Product Description: The lectionary is a helpful homiletical tool. But there are times when lectionary preaching does not meet a congregation’s needs. Sermon Treks offers preachers and students an invigorating selection of new sermon-planning trails, for use as sermon series or for single sermons...read more

Product Description: Preaching and the Other introduces the reader to six major themes characteristic of the postmodern era that are important for preaching and explains their implications.Themes discussed include: perception as interpretation, deconstruction, otherness, transgression, pluralism, and the importance of apologetics...read more

Product Description: This set includes three books by Ronald Allen and Clark Williamson: Preaching the Gospels without Blaming the Jews, Preaching the Letters without Dismissing the Law and Preaching the Old Testament. These books provide thoughtful commentaries on important biblical texts and are designed to help preachers avoid incorporating misunderstandings and stereotypes into their sermons on those texts...read more

With an emphasis on descriptive and policy-oriented text, plus a wide range of well-developed and realistic problems, EVIDENCE: Text, Problems, and Cases, Fourth Edition, presents an engaging exploration of the fundamental principles, policies, and cutting edge issues of the Federal Rules of Evidence.Refined through years of successful classroom use, this popular casebook:uses clear and concise text to develop student understanding and encourage in-depth examination of problemsfollows a consistent chapter organization that highlights basic interpretation of the Rules, elaboration of underlying policy, and reflection on theory and practiceidentifies "Key Points" to reinforce student understanding of all topicspresents a wide range of realistic problems that help students better understand the depth and complexity of the Rules of Evidenceopens with a transcript from a real criminal law case that illustrates how evidence is admitted and excluded in practicefeatures a chapter on the trial process to use independently or in tandem with the trial transcriptBe sure to notice these changes to the Fourth Edition:integration of updated Rule amendments and case law, including Crawford v. Washington (confrontation clause) and its subsequent case applications, as well as significant developments in the use of expert testimonynew problems throughout the book represent a wide range of difficulty, from the basic principles of the Rules to more challenging policy issuesthe chapter on Character Evidence is revised to provide a sharper focus on policies relating to the character ban

Product Description: Preaching, says professor and author O. Wesley Allen Jr., should be considered as a form of conversation. The church, after all, is a community of conversation that exists in part to interpret God's purposes for the world and to participate in those purposes...read more

Product Description: When the authors created the first edition of <b>Comprehensive Criminal Procedure</b>, they tied it to contemporary thinking in the field and made it reflect the realities of the course as it is actually taught, covering both investigative and adjudicative topics...read more

Product Description: When the authors of this book set about analyzing the data and reporting the findings of their extensive study on how laity hear sermons, they thought they would be sharing what listeners reported helps them enter into the meaning of a sermon and what prevents them from hearing what the preacher is saying...read more

Product Description: Hearing the Sermon is a total revolution in the "how-to's" of preaching. It is the result of an extensive study that made those who listen to sermons the teachers of effective preaching. Using Aristotelian categories of rhetoric as a basis for analyzing the effectiveness of the sermon -- the audience's perception of the of the preacher (ethos), the audience's perception that the message of the speech is true (logos), and the audience's response to the feelings and identifications generated in connection with the sermon (pathos)...read more

Product Description: The four gospels are steeped in Judaism: one cannot understand any one of them without knowledge of Jewish people, practices, scriptures, and institutions in the first century. At the same time, the gospels reflect tension and even animosity between the communities of the gospel writers and other Jewish groups, and often caricature some Jewish people, practices, and institutions to justify a separation between traditional Jewish groups and the communities of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John...read more

Product Description: Many preachers long to understand the dynamics of thought, feeling, and behavior at work in congregations. They use many techniques to evaluate the needs of their congregation and to sharpen their sermons, but preachers seldom give members of their congregation the opportunities to identify qualities of preaching that motivate them to engage sermons, and qualities of sermons that prompt disengagement...read more

Product Description: Book by Allen, Ronald J., Stuntz, William J., Hoffmann, Joseph L., Livingston, Debra A. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Preaching: it sounds like such a easy thing to do. All you have to do is step into the pulpit and talk for 20 minutes, right? Anyone who’s ever stepped into that pulpit knows that preaching is anything but easy. Speaking a word from God that is grounded in the biblical witness, theologically responsible, and true to contemporary experience is one of the most difficult things one can do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Every time a congregation gathers for worship, many different people, from different points in life, with different needs and perspectives come together; each refracting messages through their own lenses. Each person processes communication in ways that are influenced by age, gender, race, personality type, ethnicity, education, and social and economic backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this practical handbook, Ron Allen helps preachers to embody the tenets of the Christian faith in their sermons, thereby enabling their congregations to believe, live, and witness more intentionally and with more integrity. Rather than advocating a particular kind of preaching, Allen recommends that pastors pay more conscientious and critical attention to systematic theology in the preparation of their sermons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)