Product Description: Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church, so that they no longer find it adequate as a social structure for the celebration of their faith...read more

Product Description: Do you long for a closer relationship with God but don't know where to start? Have you ever felt awkward or frustrated when you tried to pray? You are not alone. Many Christians are insecure about their prayer life. John Killinger, a former pastor and professor, is well qualified to give step-by-step instructions for how to pray...read more

Product Description: Both as a preacher and as a writer, John Killinger is known particularly for his vivid, life-changing stories. Stories that Have Shaped My Life and Ministry is a collection of 21 stories the author says have greatly altered his own life...read more

Product Description: Christmas is such a glorious time of the year. Even with the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, meal planning, and card writing, our hearts feel lighter and the atmosphere is charged with excitement. It is the time of year that we await and plan and celebrate Christ's birth...read more

After teaching for a number of years, John Killinger, eager to be a pastor, was offered a church in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was in the 1980s when Jerry Falwell had a congregation there. Falwell had just started the Moral Majority movement and had helped to get Ronald Reagan elected president. In 1983, a Good Housekeeping national poll rated Jerry Falwell the second most respected man in America after Reagan.John Killinger’s new book is in part a picture of Falwell and an exploration of his influence from the unique standpoint of a “rival” minister who says that his experience of his Lynchburg years is what soon turned him into one of Fundamentalism’s most trenchant and outspoken critics.This is a fascinating story told with great grace and style about two very different men of faith, both struggling to capture hearts, minds, and souls.

Product Description: In the world today, churches and church members are often diverted from their central mission of loving others and interpreting life through the vision of Jesus Christ. If Christians Were Really Christian shows that with the message we have been given and the spirit of God to lead us, we should have led everyone to the kingdom of God...read more

Product Description: In this title, Killinger examines all seven novels and observes how Rowling adheres to the Christian narrative. Examining all the Harry Potter novels, John Killinger points out the consistent way in which author J.K. Rowling follows the story of Christ in the Gospels with Harry as a Christ-figure...read more

Product Description: "War would be wonderful if...for the sake of Global Safety and Security in the 21st Century...we could, collectively, learn to fight with timely tactics of Constructive Self-Criticism and Creative Caring. But current strategies Miss the Mark! We must develop New Heart-Ware and explode Missiles of Meaning filled with Soul-Searching Shrapnel that effectively counters: Ego-Centered Thinking, Self-Destructive Fears, and Lack of Combat with Corporate Myths, Earth-Shaking Political Pot-Holes, Raging Religious Ruminations, and Mangled/Simplistic Presumptions that money-making-greed is the Way-to-Wonder in a World of Wars!" Chaplain/Colonel Don Reeves, USAFR (Ret...read more

Product Description: Spiritually rich, easy to use prayers and responses for the community at worship Responsive Prayer for Epiphany Leader: Today, O God, we remember the wise men who came to see the Christ Child at his birth. People: We remember their gifts and wonder what we ourselves can give...read more

Product Description: John Killinger, author of Ten Things I Learned Wrong from a Conservative Church, offers this insightful, very honest, and even sometimes humorous look at the most important things all seminarians need to know—and aren't learning in seminary.

Product Description: David. Many people share the name, but when it is used singularly even those unfamiliar with the Old Testament know of whom it speaks. Shepherd boy, warrior, giant-slayer, king, adulterer. A man after God's own heart. That's the mystery of David's story...read more

A noted Presbyterian minister defends the Harry Potter series from conservatives who denounce the books as paganism, demonstrating how they promote the values of faith and morality, and profiling the main character as a Christ figure who battles the forces of darkness. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In this eloquent memoir, one of the grand figures of conservative Protestantism reveals what he learned from his upbringing and how, with trust in God and compassion for others, his faith matured. With gentle humor and compassion, Killinger shows how faith is a constant, even as beliefs and the world around us change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 365 Simple Gifts from God

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Originally published in 1983, Fundamentals of Preaching has been a leading comprehensive textbook on preaching, guiding in the novice from the first steps of conceiving the sermon through the actual construction and delivery of it. In this new, revised form, it continues its outstanding qualities, with much input from recent homiletical studies and from the preaching of women.

Product Description: The title of John Killinger's newest book, Preaching To A Church In Crisis, is meant to underline the uniqueness of the present situation in mainline Protestantism, and perhaps the urgency of it, but not to sensationalize it. He makes the point that inasmuch as the mainline churches for so many years established the social and political norms in our country, as well as the spiritual norms, any crisis in their existence becomes a major crisis in modern Christendom, and, by extension, in American life as a whole...read more

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A young woman artist travels through the South painting religious paintings of great power and changing the lives of those she meets, but ultimately gets caught up in the media's need to create celebrities