Ronald Allen

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  Preaching The Gospels Without Blaming The Jews

  $44.00

  Ronald Allen and Clark Williamson provide a commentary on the Revised Common Lectionary Gospel readings, demonstrating how the lections are continuous with the theology, values, and practices of Judaism and also identifying and reflecting on points at which the lections caricature Jewish people, practices, and institutions.

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  Acts Of The Apostles

  $48.33

  Acts of the Apostles helps the preacher identify possibilities for sermons based on texts and themes in the book of Acts. While offering a basic exegetical framework for interpreting passages in Acts in their historical, literary, rhetorical, and theological contexts, this volume also suggests ways in which the preacher can relate passages and motifs from Acts to the congregation and world today. It also is useful in classes that seek to link text and sermon, and for congregational Bible study.

  Throughout his commentary, Ron Allen examines the relationship of Acts to the Gospel of Luke, discussing parallel passages between the two volumes and observing how themes in the Gospel carry forward into Acts. He notes how particular passages contribute to developing themes and to how the awareness of such a theme can contribute to the preacher’s work with a particular passage.

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  Faith Of Your Own

  $21.00

  A faith should be a living thing. What we believe necessarily evolves in response to insights into the Bible, to questions or doubts we face, to changes in life circumstances, or to things that happen in the larger world. Nevertheless, Christians often find it helpful to identify what they can most fully believe at a given moment. Such clarity empowers the present and leads us toward the future. Such moments can also be mile markers by which we measure our faith journey.

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  Compact Bible Commentary

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  Attractive abridgement of Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary Includes maps, photos, illustrations, word studies, and more. Makes the Bible’s “Then and There” become the “Here and Now” of God’s Word today STATUS:N CPCCATEGORY:BSTCMTSVL

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  Preaching Is Believing

  $28.00

  This practical handbook will help preachers equip congregations to grasp core Christian convictions so that the community can believe, live, and witness with integrity. Allen encourages preachers from the broad spectrum of theological families to bring their perspectives more boldly to the surface of the sermon. This volume does not so much advocate a special kind of preaching as it commends more conscientious and critical attention to systematic theology throughout the preparation and preaching of all sermons.

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  Patterns Of Preaching

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  Thirty-four different ways of creating sermons with chapters introduced by and examples given from princes of the modern pulpit: Long, Mitchell, Craddock, Buttrick, Lowrie, Troeger, etc. “A good reference for anyone wanting to cultivate a more diverse homiletical repertoire,”

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  Interpreting The Gospel

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  “Allen provides a broad and up-to-the-minute survey of traditional and recent approaches to preaching and does so from a revisionary theological perspective. He writes with care, candor, and wisdom.”

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  Theology For Preaching

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  The heart of the postmodern mind-set is an awareness of the relativity of all human thought and action. In Theology for Preaching, three authors collaborate to discuss the implications for proclamation when the culture behaves as if all human thought and practices are relative. Tips for sermon composition and theme are proposed. Sample sermons are supplied to demonstrate awareness of the cultural shifts that make preaching a worthwhile challenge in a postmodern ethos.

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  Teaching Minister

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  The authors says the clergy, regardless of their appointment (as parish clergy or judicatory executives, for example), should understand themselves primary as teachers of the Christian faith. They claim it is both wrong and disadvantageous to mainline churches when clergy act as administrators or psychotherapists or in any other way that is fundamentally different from acting as a teacher. The first half of the book shows the urgency of recovering the understanding of ministry and demonstrates that the church has always witnessed to the importance of teaching as an indispensable component of ministry and of the life of faith itself. The latter half of the book provides examples of how the primary role of teaching can be used in the church.

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