volumes ; 25 cm
"The Library of Distinctive Sermons brings together a collection of powerful contemporary sermons of diverse style and content, along with careful reflection as to what makes each sermon effective, and how each sermon relates to biblical, theological, and practical ministry issues facing pastors today."--Preface
Includes bibliographical references
V.1 -- Between two worlds : from Easter to eternity / Rev. Dr. David L. Williamson -- Good luck, bad luck -- who is to say? / Rev. Dr. John R. Claypool -- Shared any good yokes lately? / Rev. Richard A. Davis -- "$3 worth of God, please" / Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn -- What creates happiness? / Rev. Dr. Scott Walker -- The purpose of worship / Rev. Dr. Geoffrey V. Guns -- Finding spiritual meaning in a spiritless world / Rev. Dr. John Killinger -- Hide and seek : the celestial game of spiritual quest / Rev. Dr. Stephen Brachlow -- Secrets of the heart / Rev. D. Stuart Briscoe -- When bootstraps can't help / Rev. Dr. John Eagen -- The ecology of the soul / Rev. Dr. Russell Friend-Jones -- "Who gives a rip?" / Rev. Dr. Gary W. Downing -- Crushed kingdoms and kingdom dreams / Dr. Scott Wenig -- Look at your life / Rev. John Ackerman -- Not alone / Rev. Earl Palmer -- Investing in futures : the life of Barnabas / Rev. Pete Briscoe -- I was in the crowd / Rev. Dr. Gary Whitbeck -- Second-chance religion / Rev. Maurice A. Fetty -- On getting a fair deal in your career / Dr. Calvin Miller -- The Christmas light / Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts
V.2 -- He has been raised / Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon -- A labor not in vain / Rev. Dr. R. Wayne Stacy -- How to throw a party / Rev. Martin B. Copenhaver -- A greater gift / Rev. Dr. Russell Friend-Jones -- God goes before you / Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn -- Next time / Rev. Dr. John R. Claypool -- Grain pickers and nit pickers / Rev. Richard A. Davis -- He calls us / Rev. John Ackerman -- Do you want to get well? / Rev. Dr. Scott Walker -- Dormitories, cemeteries, and nurseries / Rev. Maurice A. Fetty -- On openings in heaven vs. muddling through / Dr. Ron Durham -- Get ready! / Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher -- Mommy, why am I different? / Rev. Dr. Gary W. Downing -- All the king's horses / Rev. Wesley C. Reagan -- On the road again : the journey of life / Rev. Dr. Bruce Larson -- Lord of the dance / Rev. Dr. Gary Furr -- Searching for God in America / Dr. Roberta Hestenes -- Jesus the messiah? / Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts -- First in ten / Rev. Dr. David Schnittger -- The "aye" of the storm / Rev. Dr. John Killinger
V.3 -- When we are lacking direction / Rev. D. Stuart Briscoe -- Unnatural compassion / Rev. Dr. Martin B. Copenhaver -- In a new light / Rev. Dr. J. Barry Vaughn -- Lord, teach us to pray / Rev. Earl Palmer -- I believe in Jesus Christ / Dr. Roberta Hestenes -- Martha's feast and Mary's portion / Rev. Dr. Gilbert R. Friend-Jones -- Crowd control on Palm Sunday / Dr. Bruce L. Shelley -- Can I sing when the going gets tough? / Rev. Dr. William Powell Tuck -- How "user-friendly churches" get used / Dr. William H. Willimon -- Peace for the journey / Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher -- Pilgrim people, pilgrim faith / Rev. Dr. Stephen Brachlow -- Jesus the word / Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts -- Finding peace / Rev. Dr. Gary A. Furr -- The power of your story / Rev. Dr. Scott Walker -- Where are you headed? / Rev. Dr. Norman Neaves -- The nearness of God / Dr. John Killinger -- Blessed are the desperate / Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn -- The scandal in sandals / Rev. Richard A. Davis -- No looking back / Rev. Rick Brand -- Keeping stress from becoming distress / Rev. Rick McDaniel
