Download or read book Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels written by Elizabeth Michael Boyle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can an understanding of the poetics of the Gospels, together with a reading of poetry inspired by them, make the homily an art form as compelling as a poetry performance? In Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels, Elizabeth Michael Boyle, O.P., offers a preaching guide to the Sunday Lectionary using the insights of poets to enliven and elicit more powerful homilies. Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels demonstrates that not only the Fourth Gospel but also the Synoptics can be read with special understanding when they are interpreted as narrative poetry. For each Sunday, from the first Sunday in Advent through Trinity Sunday, the author offers a poet's reflection on the literary devices in the liturgical texts, and a gathering of poems about the gospel event. Chapters are "Incarnation: Advent to Epiphany, " "Redemption: Ash Wednesday through Holy Week, " "Resurrection: The Sundays of Easter, " "Transformation: Ascension to Trinity Sunday, " and "Reclaiming the Poetry of Ordinary Time."
Download or read book The Gospel Poetry written by Juanita Simmons and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Father, help us grow in understanding of your great love for us. May our thoughts, our words, and our actions every day express this love, wherever it may be. God, be merciful to us and bless us, look on us with kindness, so that the whole world may know your will, so that all nations may know your salvation. May all the people praise you, O God. We pray in Jesuss name. Amen.
Download or read book Preaching as Poetry written by Paul Scott Wilson and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is tempting for preachers in this digital age of plurality and diversity to offer quick sound bites and PowerPoint-style presentations. These tend to invite a yes or no response, as in mathematical equations. But if we are to reach Christians across the theological spectrumandinvite non-Christians to seriously consider our faith, we must take a different approach. What is needed is greater attention to poetry and images meant to communicate the beauty of the faith and the wonder and mystery of God in everyday life. We must communicate the unity of our message of faith, the divine as truth, and justice and healing as expressions of God. Preaching as poetry (theopoetic preaching) allows for the bold imagery of scripture and the gentle invitation of art. Sermons can no longer always be neatly tied up, perfectly linear, with complete answers to every question. In Preaching as Poetry Paul Scott Wilson teaches why this new approach is necessary today, and demonstrates with multiple examples how it works in real sermons. He skillfully guides the reader to incorporate the classical values of beauty, goodness and truth in every sermon, and in ways that connect with congregants and listeners today.
Download or read book A Gospel Book written by Jan Miller and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gospel Book delivers the Good News of Jesus Christ! This poetic book is filled with the Word of God, giving messages that are relevant for this current season, as some of the language is apropos. One poem is unique, in that it contains imagery that reflects Scripture, which is noted in the title. A Gospel Book is also a reflection of the author's loving relationship with the Lord, with the last poem being about the Christmas Story. In this special book you will find Jesus from cover to cover!
Download or read book Whatever Happened to Delight written by J. Barrie Shepherd and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preaching is an art, J. Barrie Shepherd argues, and the sermon is an art form, an exercise in creativity and imagination. But all too often preaching suffers from a lack of imagination and a loss of the joy and wonder that attracted the crowds to Jesus' words two thousand years ago. In this book, based on his 2003 Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School, Shepherd hopes to encourage the preacher toward a more creative vision for the sermon. His approach is spontaneous, eclectic, intuitive, and daring. Shepherd's purpose is to encourage the preacher to think of life as filled with God's presence, to search for the presence, and to use images and words to unveil that presence. The end result is a sermon that is full of astonishment and delight.
Download or read book The Scandal of the Gospel written by Charles L. Campbell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its shocking incongruities and transgressive forms, the grotesque offers an intriguing lens for exploring the scandal of the gospel and the challenges of Christian preaching. Drawing on diverse sources—from Swedish crime fiction and contemporary poetry to James Cone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Pussy Riot—this book will examine the theological, homiletical, and social implications of a grotesque gospel for contemporary preachers. The book focuses on three aspects of preaching and the grotesque: (1) the ways in which a grotesque gospel unsettles the preacher and challenges the "false patterns" that often shape Christian preaching; (2) the importance and challenges of resisting the weaponized grotesque, which dehumanizes people and furthers the power of dominant groups; (3) the incarnate Word as the carnivalesque, grotesque body of Jesus, which calls the church to become the porous and inclusive body of Christ. The Scandal of the Gospel is the written adaptation of Yale Divinity School's Beecher Lectures, given by Charles Campbell in 2018. The last chapter, "Preaching and the Environmental Grotesque," is a new addition.
Download or read book A Gospel Treasury written by Andrew Daughters and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered "Yes!" you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters for Cycle B. Use these inspirational poems in your church's worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long. This book is part of a three-part set, which follows the Lectionary cycles A, B and C. Andrew Daughters is a former pastor of Saint Alban's Episcopal church in Brentwood, a small town in California. He has served in congregations small and large in California, Nevada, and Washington. Three times the small parishes he has pastored have grown to be self-supporting strong parishes. He still is partial to the small church. He and his wife live in a home they built in the California Delta.
