"Beyond the Lectionary gives preachers a new year of Biblical texts that are not found on Sundays (or other mainline Protestant holy days) in the three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary. It provides readings from the Hebrew Bible, Psalms, Epistles/New Testament and Gospels for each Sunday of the liturgical year, along with several midweek observances. The texts have been selected with an eye toward continuity (progressing in order) and complementarity...

Postmodernism. Secularism. Pluralism. These are the words often used, to describe the tumultuous changes, that have affected our culture and our churches. But, what do they really mean? More importantly, what challenges and opportunities do they provide today's preachers? David Lose takes preachers on a tour of the major cultural influences of the last century, explaining how they have contributed to the diminishment of the church and exploring how...

"Preaching the Principal Festivals focuses homiletically on the six primary theological festivals of the church year, sometimes described as the principal festivals: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Holy Trinity. Central to the complicated development of lectionaries over the centuries, these festivals have anchored the church year, primarily because they are specifically enunciated in biblical materials."--

"In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for preaching in the Spirit, acclaimed homiletician Luke Powery asserts that death is the context for all preaching. In fact, the Spirit leads preachers to...

"Traditional books on preaching a book of the Bible often look at broad themes of the text with little explicit advice about preaching individual passages. Lectionary resources often offer exegetical and homiletical insights about a pericope with little attention given to broader theme and structures of the book from which the lection is taken.;In this book Wes Allen draws together the strengths of these two approaches into a new genre of homiletical...

"Hay personas que predican durante una hora y parece que hayan pasado veinte minutos, y hay otras que predican durante veinte minutos y parece que haya pasado una hora. ¿Por qué esa diferencia? Me he pasado toda la vida intentado responder a esta pregunta", afirma Haddon Robinson. ¿Qué podría ser más útil para pastores, maestros y miembros en general de las iglesias que un libro sobre la predicación, escrito por tres grandes y reconocidos...

Most college students struggle tremendously with their bodies. Numerous issues related to the body plague higher education. Students struggle with sleep, mental health, eating disorders, sexual identity questions, clothing choices, obesity, and alcohol problems, among other concerns. Too often Christian colleges try to meet these challenges with rules instead of setting forth a vision of what it means to steward the body-a precious gift from God...

Perhaps you have recently found Christ as your Savior and Lord and want to be able to convey your experience to your community or friends. The Operation of Faith will guide you through the necessaries and show you how the Lord enables you to effectively bring the gospel to the ones He has designated for your presentation. Brother Jims forty years of street and vocational evangelism experience will help you see how the Lord prepares you for the fruitful...

Pentecost on Mockingbird Lane is a collection of 51 sermons preached at the 2015 National Festival of Young Preachers in Dallas, Texas (at Perkins School of Theology on Mockingbird Lane).

The Festival of Young Preachers is a trans-denominational, one-of-a-kind event designed to showcase and encourage young people who aspire to be preachers of the Gospel. Gospel and the City celebrates the preaching ministry of the millennial generation with its collection of sermons preached during the 2013 Festival. The study guide included in this book provides thoughtful assistance for groups who wish to read, watch, and study the sermons.