Download or read book Personal Poems from a Practical Preacher written by Rev. Larry E. Hudson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Personal Poems from a Practical Preacher is a collection of poems generated by the author based on experiences accrued over 22 years of military travel. Easily relatable, these daily, practical occurrences will inspire, motivate, and encourage readers to push past the pain of personal struggling and suffering in secret. About the Author Rev. Larry E. Hudson has seen and heard many stories by serving as a pastor and being deeply involved with families and their personal struggles. As a teacher in high school, he has served as a father figure to many who were struggling.

Download or read book Paint Your Future written by Edith Perry and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of writing this poetry book is to reach out to those who are children of God and those who do not know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior. Jesus is the only one who can save you from your sins so you can have abundant life now and eternal life forever. She prays these poems will help you stay on the battlefield of righteousness to defeat Satan with God’s word and encourage others to become children of God to receive the promises he has for them. Her poetry is a spiritual expression of pulpit sermons and life experiences. She is hopeful after reading these poems; the readers are inspired, equip, educate, and motivated to live a life of righteousness, a life of celebration, a life of overcoming obstacles in their everyday living, a life that will bring about change through sorrow and victories that will allow the reader to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Download or read book The Tie That Binds written by Jon Carleton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tie That Binds is a compilation of poems written over the lifetime of a Congregationalist minister. The poet and preacher, Richard Carleton, tells us about his faith from day to day, talking about love, philosophy, children, family, and his memories. Within these personal reflections, he speaks of the mystery and eloquence of God. He creates extraordinary pictures of God from the ordinary events in our lives. This is the key! Richard Carleton lets us know that God is central to his thinking and feeling and living. It is both a refuge for him and an exhortation for the rest of us. If you were to accept--just for the time it takes to read these verses--that God is a real part of our lives, you might see your acceptance of our Creator and Redeemer assume a new and expanded reality: God as the underlying force! These poems let you see a man of deep faith, and at the same time, ask yourself about your own faith.

Download or read book The Pastor as Minor Poet written by M. Craig Barnes and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today s pastors often expected to be multitasking marvels who can make their churches "successful" are understandably confused about their role. Craig Barnes contends that the true calling of a pastor is to assist others in becoming fully alive in Christ to be a "minor poet." The pastor absorbs the wisdom of major poets the biblical poets as well as the church s theological poets and distills its essence for parishioners. / The Pastor as Minor Poet calls pastors to continually search for a deeper, truer understanding of what they see both in the text of Scripture and in the text of their parishioners' lives. Discerning the subtexts beneath these texts reveals the core truths that allow pastors to preach the heart of the Word and to understand the hearts of the people to whom they minister. Written with a seasoned pastor s depth of understanding and a poet's sensibility and sensitivity, this book will minister to and inspire pastors everywhere.

Download or read book Poetry Practical Theology and Reflective Practice written by Mark Pryce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing professional development. In the contemporary drive in all professions for greater rigour in education, training, and development, little attention is paid to the inner shape of learning and meaning-making for individuals and groups, especially ways in which individuals are formed for the task of their work. Building on empirical research into the author’s professional practice, the book takes the use of poetry in clergy continuing ministerial development as a case-study to examine the value of poetry in professional learning. Setting out the advantages and limitations of poetry as a stimulant for imaginative, critical reflexivity, and formation within professional reflective practice, the study develops a practical model for group reflection around poetry, distilling pedagogical approaches for working effectively with poetry in continuing professional development. Drawing together a number of strands of thinking about poetry, Practical Theology, and reflective practice into a tightly argued study, the book is an important methodological resource. It makes available a range of primary and secondary sources, offering researchers into professional practice a model of ethnographic research in Practical Theology which embraces innovative methods for reflexivity and theological reflection, including the value of auto-ethnographic poetry.

Download or read book Proverbs from the Poet Preacher written by Ralph Vile and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the biblical book of Proverbs reveals the wisdom of an ancient king of Israel who dedicated himself to Jehovah in his youth, so too this book presents the wit and wisdom of a modern school teacher and church leader who committed himself to Christ at the age of seven. Compiled, arranged, and edited by Ralph Vile's eldest son, John, this book contains some 2,500 of Ralph's aphorisms from a fifty-year period, arranged under more than 200 topics covering the range of practical and spiritual living. A unique mix of universal truths and deeply held personal opinions from a man with a good sense of humor who loves both rhymes and paradoxical word plays, this book will amuse, challenge, and inspire general readers as it provides insights, illustrations, and reflections for pastors and speakers. RALPH VILE has spent most of his life in Luray, Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Born in Colonial Beach, Virginia and committing his life to God at the age of seven, Ralph served in the U.S. Navy and attended college where he met his wife Joanna. After brief service on the mission field in Costa Rica, the couple returned with their growing family to Virginia. There they began teaching in public schools as they raised five children and two grandchildren; furthered their educations; and served God through music, teaching, and in other leadership capacities at the Mt. Carmel Regular Baptist Church. Ralph has been writing poems, some of which have been collected in Xulon's We Are His Poets (the first volume of Valley Verses) and Let the Bells Ring Out on Christmas Morning, and proverbs for more than fifty years.

