Preaching to People in PainChristianity Today 2022 Book Award Winner (Church Pastoral Leadership) Outreach 2022 Recommended Resource (Church) Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Preaching Ministry Leadership) Offering an important corrective to a pain averse culture that celebrates individualism and success, veteran preacher and teacher Matthew Kim encourages pastors to preach on the painful issues their congregations face. Through vulnerability
He has witnessed the transforming power of preaching firsthand for more than thirty years and seeks to encourage students and pastors as he teaches them the art of preaching
The book interacts with recent scholarship and is academically rigorous but is written in an engaging style
Leading biblical scholar James Thompson examines Paul's ministry of planting and nurturing churches in the pre-Christian world to offer guidance for the contemporary church
"We take up the Bible to read it
the author has chosen an average of eighteen pages to be read from each to cover the whole range of the Institutes
but also from personal experience
In considering the biblical story
This bestselling textbook on biblical preaching is a contemporary classic in the field
this excellent introduction to the history of biblical interpretation will open new doors for students of the Bible
must define itself and its mission among people who have been shaped by other experiences of community
Jesus' ethics and theology can be properly understood only in the light of first-century Jewish teachings
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