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Reclaiming The Urban Family
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Hands-on answers to the crises of urban homes. The problems urban families face–low income, drug abuse, divorce, gang involvement, domestic violence, and more–are devastating. But solutions exist in the local church that can transform troubled homes into places of love, security, hope, and growth. In Reclaiming the Urban Family, Dr. Willie Richardson gives pastors and leaders methods that can make inner-city churches a powerful force for restoring, training, and strengthening families, single-parent homes, and individuals. Using the principles and strategies described, the family training ministry of Dr. Richardson’s own Christian Stronghold Baptist Church in Philadelphia has – Brought about a near-zero divorce rate – Produced strong marriages built on deep lovebonds between couples – Helped numerous low- and moderate-income families become debt-free – Trained men to be competent husbands and fathers–and raised adult male membership in church to as high as 48 percent – Lowered the number of teenage pregnancies – Helped win to Christ those who have seen transformation in their loved ones. Reclaiming the Urban Family covers concerns as diverse as lay biblical counseling, singles and youth ministry, marriage preparation, occupational enrichment, single-parent households, evangelizing families, and more. Complete with a section of resources for African-American family ministries, it shows how local churches can become dynamic agents for building thriving homes and individuals and for evangelizing the unsaved. -
Breaking Strongholds In The African American Family
$19.99Add to cart1. What Is A Stronghold?
2. Types Of Strongholds
3. Strongholds Imprisoning African-American Males
4. Strongholds Surrounding African-American Females
5. Strongholds Immobilizing African-American Youth
6. The Christian’s Arsenal
7. The Battle Plan: Part 1
8. The Battle Plan: Part 2144 Pages
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1. What Is a Stronghold?
2. Types of Strongholds
3. Strongholds Imprisoning African-American Males
4. Strongholds Surrounding African-American Females
5. Strongholds Immobilizing African-American Youth
6. The Christian’s Arsenal
7. The Battle Plan: Part 1
8. The Battle Plan: Part 2144 Pages
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Empowerment Ethics For A Liberated People
$22.00Add to cartCheryl Sanders sharpens the agenda of black liberation by offering both a fresh reading of historical black religion and a distinctive approach to Christian ethics. Arguing that the experience of oppression has been the catalyst for black moral life and thought, Sanders traces several paths that African American Christians have taken in moving from victimization to moral agency: testimony, protest, uplift, cooperation, achievement, remoralization, and ministry.
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Living The Intersection
$21.00Add to cartWomanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. They both heighten black cultural self-awareness, even as they deepen knowledge of its historical sources. As womanism mines the ways and wisdom of African American women for Christian theology, so Afrocentricity excavates an African past to liberate the oppressed from Eurocentric worldviews. Yet are the two compatible? What does the mostly male Afrocentric scholarship contribute to the survival, wholeness, and liberation of black women? In this volume social ethicist Cheryl Sanders and other leading womanist thinkers take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and explore the intricate relationship between Afrocentric and womanist perspectives in their lives and commitments. Their strong, frank assessments form a creative engagement of these two momentous streams.
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Hum : Call And Response In African America Preaching
$20.99Add to cartIn The Hum: Call and Response in African Preaching, Evans E. Crawford, with Thomas H. Troeger, relates his analysis of African American folk preaching by relying upon an indigenous scheme for evaluation. The call/response tension in black preaching (derived from a West African tradition) is what drives the musicality of speech in black churches. Crawford refers to this musicality as “hum thoughts” and one can imagine the choir responding with a low rumbling hum to the musical intonations of a motivated preacher.
Key features: a new volume in the Abingdon Preacher’s Library, edited by Thomas H. Troeger; a different approach to preaching, firmly rooted in the black experience; leads the reader to understand preaching as an oral event; uses the term “homiletical musicality” to describe the musical understanding of the way sermons are heard and the oral response they awaken in the listener; and, coins new phrases for describing the preaching event.
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Xodus : An African American Male Journey
$21.00Add to cartRacial inequality and injustice are destroying black men’s self-esteem. How can they be liberated from negative self-images? Referencing Martin Luther King, Howard Thurman, and Malcolm X, Baker-Fletcher’s Xodus theology draws on womanist perspectives, “new male” literature, and visions of black leaders to reconstruct African American male identity and affirm new lifestyles.
