Crafting the Sermon: A Beginner’s Guide to Preaching
A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching. This book is for those who are newly arrived in the pulpit: lay preachers, bivocational and local pastors, as well as recent seminary graduates....
Discover, Claim, and Flourish
Reflecting on Your Leadership Journey Journal your way through a 12-week Christian leader intensive. This fully illustrated resource combines winning leadership concepts and insightful scriptural meditations in a daily journal specifically created for leaders. Use...
From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry
Shows the clear connection between justice and religious education in the Black experience. The resource sets forth the cultural imperatives of ministry and the contextual nature of a public theology of religious education that connects...
Happy Surprises: Help Others Discover the Joy of Giving
Helping people experience generosity always yields happy surprises. According to author David L. Heetland, people want to give, and this book shows how to turn these generous intentions into tangible help for nonprofit organizations. While...
Intersections: Faith, Church, and the Academy
Preparing Leaders for an Interfaith World Colleges strive to educate students for leadership in communities, businesses, churches, governments, and the academy, and they must also prepare them for an increasingly religiously pluralistic world by offering...
Introduction to Christian Faith: A Deeper Way of Seeing
God is when everything else is not. What shall we do if God is not our friend? Looking for God is intensely personal and yielding to God is often surprising. Fisher says, “Confronting the genuine...
Joy: A Guide for Youth Ministry
Embrace God’s joy and restore a focus on Christian practices and the virtues they instill. Published in cooperation with Yale University and taking cues from theologians such as Miroslav Volf and recent reflections on joy...
Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Twenty-first Century
Maps the Path of Pan-Wesleyan Christologies An international group of Pan-Wesleyan scholars address this question posed by Jaroslav Pelikan: What happened to Methodist Christology after Wesley? Vickers’ work on Methodist Christology in The Oxford Handbook...
Nevertheless — American Methodists and Women’s Rights
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. While some things have changed, others haven’t. This book tells the story of American Methodist women’s efforts fight for women’s rights, beginning with the Women’s Christian...
Outside Looking In: Early Methodism as Viewed by Its Critics
Early Methodism as seen by its adversaries and detractors This book examines eighteenth-century pamphlet attacks on early Methodism, which came from all sides—the episcopacy, clergy, other Christian groups, universities, Wesley’s ex-preachers, ex-Methodist laity, the Calvinist...