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The Spirituality of Black Preaching: Advice to Young Preachers on the Heart of Black Preaching
As a scholar of the Bible and the Black Church, Brogdon seeks to help young African American preachers effectively integrate biblical studies and homiletics, integrate in ways that deepen sermons, stimulate faith in the context of worship, and strengthen churches as they seek to give witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. He seeks to provide the hundreds and thousands of African American ministers who will never attend seminary or a university, yet will touch hundreds and thousands of lives with the resources they need for effective, life-changing preaching.
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The Holy Spirit and Social Justice: History, Race & Culture
The Holy Spirit and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Global Perspectives: History, Race & Culture is a critical examination of historical, social, and cultural issues that challenge the Christian community through the lens of major scholars within the contemporary renewal movement.
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Wounded in the House of a Friend: A Biblical Guide to Overcoming Church Hurt
Wounded in the House of a Friend delves into the depths of this sensitive issue of church hurt. The book does not shy away from the difficult questions that arise from it. It addresses the sense of betrayal, disillusionment, and doubt that comes, while shedding light on the potential for growth and transformation.
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A Way out of No Way: Miraculous Stuff You Can’t Make Up
Philosophical arguments against Christian faith have persisted for over 2000 years. But the Church survives because Christ is a resurrected Savior and His Spirit animates the Church. Jesus continues to be its head and accomplishes seemingly impossible things in the lives of believers. Philosophical arguments for and against faith will end in a draw or be won by debaters who claim superior intellect. But what is irrefutable is the evidence that the God of Scripture works in the lives of His people, doing things that they cannot make up or fabricate. The living word of God provides encounters of divine protection, providence, and provision, and these miraculous doings have kept believers looking up!
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Spirit Revived: Essays from Sprit: A Journal of Issues Incident to Black Pentecostalism
This volume brings together compelling scholarship, personal reflections, and historical insights from one of the most influential forums on Black Pentecostal life and thought. These essays illuminate the rich theology, culture, and social engagement of a movement that has shaped communities, inspired generations, and testified to the enduring power of the Spirit.
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My Perfect God
My Perfect God is a poetic work that reflects the majesty and grandeur of God, but also reveals the profound personal relationship between the author and God as experienced through her own spiritual journey. The elements of nature come alive in this work to speak as living beings striving to convey their connection to God and their understanding of their relationship with God. This work of contemplative, elemental, spiritual, and reverent poetry brings to the surface reflections on life’s circumstances, interactions with friends, familial bonds, and memories of days gone by.
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The Will to Power: Confronting Ideologies that Dismantle Christian Community
A socio-theological exploration of the underlying root, types, and expressions of prejudice and the outworking of the various isms that continue to fracture the Christian faith community as well as wreak havoc within the broader culture. Offers a corrective that can open a conversation toward genuine reconciliation in situating our identity in our createdness in the image of God rather than from our particular communities of belonging.
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The Other Pentecostalism: Alternative Themes in Contemporary Renewal Spirituality:
The Other Pentecostalism: Alternative Themes in Contemporary Renewal Spirituality revisits themes within the Pentecostal movement from the vantage point of alternative interpretations of issues that have shaped the contours of the movement within the broader Christian. It suggests that more than simply a “tongues movement,” Pentecostal spirituality has something of importance to contribute to a variety of conversations.
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Skin Deep: Pentecostalism, Racism and the Church:
Skin Deep is essays by scholars in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN) that engages Pentecostalism, Racism, and the Church. The essays speak to these issues from the vantage points of biblical studies, theology, history, critical race studies and social studies.
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The Spirit of the Lord: Renewal Spirituality, Biblical Justice and the Prophetic Witness of the Church:
The Spirit of the Lord calls on Christians within Renewal traditions to examine the relationship between personal and social holiness and encourages pastors and leaders to draw on our biblical heritage and appreciation for the authority of Scripture, the witness of Spirit-filled forefathers and mothers, and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to engage the critical issues of injustice facing the contemporary church and society.
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The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah: Artificial Intelligence Technology and the End Times
The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah is an insightful perspective on the impact of the technological revolution on humanity. This work tackles the multifaceted world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms, and eugenics. Most significantly, The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah critically examines the implications technology will have on racial disparities in health, economics, jobs, and other critical segments of global society.
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Justice in Jesus’ Name: Early Black Apostolic Involvement in Civil Rights Struggles
The untold story of the contribution of African American Apostolic leaders such as Bishop R.C. Lawson, Bishop Smallwood E. Williams, Bishop Lawrence Campbell, Bishop James W. Parrott, and Dr. Joan Parrott, whose collective contributions impacted millions of lives.