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Spirituality Of African American People
$29.00Add to cartCurrent interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora., for cultural beacons. Pre-eminent black social ethicist Peter Paris here sharpens and focuses that quest on African “spirituality”–that is, the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading traditional African religious worldviews. From extensive comparative research and personal travel, Paris shows how such values were retained and modified in the diaspora, most notably in African American religious and moral thought and its practice. Traditional understandings of God, ancestral spirits, tribal community, family belonging, reciprocity, personal destiny, and agency have not only survived great cultural upheavals but remarkably even been enriched and enlivened. Paris’ pan-African focus, careful scholarship, and his eye for ultimate values in varying cultural milieus combine here to model comparative cultural analysis and to clarify cultural foundations of black ethical life.
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African American Church Growth
$20.99Add to cartAfrican American Church Growth offers 12 principles for prophetic ministry. Stewart contends that it is precisely the prophetic consciousness which appeals to many blacks of the post-civil rights era, and that emphasis on the prophetic will help bring the black church out of the disillusionment of a “post-civil rights malaise.”
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Prophethood Of Black Believers
$33.00Add to cartThe author, one of the founding fathers of the black theology movement, provides this valuable survey of the black church. Using a cross cultural, interdiscplinary, ecumenical approach, he shows how knowledge gained through black theology can be applied to specific areas of ministry such as education, pastoral care, and political and economic issues. He challenges ministers and churches to nurture the “prophethood” of all believers in a holistic ministry in and to the black community, a ministry that has both personal and social dimensions and needs to involve the underclass as well as the middle class.
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Welcome Speeches And More
$10.99Add to cartGeneral Welcome Speeches
Welcome For Church Anniversary
General Response Speeches
A Tribute
Pastor’s Anniversary Addresses
Usher Day Address
Installation Of Officers
Men’s Day Addresses
Women’s Day Address
Family Day Address
Sacrificial Love
Choir Day Address
The Five F’s Of Friendship
The Walk Of Faith
A Godly Woman
Nine Keys To God’s Resources
Stewardship
How To Know God
Two Blessings
A Plan Of Salvation
A Friend Loveth At All Times
God Will Provide
Redeeming Love
Borrowed
God’s Will For UsAdditional Info
WELCOME SPEECHES AND MORENow you have one resource that can help you plan for a variety of situations in your church. Author and bookseller Carole Cupples wrote this book in response to a need voiced by her own customers. A few of the occasions this book particularly addresses are welcoming guests to a program, honoring a pastor on an anniversary, and paying a memorial tribute. The speeches you find in this compilation reflect the ways we honor God in both celebration and meditation.
Not only do you find welcome speeches and responses, but also devotionals, tributes, installation services, skits, and poetry for special days in your church.
The author has been operating a Christian bookstore for sixteen years. During those years, many times customers have come in needing help with programs in their churches. As a result of her attempt and desire to meet those needs, she offers to you this book. Her prayer is that it will assist you in your ministry.
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Biblical Counseling With African Americans
$26.99Add to cart18 Chapters
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This book is a practical and biblical guide for all who engage in counseling African-Americans. Its purpose is to set forth the issues, principles, and interventions of counseling, especially in terms of marriage counseling and family therapy. Clarence Walker provides a framework for the book in the biblical story of the apostle Philip and the Ethiopian charioteer as recounted in the book of Acts. In Walker’s view this story involves the same issues that confront African-Americans today. Specifically, in Part 1 Walker sees seven challenges that Philip faces as a “Christian counselor”: – Ethnicity . . . – Socio-economics – Gender . . .- Environment – Sexuality . . . – Religion – Power — Part 2 builds on this foundation to develop ten biblical principles for an effective therapeutic process — all recognizable in the interaction between Philip and the Ethiopian. These include — – Directive engaging . . . – Explorative questioning – Affective joining . . . – Positive terminating – Active listening . . . – Cooperative involving — Part 3 explains biblical techniques for treatment. Five approaches are offered to use with couples, and three are presented for counseling individuals. -
Welcome Speeches And Responses For All Occasions
$10.99Add to cartSome General Words Of Welcome
A General Response
Welcome Speeches And Responses For Specific Days And Occasions
Pastor Anniversary/Appreciation
Choir Anniversary/Appreciation
Homecoming/Church Anniversary
Homecoming/Memorial Service
Children’s Day
Family Day
Mother’s Day Tribute To Motherhood
Father’s Day
Men’s Day
Women’s Day
Missions
Usher Board Anniversary/Appreciation
Graduate Recognition Day
Memorial Day
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
Poetry, Prayers, And ScriptureAdditional Info
: A great guide for persons asked to deliver welcome speeches or to respond to those speeches. Sample speeches and responses are provided for a variety of occasions, with appropriate Scripture verses. Another section gives poetry, prayers, and recitations. For general use, this resource is especially helpful in African-American churches. -
Methodisms Racial Dilemma
$23.99Add to cartThis book is the story of the Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church, the jurisdication that was created for African American members of the three bodies uniting in 1939. James S. Thomas sketches the history of American Methodism from its earliest beginnings through the years of tumult around the issue of slavery and on into the twentieth century. But hte bulk of the book is that story that could best be told only by an insider, in this case, by the one who served as chairperson of the Central Jurisdication Study and Research Committee, popularly known as the Committee of Five, which forumalted the plan for themerger of the Central Jurisdiction’s annual conferences into the regional jurisdictions.
