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Liberating Faith: Reimaging Christian Education As Transformative
Liberating Faith: Reimagining Christian Education as Transformative traces Pentecostal theological development while calling it toward renewed purpose. This work challenges us to move beyond inherited assumptions and interpretive schemes that obscure the original Scriptural intent, examining presuppositions and eisegesis that have, at times, stunted understanding. In doing so, this book proposes that Christian education can be a means of liberation – guiding believers toward deeper engagement with the historical, grammatical, and spiritual context of the biblical text so that faith might be both fervent and informed.
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The Letters to the Seven Churches
More than just an end-time prophecy of doom or glory, the first three chapters of the book Revelation hold practical insight into the everyday circumstances and hard struggles of Christians in the contemporary Church and society. Hear and understand what the Spirit is saying to seven real congregations who wrestle with common issues that challenge faith in every age: how to live faithfully and without compromise and the midst of an unbelieving culture. These letters provide an opportunity to examine ourselves, our congregations and the contemporary Church to determine how we measure up in with God. The final two chapters provide the believer with assurance that though we may fall short and there will be struggles, the story ends in victory.
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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 Politics of the Spirit: Pentecostal Reflections on Public Responsibility and the Common Good
This collection of essays, edited by Daniela C. Augustine and Chris E.W. Green and written by leading and emerging Pentecostal scholars, addresses a range of historical, theological, and socio-economic issues that bear on political life-including racism, environmental justice, art, immigration, and mental health-and provides a biblical and theological framework for Pentecostals concerned for the common good.
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The Holy Spirit and Social Justice Interdisciplinary Global Perspectives: Scripture and Theology
Pentecostal scholars explore issues of faith and social justice from a variety of disciplines and global perspectives
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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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With Water and Spirit: History of African American Apostolic Denominations In the U.S.
With Water and Spirit traces the history of the African American Oneness Pentecostal Movement through the development of its major denominations. Examines the theological issues, major schisms, and important personalities that shaped the movement for its first fifty years.
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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 and Struggle: Collected Essays by James S. Tinney on Faith, Identity and Community
Gathers the provocative and insightful writings of a pioneering voice in the study of Black religion and Pentecostalism. Blending scholarly depth with prophetic urgency, Tinney explores the intersections of faith, racial identity, and social transformation—calling readers to a deeper engagement with both the Spirit’s power and the struggle for justice.
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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 Suicide of Robert
Grim statistics point to the alarming fact that the rate of suicide among Christians has risen in recent years. And unfortunately, pastors are included among the number of Christians who are choosing this method to relieve the unbearable stress of their vocation. What has gone wrong? Where has the strength of faith gone? What is causing Christian pastors to abandon their trust on the power of God to sustain them in perilous times? Robert, the protagonist in this narrative, is one pastor who chose suicide as his escape. But the outcome of this choice was strange and quite unexpected!
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Saving Christianity: Why Millions of Christians are Dropping Out of Congregations
This book is about why millions of Christians are giving up and dropping out of their congregations; why thousands of Christian buildings are being abandoned; and why thousands of pastors, priests, and other Christian workers are resigning their posts to take up secular careers. It shows why returning to Early Christian basics can give any Christian a new Spiritual life – can have the same love and miracles today that the original Christians had then – if we do f the things they did and live the “Early Christian Lifestyle.”
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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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William Seymour: A Biography
This work is the story of the remarkable African American leader who led the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906 and is credited for launching the twentieth-century American Pentecostal movement and several denominations. Blind in one eye yet in possession of remarkable spiritual vision, few believers are aware of Seymour. The son of ex-slaves was passionate about racial reconciliation and his desire for unity in the body of Christ has much to say to the Pentecostal movement and the entire church.
