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56 Devotions on Short Notice
Type: BOOK
Author: Wallace, Robert A.
Author: Wallace, Robert A.
Resource designed for people who are asked, on short notice, to lead a brief devotional or worship service. Each 20-minute service is complete on 2 facing pages for easy presentation. Each includes a call to worship, prayer, scripture, suggested hymn, meditation, and closing prayer.
Arriving at a Message
Type: VHS
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Arriving at a message. Explores methods to distill a message.
Celebration and Experience in Preaching
Type: BOOK
Author: Mitchell, Henry H.
Author: Mitchell, Henry H.
Shows how to use imagination, emotive expression, and the sermon celebration to meet the emotional and rational needs of people in your congregation. Demonstrates using sermon celebration within literary genres to involve the hearer holistically. Synthesizes recent homiletics developments with the best of the African-American pulpit tradition. Opens your eyes to fresh possibilities and offers helpful sample sermons.
Designing the Sermon
Type: VHS
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Explores 3 formats of sermons, and inspires with many questions that lead to imagination, creativity, playfulness and artistry in your sermon. Includes activities to enhance the design of your sermon and communication skills and imagination.
Forbid Them Not: Involving Children in Sunday Worship
Type: BOOK
Author: Brown, Carolyn C.
Author: Brown, Carolyn C.
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Children
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Children's Ministry
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Children's Sermons
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General
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Lectionary
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Sermon Helps
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Welcoming / Reaching Outside the Church
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Worship
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Shows how to create meaningful worship experiences for EVERYONE who comes to your church - children, youth, and adults. Based on Common Lectionary texts Offers ways to present Scripture and the whole service so that children can really "hear" the message.
Friends for Life: A Treasure of Stories for Worship and Other Gatherings
Type: BOOK
Author: Williams, Michelle E.
Author: Williams, Michelle E.
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Bible/Bible Stories
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Church Year
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Depression
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General
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Multicultural
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Sermon Helps
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Service
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Storytelling
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Worship
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52 memorable, enchanting and inspiring stories - one for each Sunday of the year, drawn from the Bible, historical people, and from many different cultures. Offers tips on how to use the stories and on what settings are best.
Getting Into the Text
Type: VHS
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Introduction followed by 7 steps ro creating a sermon. This tape explores many ways to get into a text, including the mood, texture, background, context, parameters of the text, exploring exegetical format, and questioning.
Getting Out of the Text
Type: VHS
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
Author: Craddock and Reinhold
This tape explores how to get out of the text and into today's world. Includes reflection, methods of interpretation, activities to discover what's clear and relevant to listeners.
Getting to Know a Loving God
Type: BOOK
Author: Fellers, John E.
Author: Fellers, John E.
Opens our heart to new understandings of God's love. In 12 essays with warm stories and keen insights, letting God be God, and accepting others as God accepts us. For adult Sunday school, inspirational material, sermon starters and others.
God Names Hallowed, The: The Lord's Prayer for Today
Type: BOOK
Author: Killinger, John
Author: Killinger, John
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Bible Study
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Clergy
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General
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Lord's Prayer
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Prayer
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Sermon Helps
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Small Groups
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Spiritual Growth
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One of America's favorite preachers takes us step-by-step on a journey through the Lord's Prayer. Focuses on each individual phrase, provides lay readers, Sunday school teachers, Bible study groups, and clergy new insights into Christianity's most beloved and important prayer.
Great Preachers, Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor
Type: VHS
Author: Taylor, Barbara Brown
Author: Taylor, Barbara Brown
Barbara Brown taylor is an Episcopal priest noted for her almost poetic style of preaching. She was invited to give the Beecher Lectures on preaching at Yale University, an honor given to those considered the top preachers in the country.
Great Preachers, Rev. Billy Graham
Type: VHS
Author: Graham, Billy
Author: Graham, Billy
Graham is an evangelist, considered a preacher because he has preached personally to more people than has any other person in the history of Christianity.
Great Preachers, Rev. Dr. Gardner C. Taylor
Type: VHS
Author: Taylor, Gardner C.
Author: Taylor, Gardner C.
Taylor is Pastor Emeritus of Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY. He is considered dean of African-American preachers and poet laureate of the American church.
Great Preachers, Rev. Dr. Haddon Robinson
Type: VHS
Author: Robinson, Haddon
Author: Robinson, Haddon
Robinson is Harold Okenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological School. He is a noted evangelical who has been a leader in applying communication theory tot eh craft of preaching. His text on preaching is used in over 90 seminaries and Bible colleges.
Great Preachers, Rev. Dr. James Forbes
Type: VHS
Author: Forbes, James
Author: Forbes, James
Forbes is Senior Minister of Riverside Church, New York City. He is African-American with a Pentecostal background and was the first Joe R. Engle professor of preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Great Preachers, Rev. Dr. John R. W. Stott
Type: VHS
Author: Stott, John R. W.
Author: Stott, John R. W.
Stott is President of the Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church, London. He is an Anglican clergyman who is considered one of the leading evangelical thinkers in the world.
Great Preachers, Rev. Dr. Thomas Long
Type: VHS
Author: Long, Thomas
Author: Long, Thomas
Long is Professor of Preaching at Princeton Theological School. He is Presbyterian in background and noted for his ability to inspire and help students refine their preaching skills.
Great Preachers, Rev. Fred Chaddock
Type: VHS
Author: Chaddock, Fred
Author: Chaddock, Fred
Rev. Chaddock is Professor Emeritus of Preaching and New Testament, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Noted for his storytelling ability, Dr. Craddock is Christian Church, Disciples of Christ minister.
Great Preachers, Rev. Walter Burghardt, S. J.
Type: VHS
Author: Burgharde, Walter
Author: Burgharde, Walter
Burghardt is a Roman Catholic Jesuit note for his preaching on social justice and his widely acclaimed seminars on preaching for Catholic priests.
Great Preachers, Rev. William Williamson
Type: VHS
Author: Williamson, William
Author: Williamson, William
Dr. Williamson is Deal of the Chapel, Duke University. He is a United Methodist minister and professor at Duke. He is author of 37 books.