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The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's finest preachers presents a collection of forty timeless addresses to guide us through the year. With his characteristic eloquence and compassion, quoting from scripture as well as from T.S. Eliot and Woody Allen, Gomes offers us the tools we need to understand the wisdom of the Bible and the joy and inspiration it can bring to everyday life.
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The Pilgrim Preacher's Bible Sermon Outlines on Revival, Evangelism, and Assurance. The Pilgrim Preacher's Bible Sermon Outlines provide practical, neat subjects that are ready to print or copy with a simple format and easy recall. The content captures a Christian perspective and is credited theology, which has been tested in both the auditorium and classroom. The sermons in this volume range in length, and cover subjects in both testaments of the...
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On top of all the responsibilities that comprise their vocation, pastors must write sermons that are original, insightful, useful, challenging, and comforting, once a week. Sermon Preparation explores the art and craft of sitting down to a blank page and writing a message that nourishes and speaks truth to the listener. Every chapter, written by an expert in the field, provides insights and techniques that are the result of years of sermon preparation.
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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.
The options presented here are practical and theologically responsible. Some are rooted in ancient forms of proclamation; others are new. All provide clear but creative guidance...
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Sermon Fire Starters II, a companion volume to Sermon Fire Starters, provides thirty additional lessons by Rev. William A. Scott based on his popular weekly Radio Teaching Ministry. This book will help the reader guide his or her community in gaining a deeper knowledge of the Bible and the theology derived from it; developing a worldview that enhances all areas of life; nurturing knowledge acquisition, critical thinking, informed discussion, and personal...
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Everyone wants to live in a good moral society where people are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, but we are all doing the wrong things: name-calling, pointing fingers at one another, and fighting among ourselves. In order for a society to remain just and morally good, we must take our instruction and guidance from Christ and learn of his ways and grow in his knowledge and wisdom.
Living the Christian life the way God has intended is quickly...
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Emphasizing the historical distance between the New Testament and our contemporary culture, The Sermon on the Mount by Scot McKnight, part of the new The Story of God Bible Commentary series, offers helpful contextual insights for those seeking to discern how to live out the Bible in today's world. Perfect for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people alike, this highly anticipated series provides a clear and compelling exposition...
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The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus Christ's most well-known sermon and could more accurately be called a "mountain of a sermon". It gives directives on living for Jesus' kingdom, covering such issues as loving your enemies, praying effectively, advancing God's will, and submitting to Christ's authority. In this series, Pastor Skip Heitzig takes us through these instructions on holy living and how they should affect our everyday lives.
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How is the follower of Jesus to understand the words of the Old Testament? How are those words relevant to the New Covenant he is establishing? What might the words of the Lord's Prayer have conveyed to his initial followers, and why is that historical information essential to the prayer two millennia later?
In Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine takes a detailed and colorful overview of Matthew 5-7, collectively known as Jesus's Sermon on the...
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Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, Volume 1, originally published in Pink's monthly Studies in the Scriptures. As in all his writings, Pink clearly and accurately describes the truth of Jesus' teaching to the multitudes so many years ago, and how His teaching is still very relevant to us today.
Volume 1 covers the entire fifth chapter of Matthew: the Beatitudes, the Ministerial Office, and Christ's explaining the original intent of the Law (correcting...
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This book is a Christian training book that can be used to teach a 40-week course through the Sermon on the Mount. It can also be used for general reading and learning the core truths Jesus taught the original 12 disciples that transitioned them out of the Jewish worldview to the heavenly kingdom worldview He came to inaugurate. The foundational truths Jesus taught are still relevant today for the disciples of Jesus to grow from a spiritual babe to...
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Preaching is an integral part of every church service, and its purpose has always been to edify, encourage, and to emphasize the positive effects of coming together, as a people of God. Yet, there remains an inconsistency between the intended goals of preaching and the subjective perception of the listeners. In this homiletical study, Dr. Enoh Šeba provides fresh insight into the "turn to the listener" model and offers a theologically sustainable...
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Three contemporary, humorous parables of a preacher who struggles with his need to change
Sam the preacher wonders what has gone wrong with his sermons. Are people still listening? Well-known storyteller and communications professor Calvin Miller combines his fiction writing with his insight into preaching to address the changes faced by today's preachers, especially the fact that contemporary congregations have shifted to a different way of listening....
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The Sermon on the Mount was possibly the first of the teachings of Jesus to his disciples,recorded in the New Testament. Here he outlines the nine Beatitudes concerning mercy,humility, honesty, generosity which are necessary for living. Quran, Gods Revelation to the Prophet Muhammad also details the characteristics necessary for living, and they are no different. Dr. Bell emphasizes the similarities between Christianity and Islam by examining the...
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Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, Volume 2, originally published in Pink's monthly Studies in the Scriptures. As in all his writings, Pink clearly and accurately describes the truth of Jesus' teaching to the multitudes so many years ago, and how His teaching is still very relevant to us today.
Volume 2 covers the entire sixth chapter of Matthew: Alms, Prayer, Fasting, Covetousness, The Single Eye, Serving God, and Anxiety Forbidden.
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Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, Volume 3, originally published in Pink's monthly Studies in the Scriptures. As in all his writings, Pink clearly and accurately describes the truth of Jesus' teaching to the multitudes so many years ago, and how His teaching is still very relevant to us today.
Volume 3 covers the entire seventh chapter of Matthew: Judging Others, Helping Erring Brethren, Unlawful Liberality, Seeking Grace, The Golden Rule, The...
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Designed as a resource for church Bible classes and personal study, The Sermon on the Mount: Explorations in Christian Practice (Cypress Bible Study Series) carefully considers how Jesus' most famous sermon presents the life of a disciple. Scholar Ed Gallagher argues that the Sermon on the Mount is full of difficult sayings from Jesus that make Christians squirmy even to discuss, partly because his sayings are not quite difficult enough. If only they...
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What did Jesus teach? Distilled from years of study and lecture, affirmed by nearly a million readers over the last fifty years, Emmet Fox's answer in The Sermon on the Mount is simple. The Bible is a "textbook of metaphysics" and the teachings of Jesus express--without dogma--a practical approach for the development of the soul and for the shaping of our lives into what we really wish them to be. For Fox, Jesus was "no sentimental dreamer, no mere...
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Many pastors, students, and teachers have come to know and depend upon James Montgomery Boice's scholarly yet accessible commentaries on the most popular books of the Bible. Here is an addition to the Boice commentaries that has a unique focus. Instead of examining an entire book of the Bible, it provides listeners with an in-depth look into Matthew 5—7, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. As with his other commentaries, Boice explains the meaning of the...