Noise of Dry Bones

Noise of Dry Bones
Author: Jerry Bouchillon
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1591601762

This is that

This is that
Author: Aimee Semple McPherson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1919
Genre: Evangelistic work
ISBN:

Dem Dry Bones

Dem Dry Bones
Author: Luke A. Powery
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451424396

In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for preaching in the Spirit, acclaimed homiletician Luke Powery asserts that death is the context for all preaching. In fact, the Spirit leads preachers to the context of death each Sunday in order to proclaim a word of life that ultimately breathes hope into people's lives. Yet many preachers avoid death because they are at a loss of what to say about it and do not realize its vital connection to the substance of Christian hope. As a result the church is too often left with sermons that are fundamentally devoid of hope. Dem Dry Bones aims to remedy some of the theological and homiletical shortcomings in contemporary preaching by looking closely at the African American spirituals tradition. Through this study, Powery demonstrates how to preach in the Spirit so that proclaiming death becomes an avenue toward hope. In short: no death, no hope.

Revival in the Valley of Dry Bones

Revival in the Valley of Dry Bones
Author: Arthur L. Mackey
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 1597811564

In this book entitled Revival in the Valley of Dry Bones: Raising Up an Exceeding Great Army, Pastor Mackey states, "Clearly, there is a dire need today in our cities for a word of true prophetic destiny that sets the captive free from the brutal bondage of modern-day slavery where the poor are the last to be hired and the first to be fired. Even in the midst of the valley of apparent hopelessness, we must not give up,because there is divine hope from above. We can be the visionaries of victory rather than the everlasting victims of the vicious system."

Our Sufficiency is of God

Our Sufficiency is of God
Author: Timothy George
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0881462063

Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need on the part of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials backed by tested experience, reverent scholarship, and creative insights. The essays in this book are of that cast, and each essay is the work of an experienced practitioner-scholar in the field of preaching. The chapters focus on the preaching ministry of Gardner Calvin Taylor, in whose honor the volume was prepared. They are offered, with affection and esteem, by colleagues, students, and friends, fellow preachers all, whose own attempts to speak the unsearchable riches of Christ owe much to the life and labors of Gardner C. Taylor.Considered by many as the greatest living American preacher, Gardner C. Taylor has often reminded other preachers about the need for divine help in fulfilling the call: All in all, a summons to the ministry is no light calling. The work of communicating the gospel requires us to be more than we are-to exceed who we are. This volume will lead readers to the realization of the need for grace and a sufficiency only found in God (II Cor 3:5, KJV) as indicated by the title: Our Sufficiency Is of God.