Author: Claus Westermann
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: commentary, continental, genesis
Number of Pages: 652
Published: 1994-01-05
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0800695003
ISBN-13: 9780800695002

Author: Walter Wink
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: conscience, churches, questions, faith, christian, homosexuality
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0800631862
ISBN-13: 9780800631864

Issues surrounding homosexuality threaten to divide the Christian churches and the people within them. This unique resource presents short pieces from some of the nation’s most prominent church leaders---Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical---who address the fundamental moral imperative about homosexuality. Together they invite the reader to open his or her heart to the Spirit, to tolerance, and to Gospel values. Through personal testimony, factual clarification, and moral suasion, they provide much-needed clarity on the biblical witness and biblical authority, the nature or

Author: Carter, H Lindberg
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: charity
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1993-07-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0800625692
ISBN-13: 9780800625696

Author: D. Foy Christopherson
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: worship, spaces, matters, renewing, encounter, place
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0806651075
ISBN-13: 9780806651071

Author: David C. Bentall
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: friendship, male, power, transforming, company
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 080665158X
ISBN-13: 9780806651583

Why do men rarely invest time and effort building intentional and mutually supportive friendships? How can men create meaningful friendships? David Bentall explores the experience of three men who have supported each other in friendship for more than twelve years. He chronicles how friendships can inspire, challenge, and have the potential to transform lives. He provides suggestions for initiating long-term, nurturing friendships. Most importantly, Bentall describes the tremendous benefits such friendships have on all areas of a person’s life, including family relationships, physical

Author: James Henry Harris
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: plain, made, word
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0800636872
ISBN-13: 9780800636876

Preaching mediates the word of God into a cultural matrix. And no American preaching has done so more effectively and powerfully than African American preaching, claims noted homiletician James Harris. Known for its rhetorical strength, social-justice orientation, and dead-on connection to the community’s lived experience, black preaching is here analyzed and proposed as a model for all preaching. Harris grounds black preaching in the self-understanding of the historic black church and its most prominent preachers, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Samuel Proctor. Harris also explores th

Author: William Holladay
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: years, thousand, three, psalms
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1996-08-27
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0800630149
ISBN-13: 9780800630140

William L. Holladay offers an illuminating and informative overview of the Psalms, chanted, sung, and recited by so great a cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1) through the past three thousand years.