Officially, the story of the Central Jurisdiction begain in 1939. But the attitudes and social practices that prompted its creation go much further back into history. As those attitudes evolved–by a combination of legislated change within the wider society and the opening of the minds of many people–the ever-present dilemna of the Central Jurisdiction was resolved. Its demise, says Bishop Thomas, enables The United Methodist Church more faithfully to seek the goal of one Shepherd, one fold. -
Pastoral Theology : A Black Church Perspective
$29.00Add to cartPastoral theology is liberation theology because it is grouned in paxis. Its focus is comprehensive and specific. It deals with developing and implementing policies and programs in the church and community that convey the meaning of Christianity in practical life situations.
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Stony The Road We Trod
$25.00Add to cartUsing postmodern hermeneutical theorization and basing its findings upon the social scientific study of the Hebrew Bible, this singular volume marks the emergence of a critical mass of black biblical scholars. Together they are reshaping and redefining the questions, concerns and scholarship that determine how the Bible is appropriated by church, academy, and the larger society today in relation to liberation theology.
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Black Preaching : The Recovery Of A Powerful Art (Revised)
$20.99Add to cartLearn how black culture and preaching style empower black congregations—and what methods all preachers should know. In this one-volume collection of The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching, Mitchell shows you how to add power and vision to your sermons through storytelling, imagination, and other aspects of preaching style that are rooted in black culture. .
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Must God Remain Greek
$29.00Add to cartPART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS
African Indigenous Churches
The Church Of The Lord (Aladura)
The Cherubim And Seraphim Church
The Church Of Jesus Christ On Earth (Zaire)
Zionist Churches In South Africa
Church Of Christ In Africa (Kenya)
Ingigenous Elements Of WorshipCaribbean Indigenous Religions And Churches
Haitian Voodoo
Cuban Santeria
Trinidadian Shango
Jamaican Churches And Traditional Religions
Native Baptists
Myalism
Kumina
Jamaican RevivalismLiberation Theologies In Afro Cultures
South Africa’s Apartheid Culture
South African Liberation Theology
Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH
Christian Theology And Afro Cultures
Culture And The Grammer Of Faith
Salvation, Sin, And Death In Afro CulturesGod: Traditional Motifs
God In African Traditional Religion
Attributes Of God
Divine Ubiquity
Divine Creator
Divine Pastoral CareThe Religious Worldview Of Africans
Christ: A Son Out Of Egypt
Boundaries Of Christology
Christ As The Anointment One
Christ As Lord Of The Heavens
Christ As Healer
The Liberator And The LiberatedSpirit And Spirits: Pneumatology And Afro Cultures
The Biblical Tradition
The Dogmatic Tradition
The African Tradition
Evil Spirits And Lordship In Afro Cultures
The Spirit And Black American Religion
Spirits In Black CultureAncestors And Saints
Hagiolatry And The Ancestors
Ancestorship In The Caribbean
Ancestors And Black American Religion
Hagiography: Christian Saints And The AncestorsEpilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Liberating Visions : Human Fulfillment And Social Justice In African Americ
$23.00Add to cartThe four men spotlighted in this book, together with other black religious and political leaders and communities, have developed distinctive and significant traditions of moral thinking and social criticism. Although the principal concern of these thinkers was social justice entailing significant institutional transformations in American society, they were also attentive to the substantive content and formal character of the authentically free life and moral person. The four men highlighted are Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr
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Social Teaching Of The Black Churches
$24.00Add to cartIn African American culture, the church is instrumental in establishing and maintaining social order. Professor Paris shows that a study of black church teachings reveals black social ethics. These ethics aren’t “abstract moral principles, but sociopolitical quests for liberation and freedom.”
