning its relevance and even its validity as a New Testament practice. This symposium of specially commissioned essays draws together an international team of thirteen scholars and pastors to address the importance of textual preaching in the history and life of the early church, the historic church, and the contemporary church. Contributions ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accompany Them with Singing--The Christian Funeral

    Thomas Long begins this fascinating volume by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically, and then discusses recent cultural trends in funeral practices, including the rise in both cremations and memorial services. He describes the basic pattern for a funeral service, details options in funeral planning, identifies characteristics of a "good ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Preaching 34579

    A standard textbook on the art and craft of preaching. Craddock weaves history, theology, and hermeneutics into an exhaustive text on sermon preparation and preaching.Painstakingly prepared for seminary students and clergy, this book answers the fundamental question: How does one prepare and deliver a sermon? Craddock's approach is practical, but also allows for concentrated study of any ... Read more

    $20.89 USD