Product Description: In each of the chapters of this book Freeman carefully opens up the text with an introductory statement. He then shares the historical background and the theological theme of the text and continues with commentary that amplifies and illustrates the passage for contemporary preaching...read more

Product Description: Author Richard Gribble has the great gift of telling a story that reveals the meaning of a scriptural text. Most of these sermons begin with a story that captures the reader's or listener's attention. While the story illustrations are fascinating, they do not detract from the thrust of the gospel text, but rather enhance it and provide cogent reasons for applying the lesson to one's own life...read more

Product Description: These sermons are written to be preached. They are inspired, practical, and filled with fascinating illustrations that keep members of a congregation listening for more. Leonard Mann writes that the ""... purpose of this small book [is] to examine some preludes to Pentecost...read more

Product Description: ""Sometimes in order to move people past their old bad habits and past their old repetitive sins and past their old wicked ways, God has to shake up some mountains. God has to empty some places that used to be full. God has to take away some blessings and leave a barren land...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These messages based on the Gospel of Luke are presented in a variety of styles: First person monologues Short tales to prove a point Traditional three-point manuscript A style unique to the author The focus is always on the scriptural passage and Wales always attempts to provide a strong exposition of its meaning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Richard Patt's sermons enable the reader/listener to perceive new truths in old stories. As one reads them, it might be tempting to challenge Patt's observations, to argue against him, to debate his approach ... but one is never bored...read more

Product Description: Ormond looks at scripture in a new way and uncovers extraordinary inspiration through his penetrating insights. There is a surprise for the reader/listener in each sermon/chapter as the author explores the Bible passages. Sermon titles include: An Extremely Odd Couple -- Luke 18:1-8 When Self-Esteem Gets Out Of Hand -- Luke 18:9-14 Topsy-Turvy Christianity -- Luke 6:20-31 One Bride For Seven Brothers -- Luke 20:27-38 Good News Among The Rubble -- Luke 21:5-19 J...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Robert Hines has a gift for bringing scripture down to earth where families bicker, where men and women get stressed out, where children fight over a toy, where reality is stranger than fiction. And into each situation he brings the hard-hitting message of the prophets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sometimes we limp between doubt and certainty between assurance and confusion, between realism and surrealism in our spiritual journey ... The prophetic task is to cut through the machinations, doubts and deception created by spiritual ambiguity The experiences of Elijah, Elisha, and Amos shared in this book of sermons are lessons for the people of God and the church today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For many years Professor Hoyer was editor and writer for Currents In Theology And Mission. In that publication he called the homiletical section ""Preaching Helps."" But he explained that the emphasis was to be put on the second word...read more

Product Description: Some musicians come along and the music speaks to a particular decade. The lyrics of David span the centuries... His lyrics endure and forever surface in our liturgy. (from Chapter seven) The ten sermons in this book are based on texts primarily from 1 and 2 Samuel...read more

Product Description: There are no communication gimmicks or rhetorical techniques used to hook the hearer. I have sought instead to depend on the message of the biblical passage itself ... Coming at the message of the Bible with such comments has led me to use (at least implicitly) two criteria to test each sermon: 1) Did Jesus have to die on the cross for this sermon to be preached? and 2) Does this sermon convey true comfort to real sinners? (From the preface) With the above in mind, Kolden offers 11 sermons for the first third of the Season after Pentecost, starting with Pentecost Sunday...read more

Product Description: Jesus spoke to people whose ""hearts have grown dull, and their ears hard of hearing"" -- like today's churchgoers who think they know what the preacher is going to say before the sermon begins. These sermons use parable and paradox, narrative and humor, imagination and solid biblical scholarship to tell the good news people don't expect to hear...read more

Product Description: These sermons are based on First Lesson lectionary texts for the first third of the Season after Pentecost, Cycle A. [Bob Cueni's] preaching meets the unspoken criteria most pew residents bring to a church sanctuary: 1) biblically rooted, 2) easy to understand, 3) tells me something about myself that I feel God wants me to know, and 4) encourages me to believe that I can apply this truth to my life...read more

Product Description: Many who preach from the lectionary are drawn to the gospel for their sermon focus. Yet Steve Burt's alluring treatment of these first lesson texts will stimulate the desire to proclaim the captivating tales drawn from these Old Testament lessons...read more

Product Description: The fascination of story telling is felt in these eleven sermons for the Pentecost season. Vibrantly illustrated, they powerfully communicate the good news of God's love. Wolkenhauer writes, ""The use of story in preaching can be a memorable way to proclaim the Gospel...read more

Product Description: This volume makes clear why Robert Grilley has won awards and wide acclaim for his preaching. These messages bring the reality of God to contemporary life. He listens as we sometimes speak of how difficult it is to find God and how we receive only veiled glimpses of His glory...read more

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Product Description: Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, writes Sue Anne Steffey Morrow. ""As we ... deepen our understanding of wisdom's ways, it is my hope that our knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptures will be deepened, and our awe for the one God be magnified...read more

Product Description: Book by Kolsti, Arthur H.

Product Description: Somewhere within each of us is a great hunger, a great empty space which will never be filled until we identify it correctly. It is a hunger for God, writes Charles Curley. ""Nothing else can fill the emptiness which that hunger creates...read more

Product Description: Faith, hope and love are the abiding attributes of the Christian life. Most of us proclaim faith and love consistently, writes John P. Rossing. ""But ... we may be guilty of neglecting the third great gift God has given us. During the closing Sundays of the church year we have an opportunity to declare our hope boldly...read more

Product Description: One of the mysteries of life is how God's spirit can take hold of us, and change us. Writes Leonard H. Budd. ""Think of this force in your life as the Spirit's tether. In my mind, a tether is the image of the Counselor that Jesus promised...read more

Product Description: God always has been the Great Provider. He provides for us in the midst of our abundance. He provides for us in the midst of our agony, our time of temptation, our hour of despair. He celebrates with us when our jogs triumph over our tears...read more