Download or read book Divine Therapeia and the Sermon written by Neil Pembroke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Therapeutic preaching is badly in need of rehabilitation. Administering mini-doses of psychological self-help from the pulpit simply will not do. Therapeutic preaching that is theocentric draws listeners more deeply into God's healing love. It involves setting up a creative conversation between divine and human therapy. In a novel and deeply insightful way, Neil Pembroke shows how metaphors and analogues drawn from psychotherapy can be employed to draw out the power in divine therapeia."
Download or read book Divine Therapeia and the Sermon written by Neil Pembroke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic preaching is badly in need of rehabilitation. Administering mini-doses of psychological self-help from the pulpit simply will not do. Therapeutic preaching that is theocentric draws listeners more deeply into God's healing love. It involves setting up a creative conversation between divine and human therapy. In a novel and deeply insightful way, Neil Pembroke shows how metaphors and analogues drawn from psychotherapy can be employed to draw out the power in divine therapeia.
Download or read book Towards Friendship Shaped Communities A Practical Theology of Friendship written by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and incisive exploration of the place and nature of friendship in both its personal and civic dimensions In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a constructive and insightful exploration of the place and nature of friendship as innate to being human, to the human vocation, and to life within the broader community. Of particular interest to members and leaders of faith communities, this book responds to contemporary concerns regarding relationality and offers a comprehensive theology of friendship. The author provides an inclusive and interdisciplinary study that brings previous traditions and texts into dialogue with contemporary contexts and concerns, including examples from Indigenous and Euro-Western cultures. Readers will reflect on the theology of friendship and the interrelationship between friendship and community, think critically about their own social and theological imagination, and develop an integrative approach to theological reflection that draws on Don Browning’s Fundamental Practical Theology. Integrating philosophical, anthropological, and theological perspectives on the study of friendship, this book presents: A thorough introduction to contemporary questions on friendship and discussions of co-existing friendship worlds Comprehensive explorations of friendship in first and second testament writings, as well as friendship within classical and Christian traditions Practical discussions of theology, friendship, and the social imagination, including explorations of mutuality and spirit-shaped friendships Considerations for outworking friendship ideals within communities of practice, from the perspective of strategic (or fully) practical theology Perfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate students taking courses on friendship or practical theology, Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars of practical theology and community practitioners, including ministers, priests, pastors, spiritual advisors, and counselors.
Download or read book Shaped for Service written by Paul Goodliff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the English-speaking Western world alone, thousands of men and women begin formal training for Christian ministry each year, or informally, seek to equip themselves for pastoral ministry. Over the past fifty years, the ancient world of virtue ethics has been reimagined as a means of forming people of character and morality today, and in this book, it is used as the framework to understand what we are doing as we form Christian ministers now, and how we might strengthen that formation by more consciously linking the practices of ministry with the person, spirituality, and wisdom of the practitioner. Writing out of the context of a lifetime of pastoral ministry and the oversight of ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Paul Goodliff explores what pastors do and who they are called to be, using a mixture of theological and pastoral inquiry, reflections upon art, and personal story. This book will be of interest to those who are charged with forming the next generation of ministers; but anyone starting out on that journey of formation for ministry will also find this vision of ministry challenging and inspiring.
Download or read book Ever Hear of Feuerbach written by Mark Ellingsen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity is in decline in North America and Europe. Polls indicate that in the US the fastest-growing segment of the American population is the religiously unaffiliated (the so-called Nones). Why is this happening? Mark Ellingsen calls our attention to a previously overlooked reason--the flawed theology and Christian education material used in most mainline churches. These approaches forfeit the transcendence of God. They logically fall prey to the claim of German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (and his student Karl Marx) that Christianity is nothing more than a bunch of teachings that human beings have made up. Insofar as this is a message the public has been hearing, little wonder Christianity in America and Europe is losing ground! Though his main concern is to get church and academy talking about this problem and to prod us to do something about it, Ellingsen proposes a way out of this mess. Drawing on insights from the neo-orthodox, postliberal, progressive evangelical, and black church traditions, he offers a proposal that succeeds in making clear that God is more than how we experience him. He invites readers to explore with him the exciting possibility that a theological use of the scientific method could be employed to make a case for the plausibility of Christian faith.
Download or read book Divine Healing Sermons written by Aimee Semple McPherson and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Messages delivered during healing meetings In 1915, Aimee Semple McPherson began traveling around the United States, holding tent revivals, with some crowds reaching well over thirty thousand people. The tent revivals of this vivacious and spirited speaker would last weeks in any given city across the country. She used a brass band, choirs, and props of all sorts in her sermons. During McPherson’s ministry, tens of thousands of people were healed when she prayed for them, but she herself took no credit for the healings, instead giving full credit to God. She insisted that divine healing was not found in the emergency room, the world of entertainment, or the scientist’s laboratory; it was a church sacrament, accessible by faith and devotion alone. Divine Healing Sermons is a collection of the messages McPherson preached during her amazing ministry. They remain as powerful and accessible today as they were a century ago.
