Download or read book Stories and Parables for Preachers and Teachers written by Paul Wharton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of brief stories for those who wish to share their faith: preachers, teachers, spiritual directors, catechists, and parents.
Download or read book A World of Stories for Preachers and Teachers written by William J. Bausch and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an indispensible resource for homilists"-- Cover back.
Download or read book Parables for Preachers Year B The Gospel of Mark written by Barbara E. Reid and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parables of Jesus are puzzling sayings and stories with world-transforming potential. Parables for Preachersoffers an understanding of how parables work and a fresh variety of possible meanings not only for Jesus's original audience and for the early Christians for whom Matthew, Mark, and Luke wrote but also for contemporary Christians as well. The Gospel parables are analyzed in the order in which they appear in the Lectionary, making this book an indispensable resource for preachers, teachers, catechists, liturgy planners, and Bible study groups. Barbara Reid is Professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. She is the author of Matthewin the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series as well as Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke, both published by Liturgical Press.
Download or read book Stories That Sneak Up on You written by John Duckworth and published by Fleming H. Revell Company. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this creative and humorous collection of devotions and illustrations can be "sneakily" applied to entertain any age, but are especially appropriate for youth and youth adult groups.
Download or read book World of Stories written by William J. Bausch and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 350 tales drawn from different cultural settings and literary genres, and two indices - one thematic and one Lectionary-based - makes this an indispensable resource for homilists.
Download or read book Illustrations written by David W. Jones and published by Valjean Press. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three frogs are sitting on a log. Two decide to jump. How many frogs are left? Three. Deciding to jump means nothing. Action is everything. Poignant stories, parables, and quotes can not only bring life to a sermon, speech, or presentation, they can help the hearers to take flight and go from listeners to doers.
Download or read book Parables for Preachers written by Barbara E. Reid and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parables of Jesus are puzzling sayings and stories with world-transforming potential. Parables for Preachers offers an understanding of how parables work and a fresh variety of possible meanings not only for Jesus's original audience and for the early Christians for whom Matthew, Mark, and Luke wrote but also for contemporary Christians as well. The Gospel parables are analyzed in the order in which they appear in the Lectionary, making this book an indispensable resource for preachers, teachers, catechists, liturgy planners, and Bible study groups. Barbara Reid is Professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. She is the author of Matthew in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series as well as Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke, both published by Liturgical Press.
Download or read book Preaching the Parables written by Richard Louie Sheffield and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Sheffield preaches and writes with clarity and conviction. He has a rare gift of interpreting parables so they are accessible to his audience while retaining their heavenly truth for our lives. He has a heart for God, and that comes through in this book. Rev. David E. Gray Former Acting Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor Presbyterian Chaplain, American University When Richard Sheffield sang "I Love to Tell the Story" as a child, he never dreamed that he would end up telling that age-old story for his life's work. Yet "telling the story" is a vital form of communication for preachers and the most effective way to reach audiences with God's powerful plan of salvation. People love to hear stories, sing about stories, and tell stories -- but above all, they remember stories! Jesus knew this; indeed, he was a master storyteller himself. Jesus' most powerful sermons -- the parables -- were simply earthly stories with heavenly meanings, using such common imagery as salt and light, sheep, a mustard seed, weeds, lamps with oil, and workers in a vineyard. Preaching the Parables expands on fourteen of Jesus' parables appearing in Cycle A of the Revised Common Lectionary and brings them into a more modern setting. In Sheffield's hands, the stories he loves to tell are as varied as familiar songs in the hymnal: he uses the children's song "The Wise Man Built His House upon the Rock" as a springboard for a vivid portrayal of the difference between wise and foolish builders; "This Little Light of Mine" provides further insight into Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5; and the plaintive wail of "The Ninety and Nine" reminds us -- just like Luke 15 -- that if we were the only wandering sheep, our wonderful shepherd would seek for us until we were found. The parables of Jesus as familiar, predictable Sunday school stories? Not when Richard Sheffield is doing the preaching and teaching! This book is must reading for Christians who seek a lifelong Christ-centered faith. Ginny Thornburgh Director of Religion and Disability Program, National Organization on Disability Member, Board of Trustees, Princeton Theological Seminary Richard Louie Sheffield is senior pastor of Georgetown Presbyterian Church in Washington DC. He has previously served congregations in Ohio, Massachusetts, and New York. Sheffield holds degrees from Georgia State University (A.B.), the University of Chicago (M.B.A.), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (D.Min.).
Download or read book Parables and Precepts for Preachers and Teachers written by James Wareham and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proclaiming the Parables written by Thomas G. Long and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Proclaiming the Parables, noted preacher and scholar Thomas G. Long moves away from past treatment of the parables primarily as literary devices and moves toward an emphasis on their theological impact as pointers to the kingdom of God. While the parables are indeed significant poetic literary creations that have enchanted readers over the centuries, their main power, he claims, lies in their disclosure of the kingdom of God, which is not merely an idea, nor even just a complex symbol with generative and centrifugal force, but an event: the inbreaking of the life of God into human history and experience. Long sees parables not merely as creative figures of speech but as GPS devices taking hearers to those places where the event of God is happening all around us. This book provides two chapters for each synoptic Gospel. The first focuses on the Gospel as a whole and the parables’ place in it, and the second provides preachers and teachers with detailed exegetical and homiletical commentary for each major parable in that Gospel. Two introductory chapters additionally situate this book in the history and theology of the parables’ interpretation and address questions that preachers have about preaching the parables. Preachers who consult this volume will be informed about each major parable, guided through the controversies regarding interpretation, and stimulated to preach on the parable in fresh, faithful, and creative ways.
Download or read book Preaching the Parables written by Craig L. Blomberg and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to preaching the parables that shows how to first interpret the parables, then proclaim their significance.
Download or read book Preaching Parables to Postmoderns written by Brian Stiller and published by Fortress Resources for Preachi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preachers, in their call to preach the Scriptures, are not only charged with the responsibility of speaking its truth but of speaking in such a way that people of this age and culture understand. To do this, the preacher builds a bridge between todays people and the gospel of both testaments. For some, this task is more difficult than for others. Preaching to those living in an inner-city housing project is far removed from an outpost mission in the two-thirds world. Each community has its own way of thinking and attaches different values to symbols of its own making. For those called preach to a generation raised on MTV and late-night comedians or those rooted in various economic culturesfrom governmentsponsored jobs overseen by union bosses to entrepreneurial dot-com companiesor generations stretching from high school students to "freedom fifty-fivers," the task is enormous. When one adds to that the complexity of a radical shift in underlying intellectual and cultural assumptions, the task of preaching becomes even more complicated.
Download or read book Creating Stories That Connect written by D. Bruce Seymour and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book helps pastors and teachers enhance their teaching with original, audience appropriate stories--the way Jesus did! Bruce Seymour explains how such stories work, when to use them, and how to create them.
Download or read book Parables and Pictures for Preachers and Teachers written by James Siddall Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parables and Pictures for Preachers and Teachers written by James S. Drummond and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parables of Jesus written by J. Dwight Pentecost and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Pentecost describes the setting of each parable, explains the problem or question it addresses, and offers Christ's solution to that issue.
Download or read book The Stories Jesus Told written by Earl C. Davis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the parables of Jesus for the Bible teacher and the busy pastor. Gives background and theology of the parables. Designed to help the bi-vocational pastor and the Bible teacher, and as a group study guide. Illustrated with modern stories from daily life as well as stories and sermons by the author.
