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This compelling sermons collection explores the art and uniqueness of African-American preaching. Readers will discover the ritual drama and the processes, form and substance of black storytelling that are pivotal elements coloring African-American culture. This is an intriguing, in-depth look into a unique art form.To fully appreciate the empowering nature inherent in black sermons, Stewart explores the four distinguishing elements that make ...

Sometimes we limp between doubt and certainty between assurance and confusion, between realism and surrealism in our spiritual journey... The prophetic task is to cut through the machinations, doubts, and deception created by spiritual ambiguity. The experiences of Elijah, Elisha, and Amos shared in this book of sermons are lessons for the people of God and the church today.-- from the PrefaceStewart's messages focus on the prophetic dimension...

Jesus was so marred and unbeautiful that those who were like him were drawn to him, and he changed their lives forever. There was something about the blemished visage and form of Jesus that compelled these people to identify with him. Carlyle Stewart suggests that the common depiction of Jesus as handsome and attractive is mistaken, and that first century Christians knew Jesus to be plain, even ugly. Yet our "marred but magnificent messiah" is...

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Journey inside the pages of Scripture to meet a personal God who enters individual lives and begins a creative work from the inside out. Shaped with the individual in mind, Immersion Bible Studies encourage simultaneous engagement both with the Word of God and with the God of the Word to become a new creation in Christ. Immersion Bible Studies, inspired by a fresh translation--the Common English Bible--stand firmly on Scripture and help reader...

Filling a need not previously addressed, African AmericanChurch Growth contends that it is the prophetic consciousness whichappeals to many blacks of the post-civil rights era, and that emphasis on theprophetic will help bring the black church out of the disillusionment of a"post-civil rights malaise." Carlyle Fielding Stewart definesprophetic ministry as a concern for wholeness of the individual and community. Goingbeyond a simple call for s...

Today's most influential African American pastors talk about church growth

The purpose of the church is simple: it exists to bring people to salvation in Christ, and to positively and permanently change lives for the good of the community. The way the church fulfills this basic calling is through empowerment: endowing people with the capacity to be recipients and catalysts of positive social and personal change. Too many churches in North American have neglected this basic calling, argues the author. If they are to b...

This perceptive study of African American spirituality sees the experience of the African American church as an example for all other peoples in their struggles for liberation from the world's shackles.