Download or read book Divine Healing Sermons Classic Reprint written by Aimee Semple McPherson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Divine Healing Sermons Unto the sick and the suffering, whose weary, thorn-pierced feet have trod affliction's rugged path unto the weak who have need of strength, and unto the strong whose heart would fain be skilled in faith to render succor to the weak, this book is loving ly dedicated in the Name of Him who gave Himself for us and by Whose stripes we are made whole. Day and night I have but to close these eyes of mine to see again, through misty tears, the drawn, white, pain-blanched faces of the afflicted of my people. One moment I am all a-weeping for the multitudes shut outside the crowded doors and for the thousands we could never reach, though we toiled day and night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Her Own Story written by Paul Wesley Chilcote and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an anthology of early Methodist women's writings from about 1730-1815. This anthology brings us in touch with a lost heritage that has transformational value in the life of the church today.
Download or read book Divine Healing Sermons written by McPherson Aimee Semple and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Divine Order written by Thomas Jones and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sermons and addresses offers a profound exploration of the nature of God and the Christian faith. Drawing on a variety of theological traditions and scriptural passages, Jones provides a fresh and insightful perspective on the meaning and purpose of life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Divine Paraclete written by Thomas Scott Preston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Divine Paraclete: A Short Series of Sermons Upon the Person and Office of the Holy Ghost Who draws true souls to Himself more and more. The world of faith is His kingdom, where the realities of divine revelation are felt and appreciated. By Him we are taken out of the world of sense, and taught to live the true life which is in God. To Him we owe all our supernatural being, from its first beginning to its glorious end. Deep should be our gratitude and ardent our devotion to this blessed Spirit, by whose breath we are new born, and by whose strength our souls are made meet for the inheritance of light. The whole economy of grace is found in this devo tion, and in the knowledge which flows from it. The church, with all its gifts, is the sphere of the sanctifying energy of the Holy Ghost and no one can properly believe in the person and office of the divine Paraclete who does not receive the Catholic Church as the body of Christ, and enter by the open door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Divine Paraclete written by Thomas Preston and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the Holy Ghost, in the church and in the hearts of the faithful, is the great study, as it is the great joy, of the enlightened intellect. The better we understand it, the more entirely are we brought under the gracious influence of "the Lord and giver of life," who draws true souls to Himself more and more. The world of faith is His kingdom, where the realities of divine revelation are felt and appreciated. By Him we are taken out of the world of sense, and taught to live the true lifewhich is in God. To Him we owe all our supernatural being, from its first beginning to its glorious end. Deep should be our gratitude and ardent our devotion to this blessed Spirit, by whose breath we are new born, and by whose strength our souls are made meet for the inheritance of light. The whole economy of grace is found in this devotion, and in the knowledge which flows from it. The church, with all its gifts, is the sphere of the sanctifying energy of the Holy Ghost. We speak of grace, but we forget the divine Person whose presence and power confer grace upon us. The object, then, of this devotion isto awaken our consciousness with a personal love, with fidelity of conscience, and with the fervor of punctual and exact obedience. The motives of this devotion are these. The Holy Ghost is the fountain of all divine Truth to the church and to us. The church which teaches is guided by His assistance; the church which believes can therefore never err in faith. Pastors and people, by the active and passive infallibility which comes from the Holy Ghost, are for ever kept from error. He is also the sole source of our sanctification. The Sanctifier dwelling in the church gives it the note of sanctity, and, dwelling in us, makes us partakers of His sanctifying grace. He is also the author of our supernatural life, which, in our regeneration and our renewal, elevates us to union with God. Lastly, He is the giver of all grace to the innocent and to the penitent. The innocent are kept by Him in their baptismal purity and piety, and the penitent by miracles of grace are raised again by Him from spiritual death. For all these motives we owe to Him love, worship, and obedience.
Download or read book Jesus the Healer Divine written by Clarence H. Erickson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of John Wesley Sermons II 34 70 written by John Wesley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the culmination of years of exhaustive research, it is the purpose of these conclusive volumes to keep alive the growing interest in Wesleyan studies for the entire Christian church. -- Amazon.com.
Download or read book Spirit led Preaching written by Greg Heisler and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A closer look at the Holy Spirit's role in sermon preparation and delivery, Spirit-Led Preaching helps pastors and professors better emphasize the important combination of Word and Spirit when sharing the gospel.
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