Chalice Press: 181 books
by John Killinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Stories draw us in, illuminating our lives and the world around us. Sometimes, stories change us forever. In Stories That Have Shaped My Life and Ministry, John Killinger begins with twenty-one unique stories—some stories you’ll hear for the first time, others you’ll have known your whole life—and...
Overhearing the Gospel
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Revised and Expanded Edition! When originally published in 1978, Overhearing the Gospel introduced "narrative preaching" and forever changed the shape of contemporary preaching. Now a new generation of preachers can learn from the master himself in this revised and expanded edition of Craddock's groundbreaking method.
The Children's Sermon
Moments with God
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Written by an educator, minister, and writer of children’s curriculum materials, this book provides easy-to-do and easy-to-understand methods for developing good children’s sermons. Using appropriate scriptures for insight into our relationship with the children in our midst, author Janet Helme...
Reading the Synoptic Gospels (Revised and Expanded)
Basic Methods for Interpreting Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This revised and expanded introductory text introduces students of the Bible to the layers of meaning that can be uncovered by serious study of the synoptic gospel texts. Included are two new chapters introducing ideological exegetical approaches to the gospels and a concluding chapter that helps...
Cosmopolitan Theology
Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In Cosmopolitan Theology, author Namsoon Kang proposes a theology that embraces and at the same time moves beyond collective identity position and group-based allegiances. It crosses borders of gender, race, nationality, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and ability. Kang offers a vision of a global...
Questions of the Soul
Sermons from the 2014 Festival of Young Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
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. Questions of the Soul celebrates the preaching ministry of the millennial generation with its collection of sermons preached during the 2014 Festival.
Birthed
Finding Grace through Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
When infertility painfully interrupted Elizabeth Hagan's plan to start a family, the path of grace offered her another way. Instead of giving birth to a child, she birthed herself instead. Along the way, she learned you can't control how fast your dreams come true, if they come true at all, but you...
The Postmodern Life Cycle
Challenges for Church and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Schweitzer’s goal in this book is to explore what postmodernity actually means for theology and how theology and the church may respond to its challenges. He focuses on the life cycle as it is changing with the advent of postmodernity, looking sequentially at segments of the life cycle using different...
If Eve Only Knew
Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All God Meant for You to Be
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
"She is a godly woman." "True love waits." Are these phrases and many others about gender truly based in scripture, or based on dusty, outdated stereotypes? And how do these perceptions repress people, especially women, from fully expressing their faith?
If Eve Only Knew...
Parental Guidance Advised
Adult Preaching from the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
When we learn Old Testament Bible stories as children, the stories are stripped of their complexity. But, as adults, hearing the entire stories-the stories of our past-reminds us who we are in God's plan. Parental Guidance Advised shows the Old Testament to be a creative, humorous, insightful, bawdy,...
Heaven and Earth
Sermons from the 2016 National Festival of Young Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
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. Heaven and Earth celebrates the preaching ministry of the millennial generation with its collection of sermons preached during the 2016 Festival.
Ten-Minute Transformation
Small Spiritual Steps that Revolutionize Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The average American spends about ten minutes per day in religious or spiritual activities. Do you believe you can experience a personal transformation if all you have is ten minutes a day? Or could these ten minutes be part of a more comprehensive plan for personal and global revolution? Could ten...
by James Griffith, William Easum
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Jim Griffith and Bill Easum draw from decades of personal experience in planting new churches and consulting with supervisors and planters in new church starts. They have condensed their vast experiences down to ten points that account for the great majority of failures among church planters. For...
by Trent C. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
So many Bible readers say they want more depth and meaning in Bible study but don’t know how to get it. This small volume lays out six ways the Bible reader can ask the right questions to get the right answers to understand Scripture. These six ways include: textual, historical, literary, exegetical, theological, and devotional studies.