V.4 -- Words, words, words / Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long -- On making a covenant with your strategic self-importance / Dr. Calvin A. Miller -- What Jesus believes about you / Rev. Dr. John R. Claypool -- Our molten moments / Rev. Dr. Michael P. Halcomb -- The tohu wabohu! / Rev. Dr. Garth R. Thompson -- Who prays for us? / Dr. Elizabeth Achtemeier -- Forget my sins, remember me / Rev. Dr. Frank Pollard -- Lessons from the narrow places of life / Rev. Dr. William Powell Tuck -- Rich young ruler meets poor young servant / Rev. Dr. David L. Williamson -- The long way home / Rev. Dr. Gary A. Furr -- Time : the best or worst? / Rev. Dr. Edward A. Saucier -- Between the garden and the cross / Vicki Covington -- Between "once upon a time" and "happily ever after" / Rev. Dr. J. Barry Vaughn -- The most difficult prayer / Rev. Dr. Martin B. Copenhaver -- With me / Rev. Casey Alexander -- Meeting God where you are / Rev. Dr. Gary Stratman -- Consequences of forgiven sin / Rev. Ben Haden -- How to survive the storms of life / Rev. Dennis Kizziar -- What's that mean? / Rev. Dr. Curtis W. Freeman -- Faith at work / Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher
V.5 -- Bruised reeds and dimly burning wicks / Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long -- Sight for sore eyes / Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher -- Temple crossing / Rev. Dr. Richard Eslinger -- The man Jesus / Rev. Dr. Buckner Fanning -- Blessed by mentors / Rev. Dr. F. Dean Lueking -- On taking pain seriously / Rev. Dr. John Killinger -- Ellipsis and eternity / Rev. Dr. Michael P. Halcomb -- Meanwhile / Rev. Dr. William J. Ireland, Jr. -- Risky business / Rev. Dr. Paul S. Wilson -- The visit of the magi / Rev. Dr. Gary A. Furr -- What are you doing here? / Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn -- Practicing forgiveness / Rev. Dr. Curtis W. Freeman -- Lost and found : climbing the wrong ladder / Rev. John F. Crosby -- A dangerous disturbance / Rev. Dr. Robert T. Snell -- Praying in the darkness at noon / Rev. Dr. Stephen Brachlow -- The love that lies beneath the woe / Rev. Dr. John Mark Jones -- A surprising unconventional friend / Rev. Dr. David L. Williamson -- Life as it is supposed to be lived / Rev. Dr. Gary Dennis -- What really changes people? / Rev. Ronald W. Higdon -- The begetting of Jesus / Rev. Dr. Martin B. Copenhaver
V.6 -- Jesus' final exam / Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long -- How much more? / Rev. Dr. Richard L. Eslinger -- Becoming what we are / Rev. William C. Green -- A letter to Harold / Rev. Dr. Kenneth A. Corr -- The text you live by / Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs -- Angels we have heard nearby / Rev. Dr. R. Wayne Stacy -- Jesus the rabbi? / Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts -- When the night is darkest / Rev. Dr. John Killinger -- Coming up short / Rev. Jeffrey M. Lindsay -- All that lives must die / Rev. Dr. John Mark Jones -- A crazy, holy grace / Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn -- A comfort, deep and lasting / Rev. Dr. F. Dean Lueking -- Freedom! / Mary Ruth Howes -- The christic journey / Rev. Dr. Gilbert R. Friend-Jones -- Easter fear / Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher -- Dealing with negative attitudes / Rev. Dr. Gary A. Furr -- Stepping off the curb / Rev. Dr. Michael P. Halcomb -- Religious closed-mindedness / Rev. John G. Hargis -- Led by a lamb / Rev. Dr. C. David Matthews -- When the wine gives out / Rev. Dr. William J. Ireland, Jr
