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Exploring How Pentecostals Preach About Depression, Robert D. Mcbain Apr 2024

Exploring How Pentecostals Preach About Depression, Robert D. Mcbain

Salubritas: International Journal of Spirit-Empowered Counseling

A qualitative analysis was completed on twelve sermons into how Pentecostal preachers talk about depression from the pulpit using the Assemblies of God (AG) as a purposive sample. Findings illustrate that preachers talked about faulty thinking as the source of depression and interpreted depression as a transformative journey occurring within the context of a God encounter where the believer fixed their faulty thinking. While the way the preachers interpreted depression is not without critique, the article suggests that preaching about depression as a journey of encounter may help listeners frame their depression experiences within a narrative framework that helps them …


Christ-Oriented Expository Preaching: Preaching The New Testament Use Of The Old Testament, Randall Zeigler May 2021

Christ-Oriented Expository Preaching: Preaching The New Testament Use Of The Old Testament, Randall Zeigler

Eleutheria: John W. Rawlings School of Divinity Academic Journal

Lee, Kyoohan. Christ-Oriented Expository Preaching: Preaching the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020. 186 pages. $25.00.


Three Unique Theological Themes Of Oral Roberts’ Preaching, Julie Ma Apr 2021

Three Unique Theological Themes Of Oral Roberts’ Preaching, Julie Ma

Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology

The study examines three unique theological themes of Oral Roberts: “Seed-faith,” healing of the whole being, and the “Fourth Man.” Since his message was a reflection of his theology, I also investigate his theological formation, informed particularly by his experiences such as miraculous healing.


Recycling A Colonial Puritan Sermon: A Case Study, David M. Powers Oct 2019

Recycling A Colonial Puritan Sermon: A Case Study, David M. Powers

Sermon Studies

Notes which the teenager John Pynchon took in the 1640s as he listened to the Rev. George Moxon’s sermons in frontier Springfield, MA, have become the inspiration and the ingredients for sermon performances in 21st century New England. The project began with a word-for-word transcription of a symbol-for-symbol manuscript based on a code invented by Pynchon. Then a very few words which the notetaker skipped, in his rush to record just what he heard, were added to provide essential clarification. So, too, was introductory material to frame the experience by encouraging the listening congregation to “stretch” a bit to appreciate …


“Wild Mobs, To Mad Sedition Prone”: Preaching The American Revolution, Barry Levis Oct 2019

“Wild Mobs, To Mad Sedition Prone”: Preaching The American Revolution, Barry Levis

Sermon Studies

The Church of England in the American Colonies was really not a single institution. Because no local bishop governed the church in America, falling as it did under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, the clergy tended to have differing loyalties. Especially in the southern colonies, local vestries ruled the clergy because they controlled their stipends; therefore the clergy followed the lead of the local squirearchy and suppressed their personal views regarding independence. The New England Anglican clergy were equally in a difficult position. Midst the hostility of Puritanism and the Sons of Liberty, they seemed like an alien …


Preaching In Britain’S “Parish Church”: Sermons At London’S St. Paul’S Cathedral, In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Frances Knight Oct 2019

Preaching In Britain’S “Parish Church”: Sermons At London’S St. Paul’S Cathedral, In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Frances Knight

Sermon Studies

This paper will address the conference themes of ‘space, place and context’ with an examination of the development of preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, over the course of two hundred years. Completely rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, on a scale which was intended to rival St Peter’s in Rome, the new St Paul’s was explicitly designed as a Protestant cathedral. Preaching, therefore, was highly valued. Yet, despite the adoption of Wren’s ‘preaching box’ plan, speaking in the colossal space, potentially to a congregation of many hundreds, presented considerable challenges. As one would expect over a two-hundred-year …


Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19 • October 11, 2015, Joel Okamoto Sep 2015

Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19 • October 11, 2015, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

The promise is eschatological, a promise of life with God and all his people in the new creation, enjoying the life of the age to come.


Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19, Joel Biermann Sep 2015

Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19, Joel Biermann

Concordia Journal

Sin becomes altogether too common and familiar and so “safe.” The writer to the Hebrews screams the contrary alert: Sin kills.


Proper 22 • Hebrews 2:1–13 (14–18), Charles Arand Sep 2015

Proper 22 • Hebrews 2:1–13 (14–18), Charles Arand

Concordia Journal

Not only did God honor us with the role of being responsible over creation, he now honors us by becoming a human creature so that in him, that right dominion would be restored.


Proper 18 • James 2:1–10, 14–18, Joel Fritsche Sep 2015

Proper 18 • James 2:1–10, 14–18, Joel Fritsche

Concordia Journal

For faith alone can justify; Works serve our neighbor and supply The proof that faith is living.


Proper 15 • Ephesians 5:6–21, Joel Fritsche Sep 2015

Proper 15 • Ephesians 5:6–21, Joel Fritsche

Concordia Journal

The Christian Life, A Wake up Call.


Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015, Kent Burreson Sep 2015

Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015, Kent Burreson

Concordia Journal

The gift of the resurrection comes to fruition in the Gentile Pentecost as peoples of all the nations die and rise in the baptismal bath of the Holy Spirit.


Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015 Testifying In The Courtroom, Leopoldo Sánchez Sep 2015

Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015 Testifying In The Courtroom, Leopoldo Sánchez

Concordia Journal

In true Johannine fashion, the apostle offers us a contrast between two opposing principles at war with each other, namely, the way of the Son that leads to life and the way of the world that leads to death.


Epiphany 3 • Isaiah 9:1–4 • January 26, 2014, Quentin Wesselschmidt Sep 2015

Epiphany 3 • Isaiah 9:1–4 • January 26, 2014, Quentin Wesselschmidt

Concordia Journal

The unrepented sins of Israel received their due; so the sins of our age will not go unpunished by God unless people confess their sins and cast themselves upon the mercy of God that is offered in Christ Jesus.


Baptism Of Our Lord • Isaiah 42:1–7 • January 12, 2014, Thomas Manteufel Sep 2015

Baptism Of Our Lord • Isaiah 42:1–7 • January 12, 2014, Thomas Manteufel

Concordia Journal

Through the baptismal covenant, we are united with Christ and receive his blessings.


Epiphany • Isaiah 60:1–6 • January 5, 2014, Leopoldo Sánchez Sep 2015

Epiphany • Isaiah 60:1–6 • January 5, 2014, Leopoldo Sánchez

Concordia Journal

Who are those in our neighborhood who have yet to be drafted into Jesus, the new Israel, brought into the light of the Lord, so that they too may be saved and worship him?


Christmas 1 • Isaiah 63:7–14 • December 29, 2013, Joel Biermann Sep 2015

Christmas 1 • Isaiah 63:7–14 • December 29, 2013, Joel Biermann

Concordia Journal

Deluded by the illusion of self-mastery and bolstered by the culture’s eager affirmation of the supremacy of the individual, autonomous man is as resistant to the incursion of a new ruler as was Herod of Jerusalem.


Advent 4 • Isaiah 7:10–17 • December 22, 2013, Wally Becker Sep 2015

Advent 4 • Isaiah 7:10–17 • December 22, 2013, Wally Becker

Concordia Journal

The sign of Immanuel is a sign of hope and promise, of grace and mercy, for Jesus has come to be with us, with forgiveness, life, and salvation.


Proper 12 • Deuteronomy 7:6-9 • July 27, 2014, Thomas Manteufel Sep 2015

Proper 12 • Deuteronomy 7:6-9 • July 27, 2014, Thomas Manteufel

Concordia Journal

God, our faithful God, keeps his word and covenant in redemption and forgiveness.


Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Joel Okamoto Sep 2015

Lent 5 • Ezekiel 37:1–14 • April 6, 2014, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

Psalm 118:22, “The stone the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.” Some who saw and heard Jesus firsthand did not believe but instead killed him.


Lent 4 • Isaiah 42:14–21 • March 30, 2014, Robert Kolb Sep 2015

Lent 4 • Isaiah 42:14–21 • March 30, 2014, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

Turn to the execution of his promise in Christ, the one who opens our ears to God’s communication, his torah, and who opens our eyes to his concern for us, both in his anguish over our sins and in his love that delivers us from evil.


Epiphany • Ephesians 3:1–12 • January 4, 2015, Joel Okamoto Sep 2015

Epiphany • Ephesians 3:1–12 • January 4, 2015, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

Now, instead of the law separating Jews and Gentiles, God offered salvation apart from works of the law to both Jews and Gentiles.


Proper 21 • Ezekiel 18:1–4, 25–32 • September 28, 2014, Kent Burreson Sep 2015

Proper 21 • Ezekiel 18:1–4, 25–32 • September 28, 2014, Kent Burreson

Concordia Journal

The preacher is encouraged to give attention to the rhetorical structure of the pericope that reconstructs a conversation between Yahweh and Israel through Ezekiel, although decidedly from God’s perspective.


Proper 14 • Job 38:4–18 • August 10, 2014, David Maxwell Sep 2015

Proper 14 • Job 38:4–18 • August 10, 2014, David Maxwell

Concordia Journal

In keeping with the flow of the book of Job, the preacher should replace the listener’s sense of indignation with a sense of wonder at God’s majesty and his grace.


Biblical Resources For Preaching, James Thompson James.Thompson@Acu.Edu Jul 2012

Biblical Resources For Preaching, James Thompson James.Thompson@Acu.Edu

Leaven

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Biblical Resources For Preaching, James Thompson Jul 2012

Biblical Resources For Preaching, James Thompson

Leaven

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Biblical Resources For Preaching, James Thompson Jul 2012

Biblical Resources For Preaching, James Thompson

Leaven

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Preaching In The Worldly Church: Where Have We Come From And Where Are We Going?, Mike Casey Jul 2012

Preaching In The Worldly Church: Where Have We Come From And Where Are We Going?, Mike Casey

Leaven

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Biblical Resources For Preaching, Rick Marrs, Wendell Willis Jul 2012

Biblical Resources For Preaching, Rick Marrs, Wendell Willis

Leaven

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A Basketful Of Joy: Deuteronomy 26.1-11, A Sermon, Wayne Dockery Jul 2012

A Basketful Of Joy: Deuteronomy 26.1-11, A Sermon, Wayne Dockery

Leaven

No abstract provided.