Download or read book Poems That Preach Teach and Reach written by Dr. Paul A. Madsen and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of poems written over many years and inspired by sermons, friends, family, Bible verses, and circumstances. They review the thoughts from sermons, they teach the lessons from the Bible, and they reach out to those who are hurting and are distressed by things that happen to them. The poems are meant to bring comfort, insight, challenge, blessing, guidance, and information to readers.
Download or read book Finally Comes the Poet written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian gospel, says Brueggemann, is too easily preached and heard. Too often technical reason and excessive religious certitude reduce the gospel to coercive, debilitating pietisms that mask the text's meaning and freeze the hearers heart. With skill and imagination, Brueggemann demonstrates how the preacher can engage in daring speech?differently voiced and therefore differently heard. This speech, as suggested by the Bible itself, is "poetic" speech, enabling the preacher to forge communion in the midst of alienation, bring healing out of guilt, and empower the hearer for "missional imagination." As an alternative to theological/homiletical discourse that is moralistic, pietistic or scholastic, Brueggemann proposes preaching that is artistic, poetic, and dramatic. The basis for the 1989 Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School, Finally Comes the Poet is a unique and transforming guide for powerful preaching.
Download or read book Preaching Poetry written by Ocell Donaldson II and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of spiritual poetry consists of poems with scriptures, and theres a message in every poem to lift a souls 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, oneif not alltouches our heart and soul to prepare us for the kingdom of heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Lectionary Poems Year A written by Scott L. Barton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of insightful, often humorous, and always grace-filled poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days. Based on one or more texts for Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms—each poem reveals surprises about God much like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. For preachers, the poems here will be a joyful springboard to the sermon, each one a mini-sermon in itself; and for people in the pews, a brand-new way of thinking about the Bible. The index of 124 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “The Once and Future Comeuppance of the Butters,” “What’s Really Original Here,” “Three Drinking Limericks,” and “They Thought It Was the Feds,” these poems will help the reader discover the God known and shown by Jesus and the earliest faith communities as amazing, abundant, boundary-pushing, and bold.
Download or read book Poetry My Bible and Me written by Raymond K Huff and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry, My Bible and Me" is a unique written book of poetry, because many of the poems are Derived directly from scripture, love and life, and provides a new and fascinating way of being understood. The poems in this book, are not just words, but they have been inspired by the gifted author thru prayer, and spirit revelation, and lifetime experiences. Never will you see such a widely fashion of poetry combined in one book, that provides, knowledge, humor, and thought provoking conversations about the topics inside. The author has been preaching and teaching the gospel for years, and was led from within to put many scriptures, and experiences in a modern form of poetry, that has already inspired many who has heard his innovative style of writing. Trust me, it will be hard to pick a favorite, and hard to stop reading the same poems over and over again, as each line takes you on ride that will keep you enthused, intrigued and excited about what's coming next. A book, you will read more than once, and you will definitely share with others. "It's so hard to pick a favorite, because many of them reach you in different ways, and you just want to read them over and over again" -T. Fisher "His poems reach across race, religion and its content is suitable for all ages" -S. Conyers "There is a healing in his poetry, that reaches the very essence of your mind and soul..." -R. Trotter "Once you start to read a poem, you are fascinated, and intrigued by what's coming next" -E. Chatman "When I read one of the poems regarding scripture, I then want to go and read the passage of scripture he writes about" -D. Conyers
Download or read book Lectionary Poems Year B written by Scott L. Barton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a second book of engaging, creative, and theologically astute poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days based on the texts for Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms. With the conviction that Scripture always proclaims something new about God, each of these 107 poems reveal a surprise, often with humor, like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. There are five new hymn texts with suggested tunes, and another poem can be a light-hearted choir anthem. For preachers, study groups, and personal devotions, the index of 128 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “Kind of Disturbed by Some of These Scriptures,” “Does Jesus Still Thumb His Nose?” and “From the KJV to Shazam!” these poems will provoke, amuse, inform, and inspire anyone who suspects the Bible’s purpose is to proclaim grace for our lives.
Download or read book Let It Go written by T.D. Jakes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.
Download or read book Full Gospel Poetry written by Valerie Jensen Gibson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-10-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Gospel Poetry is a profoundly entertaining collection of poetic sermons which promote a deeper understanding of the Bible. Questions that will hopefully be answered include: Why did God the Son, Jesus take on a flesh body like ourselves? Since God our Father in Heaven is omnipotent, then why does He permit Satan, the devil to wreak havoc here on earth? Who were the Pharisees? Does God still heal today? What is the purpose of praying in tongues? How can you protect your mind from bad thoughts? Scripture verses are built right into the rhymes and present the reader with a purpose for researching said verses, while offering their explanation, thus encouraging Bible study.
Download or read book Nice Hat thanks written by Joshua Beckman and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nice Hat. Thanks." is an innovative book based on the recorded improvised poetic collaborations between two award-winning poets, Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. "Nice Hat. Thanks. "is a collection of transcriptions of these collaborations, with poems ranging from a few words to several pages.
Download or read book Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty written by Vachel Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