V.7 -- The teacher / Dr. William H. Willimon -- Hanging between heaven and earth / Rev. Dr. George A. Mason -- Lest we forget / Rev. Dr. David C. Fisher -- The bite of irony / Rev. Dr. Richard L. Eslinger -- Invitations / Rev. Dr. Peter J. Gomes -- Let us love one another / Rev. Dr. Kenneth A. Corr -- Christianity : reality or fantasy? / Rev. Dr. John R. Claypool -- Angels / Dr. Gabriel Fackre -- Cart and horse / Rev. Dr. Faye E. Schott -- The reality of evil and the presence of God / Rev. Dr. John Mark Jones -- The one handed over / Rev. Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker -- Christ born in you / Rev. Dr. Norman Theiss -- By grace alone through faith alone / Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Wood -- The lord of our wavering / Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs -- If it makes you happy / Karen Fisher Younger -- Saved by a stumbling savior / Rev. Dr. William J. Ireland, Jr. -- The measure of one's greatness / Rev. Dr. Russell J. Levenson, Jr. -- Hope / Howard E. Butt, Jr. -- God on the gallows / Rev. Dr. Wayne Stacy -- The easiest place to get lost / Rev. Dr. C. David Matthews
V.8 -- Humility and hospitality / Rev. Dr. John R. Claypool -- It is finished / Rev. Keith Beasley-Topliffe -- Facing the giant / Rev. Dr. C. David Matthews -- Suffering and hope / Rev. Dr. Gabriel Fackre -- Until we find our place / Rev. Dr. George A. Mason -- Living on dishonest wealth / Rev. Dr. Stanley Hauerwas -- Leftovers / Rev. Dr. Gary A. Farr -- Three seconds of light / Rev. Dr. Hugh Litchfield -- A political joke / Dr. William H. Willimon -- Dealing with our doubts / Rev. Dr. Michael P. Halcomb -- Saying no, saying yes / Rev. Norman Theiss -- The trouble with Jesus / Rev. Dr. John Mark Jones -- Confessions of a skeptic / Howard E. Butt, Jr. -- Standing firm / Rev. Rick Brand -- Tears for a princess, cheers for a prince / Rev. Richard A. Davis -- The mystery of Christmas / Rev. Ronald Grizzle -- Point of origin / Rev. Dr. Harold C. Warlick, Jr. -- Whosoever, whithersoever / Rev. Dr. Martin B. Copenhaver -- Experiencing a mid-crisis life / Rev. Dr. Frank Pollard -- Thy will be done / Rev. Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker
V.9 -- Tender nurses / Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor -- The mobil station / Rev. Dr. John W. Vannorsdall -- When God says no / Rev. Dr. M. Craig Barnes -- Seeing is believing / Rev. Laura S. Roberts -- The authority to forgive / Rev. Norman Theiss -- The humanity of the church / Rev. Cynthia A. Jarvis -- On knowing who you really are / Rev. Dr. John Killinger -- A temptation, an insight, and a promise / Rev. Dr. Mark D. Wickstrom -- The church that cried wolf / Rev. David Maddalena -- Weaving the threads of waiting / Rev. Jan L. Richardson -- Running out of rocks to throw / Rev. Dr. Harold C. Warlick, Jr. -- Outside of Eden / Rev. Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn -- The cruelty of peace / Rev. Dr. Stanley Hauerwas -- The way of the cross / Rebecca Manley Pippert -- What do you want? / Rev. Dr. George A. Mason -- The worst and the last / Rev. Dr. John R. Claypool -- Is "spirituality" a four-letter word? / Rev. Dr. Corrine Ware -- The other side of God / Rev. Dr. Robert Smith, Jr. -- The dark terror of the good news / Rev. Dr. John Mark Jones -- Thrones and boats, hot coals, cold fish / Rev. Daniel Meeter

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The library of distinctive sermons, volume nine

The library of distinctive sermons : volume two

The library of distinctive sermons : volume 1

The library of distinctive sermons : volume 9

The library of distinctive sermons : volume 4

The library of distinctive sermons : volume 7

Gary W. Klingsporn, general editor

Questar; Gary W. Klingsporn

Multnomah Publishers, Incorporated

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Multnomah Women's Fiction

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Sisters, Or, ©1996-<c1997>

Sisters, Or, Oregon, 1996

First Thus, PS, 1996

Peabody, Mass, 2001

November 25, 1998

Sisters, Or, 2001

February 8, 1996

December 1, 1996

February 1, 1998

August 22, 1996

October 1, 1997

August 1, 1997

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1997-10-01

Includes bibliographical references.

2023-06-28