Download or read book Passionate Personal Poetry written by Fitzalbert Marius and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Colon, Panama March 1, 1922 of West Indian parents: Edwin George Marius, a carpenter; and Aldith Anzyla Marius nee Dujon, a dressmaker: both from the Island of St. Lucia, British West Indies. Was baptized a Roman Catholic at St. Joseph Church, Cristobal, Panama on March 12, 1922. Came to New York City with his family at age 3. Is the second child of five brothers and one sister. At age seven, as was the family custom, he apprenticed as a tailor (after School) until the age of sixteen. At age seven he started violin lesson, which he continued for eleven years. He was reared in the tenements of Harlem’s ghettos during the Great Depression of the 1930’s; attended Frederick Douglass Jr. High School where the Harlem Renaissance poet, Countee Cullen was one of his teachers, and inspired him to pursue a career in art. After graduating from Stuyvesant Scientific High School he studied art in New York City. He then started his college education at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Near the end of his sophomore year he enlisted in the Army, serving from December 1942 to February 1946. His overseas service was in the South Pacific, Philippines, and Japan. After discharge he completed his college education at Lincoln University graduating Cum Laud in June 1948. He worked as a tailor in New York City from 1948 to 1950; during which time he studied Medical Illustration for a year at night under Paul Peck at Hunter College and also studied clothing designing at New York Central School of Industrial Arts. In 1950 he entered Howard University Medical School in Washington D.C. graduating in 1954. He interned at Fresno County General Hospital (now University Center) Did a general surgery residency there; and spent a year with Dr. Frank Gerbode’s cardiac surgery program at Stanford University’s Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco, California. He has been in medical practice in Fresno, California since 1960; and is one the original members of the first open heart surgery teams in Fresno, which had it’s onset at Valley Children's Hospital in 1960. He is still actively practicing surgery working with the Heart Surgery teams of Saint Agnes Hospital, the Fresno Heart Hospital in Fresno, California. He is the faithful husband of Dorothy L. Marius, his loving wife; who was a dedicated Christian; a school teacher, a counselor, and a teacher of God’s word. He is the father of four boys and one girl. He is a practicing Christian, active in Bible teaching, seminars, workshops, and speaking. He was baptized on March 3, 1967 after a profession of faith in Jesus Christ at Fellowship Baptist Church, Fresno, California by Reverend Eddie M. Daniels, pastor. Presently he is a member of Family Community Church, Fresno, California, Rev. Chester L. McGensy, pastor; serving on the Christian Education Committee, teaching basic Scriptural subjects, and one of the adult teachers for the “A.M. Bible Studies Sunday School Class”. He is one of the teachers at the Fresno School of Missions, and continues to do workshops, seminars, and motivational talks. Although he is an accomplished artist in many mediums, a poet, a tailor and writer he only wants to be known as a servant of God, a loving husband, a patient father, and a godly man striving to be an example for Christ to a dying world.

Download or read book Preaching Poetry written by Rose Junior and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God gave me the gift to write poetry a long time ago. In fact, when He gives me a poem, He is talking to me first and then He wants me to share what I have learned. These poems are about real-life struggles. Although some may seem harsh, they are the truth. Jesus is a doctor and people cant get well until after they have chosen Him as their permanent physician. The enemy has more patience than we do, and he will wait 10-20 years to take you, if the keeper does not keep you. Also, many people think that what they are doing is right and they simply dont know its wrong, until someone tells them. Through poetry, God has given me the ability to show His people His truth about themselves as well as the God that can deliver. DONT FOOL YOURSELF, YOU CAN ONLY CAP SIN WITH A KEEPING GOD.

