In this final volume of the Channels of Listening series, Mary Alice Mulligan and Ronald Allen turn to sermon listeners for advice on how to create more engaging and meaningful sermons. Drawing on the first large-scale systematic study of how listeners themselves describe the experience of hearing sermons and how those reports can influence preaching, Mulligan and Allen identify twelve qualities or characteristics that listeners most commonly seek in sermons. They use the listeners' own words to impart not just points that preachers would benefit from keeping in mind but also a real sense of how and why these qualities are important to the listener. The study this book is based on revealed that the participants went to church eager to hear the sermon. They said they believe sermons impact their lives and have the power to help them build a closer relationship to God. In this book, they talk openly and candidly about what makes a sermon meaningful to them and what blocks the message and turns them away. Their testimonies are a plea to preachers to listen and to learn.

Make The Word Come Alive: Lessons From Laity

Allen, Ronald J.

Mulligan, Mary Alice

Religion & Spirituality

Chalice Pr

Lent calls us to undertake a journey, a step-by-step process in which our view of the world shifts almost imperceptibly - until we look around and realize how far we've come. Pastor and scholar Mary Alice Mulligan leads us through Jesus' journey to Jerusalem, examining the scriptures in which Jesus calls on his Disciples to leave everything and follow him, is baptized and announcements his ministry, predicts his own death, clears the temple and pledges to rebuild it in three days, and proclaims God's love for all. During Holy Week, Mulligan takes us through the events of that long-ago week with fresh eyes, new ways to understand an old story. Entries begin with the darkness of Ash Wednesday and voyage through the glory of Easter morning. These concise entries include scripture, reflections, suggested spiritual practices, and a prayer. Entries are undated, making this a perennial resource.

Go to Jerusalem: A Lenten Devotional

Christian Books & Bibles

Chalice Press

Living Pulpit: Sermons That Illustrate Preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement 1968-2018

Fifty years of preaching excellence in one volume. 
The Living Pulpit collects sermons from representative preachers in the Stone-Campbell Movement--pastors affiliated with the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--over the past 50 years. The fourth volume in a series that began in 1868, this collection of sermons from 40 ministers, reviewed by a diverse team of scholars, captures the theological themes and changing approaches to preaching across the Movement's three streams. Emerging from an era of mutual suspicion, the three streams have developed a better understanding, shared mutuality and respect for each stream's unique qualities, and cooperated in many venues, qualities reflected in this collection. The Living Pulpit 2018 helps preachers and scholars recognize where preaching has been--and why it has been there--in each stream, and where preaching appears to be going in a new mission field for Christianity and the Unity Movement.

Fifty years of preaching excellence in one volume. The Living Pulpit collects sermons from representative preachers in the Stone-Campbell Movement--pastors affiliated with the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--over the past 50 years. The fourth volume in a series that began in 1868, this collection of sermons from 40 ministers, reviewed by a diverse team of scholars, captures the theological themes and changing approaches to preaching across the Movement's three streams. Emerging from an era of mutual suspicion, the three streams have developed a better understanding, shared mutuality and respect for each stream's unique qualities, and cooperated in many venues, qualities reflected in this collection. The Living Pulpit 2018 helps preachers and scholars recognize where preaching has been--and why it has been there--in each stream, and where preaching appears to be going in a new mission field for Christianity and the Unity Movement.

Christian Board of Publication

Book by Mulligan, Mary Alice, Burrow, Rufus, Jr.

Daring to Speak in God's Name: Ethical Prophecy in Ministry

Burrow, Rufus, Jr.

Pilgrim Pr

Standing in the Margin consists of 12 small-group study sessions for adults to challenge individuals and congregations to stand with those who have the least. With care and insight based on their years of experience, Mulligan and Burrow explore the biblical and theological roots of ministry with the poor, disenfranchised, and others who live in the margins, and offer practical, hands-on help for how to minister with--not to--those who live and work at the edge of society.

Standing in the Margin: How Your Congregation Can Minister With the Poor (and perhaps recover its soul in the process)

Believing in Preaching reveals the diverse ways that congregations listen to sermons. Interview excerpts from an extensive study and homileticians' analyses help preachers to see how sermons affect the faith of their congregations and how they can use preaching to shape congregations' understandings.

Believing in Preaching: What Listeners Hear in Sermons

Allen, Dr. Ronald J.

Turner-Sharazz, Prof Diane

Lucas Park Books

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Make The Word Come Alive: Lessons From Laity

Go to Jerusalem: A Lenten Devotional

Living Pulpit: Sermons That Illustrate Preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement 1968-2018

Living Pulpit: Sermons That Illustrate Preaching in the Stone-Campbell Movement 1968-2018

Daring to Speak in God's Name: Ethical Prophecy in Ministry

Standing in the Margin: How Your Congregation Can Minister With the Poor (and perhaps recover its soul in the process)

Believing in Preaching: What Listeners Hear in Sermons