Preaching Through a Storm

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Zondervan, 1987 - 224 Seiten

The context was a building program for an urban congregation. The beginning bore no omens of controversy. But before long, both the pastor (the author) and the congregation found themselves in a storm that threatened the church's very existence and the pastor's future in ministry. It is common in this kind of storm that neither the preacher nor his flock will expect to hear from God. But the arresting message of this book is that it is often through the preaching itself that God speaks to the issues of conflict. It is through preaching that the issues are resolved, and neither the pastor nor the people are left unchanged. By example and by precept this book shows how to weather a storm in the only successful way--by preaching through it under the guiding hand of a compassionate God who knows our human anguish. This is a book you cannot afford to ignore. For, as one preacher puts it, you're either "coming out of a storm, in a storm, or heading for a storm."

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Inhalt

Preace
11
Predicting a Storm
35
Maintaining Relationships
55
The Eye of the Storm
71
The Identity of Evil
85
If It Had Not Been for the Lord
100
Tragedy or Triumph?
128
The Storm Is Passing Over
157
Preparing for the Next Storm
182
Storms Keep Coming
193
Notes
223
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Autoren-Profil (1987)

H. Beecher Hicks Jr. is the senior minister of Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington D.C. Designated one of the fifteen greatest African-American preachers by Ebony magazine, he is president of Martin Luther King Fellows, Inc., and Kerygma Associates.

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