Accompany Them with Singing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accompany Them with Singing write by Thomas G. Long. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Accompany Them with Singing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reviews the beliefs, customs, and rituals associated with Christian funerals; discusses the growing acceptance of cremation and memorial services; and explains how to plan a spiritually meaningful funeral service.
Preaching from Memory to Hope
Preaching from Memory to Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preaching from Memory to Hope write by Thomas G. Long. This book was released on 2009-03-19. Preaching from Memory to Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this compelling and hard-hitting book, respected preacher and teacher Thomas Long identifies and responds to what he sees as the most substantive theological forces and challenges facing preaching today. The issues, he says, are fourfold: the decline in the quality of narrative preaching and the need for its reinvigoration; the tendency of preachers to ignore God's action and presence in our midst; the return of the church's old nemesis, gnosticism--albeit in a milder form--evidenced in today's new "spirituality"; and the absence of eschatology in the pulpit. Long once again has his finger on the pulse of American preaching, demonstrated by his creative responses to these challenges. Whether he is calling for theologically smarter and more ethically discerning preaching, providing a method of interpretation that will allow pastors to recover the emphasis on God in our midst, or encouraging a kind of "interfaith dialogue" with gnosticism, he demonstrates why he has long been considered one of the most thoughtful and intelligent preachers in America today.
The Good Funeral
The Good Funeral - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Good Funeral write by Thomas G. Long. This book was released on 2013-01-01. The Good Funeral available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boythe presence of the dead made the presence of the living more meaningful somehow, as if it involved a basic and intuitively human duty to witness." from Chapter 1, "How We Come to Be the Ones We Are" Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lensesone as a preacher and one as a funeral directorThomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book features forewords from Patrick Lynch, President of the National Funeral Directors Association, and Barbara Brown Taylor, highly praised author and preacher. It is an essential resource for funeral directors, morticians, and pastors, and anyone else with an interest in current funeral practices.
Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals
Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals write by Brian Croft. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bring Gospel Hope in the Midst of Death The phone rings: “Pastor, can you do my mother’s funeral?” Or, “Please help us—our baby just died.” Death comes unexpectedly, giving you two to three days of time to prepare a sermon—in the midst of caring for a grieving family. This helpful book walks a pastor through the logistics of memorial services, burials, and working with funeral homes—using the four P’s: Plan, Prepare, Preach, and Perform. It shows how to magnify Christ and the gospel in the midst of all the details, demands, and sorrow that surrounds the death of a loved one. The Practical Shepherding series of books provides pastors and ministry leaders with advice and practical help to do the work of pastoral ministry in a local church. In Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals, experienced pastors Brian Croft and Phil A. Newton offer readers a concise guide to conducting funerals that glorify God and offer a timely message of hope.
Matter of Life and Death
Matter of Life and Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Matter of Life and Death write by Charles Hoffacker. This book was released on 2003-04-25. Matter of Life and Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the sensitivity born of time and experience, Charles Hoffacker presents an unusually warm and caring approach to preaching at a pivotal transition in human life, one which goes to the very heart of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Hoffacker teaches the reader, whether a seasoned preacher or a novice homilist, to find the key to unlocking the mystery of Jesus' promise of eternal life in a mortal life now ended.
