Pastoral Helps
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Designing The Sermon
$19.99Add to cartWhat is good preaching? is the question of both those who hear it and those who do it. Hearers answer that question instinctively, tuning in the preacher who meets their needs, whether in the pulpit of the neighborhood church or on a broadcast. Preachers need to answer more intentionally.
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After Suicide
$22.00Add to cartThis constructive guide offers much-needed information and clinically tested advice for those struggling to cope in the aftermath of a suicide. Written in clear, everyday language, it presents the facts and demonstrates how to deal with feelings of guilt, anger, bewilderment, and shame. It shows how to live as survivors of a suicide, how to explain the event to children, and how to reconcile the death with religious beliefs. Also included is an Anniversary Memorial Service that enables family members to recommit themselves to life. After Suicide presents positive steps that can help family and friends find strength together as they readjust and return to healthy, productive living.
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Minister As Diagnostician
$24.00Add to cartPersons with personal problems often turn to their ministers for help. What kind of help do they hope to get that, rightly or wrongly, they do not expect from other professionals (psychiatrists, counselors, psychologists, or social workers)? The answer this book gives is that they want to be addressed in the terms and symbols of their faith, by authoritative standard-bearers of their faith.
The minister has the responsibility–and ability–to meet this particular need, says Dr. Prayser. Here he answers such questions as: How should ministers proceed to help? On what grounds should they make or receive referrals? What do they think troubled counselees want from them? What kind of personal knowledge and skill should they have in order to help? Are pastoral views and pastoral interventions unique?
Dr. Pruyser explores, in depth, the first step in the helping process: the diagnostic assessment of the problem-laden person. The diagnoses that the minister makes cannot be medical or psychiatric, says Dr. Pruyser. Rather they must be derived from the ministers own theological thought and a particular kind of awareness on the part of the counselee He develops a set of guidelines for conducting pastoral-diagnostic interviews that both acknowledges the pastors professional uniqueness and meets the parishoners expectations.
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Basic Principles Of Biblical Counseling
$24.99Add to cart“The local church should and can successfully assume responsibility within its ranks for restoring troubled people to full, productive, creative lives.” “If we are to hope for success in such immense and seriously neglected responsibility, pastors need to return to the biblical model not of ministering to their people but of equipping their people to minister to each other by using their spiritual gifts.” “Congregations need to regain that wonderful sense of ‘koinonia’ fellowship and pro practice true community.”
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Now That Youre A Deacon
$14.99Add to cart1. Understand Your Work As A Deacon
2. Serve As Partner With Your Pastor
3. Translate Qualifications Into Service
4. Sharpen Your Skills For Deacon Service
5. Become A Caring Witness
6. Support Your Church And Denomination
7. Grow As A Christian Steward
8. Magnify Christ In Your Home
9. Know The How And Why Of Deacon Work133 Pages
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From the publisher: A combination of practical guidance and inspiration on character, relationship to church and pastor, stewardship, missions and more. -
Reflections On The Crucifixion
$7.95Add to cartReflections On The Crucifixion is a Service of Tenebrae, written for either one hour or three hours, reflecting the thoughts and feelings of Jesus’ disciples on that original Good Friday.
Reflections On The Crucifixion is taken from Dr. Orso’s successful book, As We Love and Forgive. The tenebrae provides a lot of congregational participation and is a moving worship experience for every congregation.
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Our Father Friend Of Little Children
$7.95Add to cartPerfect For a post-Lenten or Easter Season Series, this book of nine object lessons uses the Lord’s Prayer as its basis.
Chapter titles include: “Our Father Who Art In Heaven.” “Hallowed Be Thy Name,” “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread,” and “For Thine Is The Kingdom.”
Objects used are:
a flag
a microphone
a large map or globe
a rule book for a game
a loaf of unsliced bread
a NO TRESPASSING sign
a box of chocolates, potato chips and popcorn
a newspaper
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Christian Counseling And Occultism
$26.99Add to cart4 Parts
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One of the least known aspects of the Christian life, and therefore among the least understood, is that of spiritual warfare. Most Christians are quite familiar with basic factors such as regeneration, newness of life in Christ, the Spirit filled life, the fruit of the Spirit, and the witnessing for Christ; but it seems that relatively few are familiar with the mortal combat between light and darkness, between God and Satan. In this book, “Christian Counseling And Occultism” Dr. Kurt E. Koch makes a signifigant contribution.Out of his wide pastoral and evagnelistic ministry, Dr. Koch presents the facts on satanic warfare against the people of God. With objectivity he faces the possibility of natural explanations given by psychologists and psychiatrists, and shows their insufficiency in many areas. He is deeply taught in the Scriptures and knows by experience the adequacy of the Christian’s armour: the girdle of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the Gospel, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit, and in particular, the weapon of all- prayer in the Spirit.
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Parsing Guide To The Greek New Testament
$34.99Add to cartHere is a welcome tool for students who need some help in working their way through the Greek New Testament. It will save time in searching for forms in the current analytical lexicons. Only verbs and words that are characteristic of verbs are parsed. A verb parsing gives the person, number, tense, voice, mood, root, and meaning. This parsing guide follows the twenty-fifth edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek text. It was designed for use by seminary students, Bible colleges, New Testament scholars, ministers, and Bible translators.
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Foundations For Purposeful Church Administration
$33.99Add to cartHighly acclaimed and widely used, this text shows what church tasks must be undertaken, why they are important, and the guiding theological principles required to achieve them.
Alvin J. Lindgren clarifies the present confusion about what church administration is and what its place in the church should be. He provides a concept of church administration for the student of theology, and a new, more effective overview for the working pastor frustrated by current demands and procedures.
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Pastors Manual
$16.99Add to cartThe role of pastor hasn’t changed very much over the years. Originally published in 1940, this reprinted classic is a testimony to just that! Packed with timeless wisdom, it features a variety of Scripture-based funeral, wedding, and communion services that are as appropriate today as they were 50 years ago