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Emilio Lopez received a surprise phone call from his bishop one day. "Would you be interested in a call to a white congregation in a neighborhood that is becoming Hispanic? I think you're just the kind of pastor they need in these days of transition."-- from the Advent 1 storyHere are 56 short stories for use in preaching. Each is a contemporary adaptation of a biblical theme.56 Lectionary Stories for Preaching offers one story for each Sunday...

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In the midst of this worrying world, in the midst of all our anxieties, Jesus speaks a very simple word to us. "Don't be anxious, " Jesus says. "I have come to lift up the lowly. I have come to fill the empty with good things." -- from the chapter "I Fill the Hungry with Good Things" In this volume of sermons from Richard A. Jensen, one will find stories that tie together the themes of the gospel texts for Pentecost, in a way that will help a ...

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Ronald Reagan's inability to sway the American public and press with his speeches at the former site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has been marked as the first major failure of the Great Communicator's second term. This work highlights the qualities of the speeches that make them, in his estimation, models of presidential discourse.

Ronald Reagan's inability to sway the American public and press with his speeches at the former site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has been marked as the first major failure of the Great Communicator's second term. This work highlights the qualities of the speeches that make them, in his estimation, models of presidential discourse.

We are living on the boundary between the print and electronic era. Richard A. Jensen says that as we move into the electronic world, we must seriously rethink most of what we do. This book calls us to reinvestigate preaching in our time. Well-grounded in an understanding of communication cultures, this book is a rare gift. In theory and practice, Jensen helps preachers rethink what they are doing and offers a strategy for effective communicat...

Jensen's research and insights provide a stimulating resource on Matthew's Gospel. Jensen provides "Homiletical Directions" at the end of each chapter that will help the preacher find a focus and locate themes for preaching the text. Jensen points to the ways in which the biblical writers lock their stories together with other stories in order to give fuller meaning to their narratives. He covers material that is not included in the assigned l...

Preachers and Bible teachers will find this book helpful in guiding them to be biblical storytellers. Testimonies to the value of Dr. Richard Jensen's book have been numerous and include the following: Rather than preach about the biblical text one is encouraged and equipped to proclaim the biblical narrative. His book is refreshingly practical and biblical. It stimulates biblical preaching, preparation and proclamation. The preacher is moved ...

In a classic case of failing to see the forest for the trees, Jensen, a homiletics professor and author of two works on narrative preaching, says that preachers tend to analyze biblical books to glean the slightest bits of exegetical data, yet miss the thrust of the overarching story they try to convey. Jensen contends that preachers get too caught up in an analytical, left-brained mentality that obscures the power and meaning of the good news...