Download or read book Poetry from the Heart written by Cynthia Folston-Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite unfathomable emotional pain, betrayal by loved ones, and a vicious cycle of yearning for outwardly love and attention, healing of the heart is possible! This book is not just words penned to make someone feel good. Poetry from the Heart is a book of deeply personal expressions that reveal many of my life experiences and the deliberate obstacles that God allowed me to go through to heal myself and to help heal others. Some of the poems were directly inspired by the Holy Spirit. This is the first of several books God put in me. In the process of writing this book, I found answers to questions that I had for years. God told me years ago that I would write poetry and that it would get published in a book that would provide me with answers to many question I had. It would also open my eyes about why certain things happened in my life. As I wrote the poems, God allowed the mysteries to unfold. And just as He told me I would, I found the answers that blessed me. The poem Where is God When it Hurts? is the one that inspired me most and triggered the birthing of this book. I went through a vivid time in my life that the only way healing came was through writing what I was feeling. Out of the writings came Poetry from the Heart. For this I am so grateful. I pray that this book will be a blessing to every hand that holds it and every soul that receives it. May it bring wholeness and healing to every part of you and help to lay the foundation for discovering the answers to questions that you, too, have pondered in your heart and never shared with anyone. ... BUT GOD HE THOUGHT I WAS WORTH SAVING To God be the Glory

Download or read book The Pastor S Poems written by Randy Junker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the tragic and heroic actions that took the life of his son, Pastor Randy was given by God a gift to express his grief, his theology, and his walk with God. Randy Junker, a pastor with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, has served for over thirty-five years in three churches. He now pastors the Grand Rapids Alliance Church in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife, Debbie. They have raised four children, each one married, and have gifted the Junkers with seventeen grandchildren. Randy graduated from Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, with a BA in history and earned his MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. With his love of words, especially the words in the Word of God, he has blessed his congregation by his poetry. They have also endured his puns, which are always intended, for over twenty-five years. In June of 2009, his oldest son, Nathan, drowned while saving the life of a youth in his youth group when a mighty wind blew the student off a sandbar. This book of poetry is dedicated to his memory.

Download or read book Practice What You Preach written by Beauty and the Beast Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart. And do not rely your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know and acknowledge and recognize Him, and He will make your paths straight and smooth, removing obstacles that block your way. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord with reverent awe and obedience and turn entirely away from evil. Proverbs 3, 5-7. This memoir encapsulates forty years of poetry and is just a snippet of my transitional life's journey and ultimately putting my undeniable trust in Elohim. As you embark with me while reading these Holy Spirited inspired poems, may they strengthen your soul, spirit and heart, as they did mine, to begin applying these divine words in search of the bespoke specific purpose Elohim created you for.

Download or read book The Body and the Book written by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Preaching Poetry written by Ocell Donaldson, II and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of spiritual poetry consists of poems with scriptures, and there's a message in every poem to lift a soul's spirit. The understanding of my past life in not being a good example to my neighbor in Jesus Christ caught me by the heart, and I was reborn on how to love my neighbor, trust in God, and establish a life with Christ. I am overwhelmingly blessed with this gift from heaven. As I acknowledge him to lead us in the battle, which comes our way, he stands before us in the war that is already won, and he strengthens the circle in which we stand. I pray within these poems that, at least, one--if not all--touches our heart and soul to prepare us for the kingdom of heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ.

Download or read book Healing with Words written by George Kaliaden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do our words acquire healing powers? How do words make changes in each others brains? How do special uses of words, poetic or therapeutic, modify our thoughts, alter our feelings and transform our lives? This book introduces helping professionals to the practice of poetry therapy, highlighting the prophetic role of poets and healing professionals in our everyday life.

Download or read book Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers written by James P. Eglinton and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (18541921) is widely celebrated as one of the most eloquent divines in the Reformed tradition. Despite having preached regularly throughout his adult life, how he preached and what he thought about preaching have remained largely unknown to the many preachers who read him in the present day-until now. This book provides an English translation of Bavinck's key texts on preaching and preachers, including his only published sermon. For Bavinck, in order to preach well, one has to be a particular kind of person: someone who lives coram Deo, whose conscience and imagination are open to being powerfully stirred by both Creator and the creation, and who is steeped in Scripture. In short, he describes someone quite different from the detached, disenchanted modern Western people of Bavinck's own day. These texts provide a profound critique of modern Western culture, and describe the sense in which it often prevents its inhabitants from preaching well. Furthermore, they demonstrate both how Bavinck himself preached, and how he understood preaching within the worship service and the wider life of the church.

Download or read book Poems that Preach written by John R. Rice and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Innkeeper written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only two weeks from his crucifixion, Jesus has stopped in Bethlehem. He has returned to visit someone important—the innkeeper who made a place for Mary and Joseph the night he was born. But his greater purpose in coming is to pay a debt. What did it cost to house the Son of God? John Piper shares a tale of what might have been through the story-poem of an innkeeper whose life was forever altered by the arrival of the Son of God. Ponder the sacrifice that was made that night. Celebrate Jesus's birth and the power of his resurrection. And encounter the hope his life gives you for today—and for eternity. This imaginative story has been redesigned and makes a great gift for families.