{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Anointed expository preaching \/ Stephen F. Olford with David L. Olford ; foreword by Adrian Rogers.","author":"Olford, Stephen F.","isbn":"0805460853","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Broadman & Holman Publishers"},"datePublished":"1998","inLanguage":"English","description":"Part 1 : the walk to pursue -- The preacher and the call of God -- The preacher and the word of God -- The preacher and the life of God -- The preacher and the man of God -- The preacher and the work of God -- Part 2 : the work to perform -- The preacher and exposition -- The preacher and preparation : selection -- The preacher and preparation : investigation -- The preacher and preparation : organization -- The preacher and preparation : finalization -- The preacher and communication -- Part 3 : the word to proclaim -- The preacher and consecration -- The preacher and proclamation -- The preacher and comprehension -- The preacher and application -- The preacher and invitation -- The preacher and conservation -- The preacher and inculcation -- The preacher and motivation. \r\n \tAbstract\tWhat is \"expository preaching?\" In this brilliant new book, Dr. Stephen F. Olford and Dr. David L. Olford, both widely respected preachers in their own right, define \"expository preaching\" (\"exposing Scripture instead of imposing upon it\"), teach its technique, and express its significance. This book equips and encourages preachers of all kinds to respect their calling and minister God's inerrant Word by the Olfords' marvelous method.\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: xiv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Business and professional speaking","author":"Skopec, E. W.","isbn":"0131075322","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Prentice-Hall"},"datePublished":"1983","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Englewood Cliffs\n\nPhysical description: vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Children are from heaven : positive parenting skills for raising cooperative, confident, and compassionate children \/ John Gray.","author":"Gray, J.","isbn":"9780060930998","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Quill"},"datePublished":"2001","inLanguage":"English","description":"Children are from heaven -- What makes the five messages work -- New skills to create cooperation -- New skills to minimize resistence -- New skills form improving communication -- New skills for increasing motivation -- New skills for asserting leadership -- New skills for maintaining control -- It's okay to be different -- It's okay to make mistakes -- It's okay to express negative emotions -- It's okay to want more -- It's okay to say no, but mom and dad are the bosses -- Putting the five messages into practice. \r\n \tAbstract\tThis brilliantly original and practical system for parenting children is the brainchild of John Gray, whose Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus books and seminars have helped millions of adults communicate more effectively and lovingly with each other. Based on the idea that children respond better to positive rather than negative reinforcement, the Children Are from Heaven program concentrates on rewarding, not punishing, children and fostering their innate desire to please their parents.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: xxxiii, 357 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Communicate like a pro","author":"Qubein, N. R.","isbn":"0131537342","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Prentice-Hall"},"datePublished":"1983","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Englewood Cliffs\n\nPhysical description: ix, 204 pages ; 21 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Communication @ work \/ H. Norman Wright.","author":"Wright, H. N.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Regal Books"},"datePublished":"2001","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: VENTRA,CALIFORNIA\n\nPhysical description: 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Death and ministry : pastoral care of the dying and the bereaved \/ J. Donald Bane [and others] editors.","author":"Bane, J. D","isbn":"0816402604","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Seabury Press"},"datePublished":"1975","inLanguage":"English","description":"Part I. Personal Perspectives -- A personal odyssey : experiencing the human \/ Peter H. Beisheim -- A crisis \/ Judith Best -- The impact of the death of patients on the minister's (chaplain's) faith \/ John M. Humphreys -- Vignette \/ Zelda Foster -- To write about death, we must contemplate our own death \/ Cima Star -- Response to the threat of death, immediate and\/or postponed \/ Carroll A. Wise -- Part II. Ministry to the dying -- Ministry to the dying as a learning encounter \/ Carl A. Nightswonger -- Another look at the hopeless chase \/ Joseph R. Proulx -- The waiting vulture syndrome \/ Glenn W. Davidson -- Prayer and the dying patient : intimacy without exposure \/ Daniel C. DeArment -- The dying patient's concept of God \/ David H.C. Read -- The psychological function of religion to the dying patient \/ Edgar Draper -- Communication and pain \/ Kenneth A. Chandler -- Part III. Ministry to the bereaved -- The cup of Mithradetes \/ William L. Nate, Jr. -- Bereavement : an opportunity for emotional growth \/ Harry S. Olin and Grace B. Olin -- Mourning, family dynamics, and pastoral care \/ Richard G. Bruehl -- Consoling the bereaved in the weeks after the funeral \/ Walter Debold -- The grief work cycle in Judaism \/ Steven Moss -- The bereaved in the hospital \/ Carleton J. Sweetser -- Bereavement : a pediatric view \/ Rudolf Toch -- Divorce and grief \/ John Freund -- Part IV. Clergy and the medical professionals -- Problems which confront the minister \/ Edward F. Dobihal -- The clergyman as the dying patient's agent \/ Robert M. Veatch -- The physician's ministry to the dying \/ James A. Knight -- Alternatives to cure in ministration to the dying \/ Joseph R. Proulx -- Learning to talk with the cancer patient \/ Arnoldus Goudsmit -- Ministerial leadership in thanatology \/ J. William Worden -- The minister as part of health care team \/ J. Donald Bane and Elizabeth Dorsey I. Smith -- Part V. What does death mean? -- The agnostic and the religious : their coping with death \/ Paul E. Irion -- The concept of bereavement \/ H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Bereavement in New Testament perspective \/ Schuyler P. Brown -- The trouble with the concept \"death\" \/ George M. Schurr -- Perspectives on death : philosophical and theological \/ James M. Demske -- Mortality and the fear of death \/ Lloyd R. Bailey -- Developing a theology of death \/ Peter H. Beisheim -- Death and incarnation \/ William B. Frazier.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: ix, 278 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Developing a strategy for missions : a biblical, historical, and cultural introduction \/ John Mark Terry, J.D. Payne.","author":"Terry, John Mark; Payne, Jervis, David","isbn":"9780801039539","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group"},"datePublished":"2013","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tStrategy defined -- The crafting of mission strategy -- Contemporary objections to missionary strategy -- Strategic planning in biblical perspective -- Missiological principles for strategy development -- The apostle Paul's missionary strategy -- Missions strategy in the early church -- Roman Catholic strategy -- Pioneer Protestant strategies -- Faith missions strategy -- Mission strategies on the American frontier -- The indigenous mission strategy -- The church growth movement -- Frontier strategies -- Contextualization strategies -- Understanding cultural research -- Developing a people-group profile -- Developing a communication strategy -- Discerning receptivity -- Discerning need -- Visioning for the future -- Forming a team -- Assessing the resources -- Setting goals -- Choosing appropriate methods -- Execution -- Evaluation.\r\n\r\nAbstract: \t\"In this addition to the highly acclaimed Encountering Mission series, two leading missionary scholars offer an up-to-date discussion of missionary strategy that is designed for a global audience. The authors focus on the biblical, missiological, historical, cultural, and practical issues that inform and guide the development of an effective missions strategy. The book includes all the features that have made other series volumes useful classroom tools, such as figures, sidebars, and case studies. Students of global or domestic mission work and mission practitioners will value this new resource\"--Publisher description.\r\n\r\nOther Notes \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Michigan\n\nPhysical description: x, 287 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Finding the right words : offering care and comfort when you don't know what to say \/ Wilfred Bockelman.","author":"Bockelman, W.","isbn":"0806624442","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Augsburg Pub. House"},"datePublished":"1990","inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Minneapolis\n\nPhysical description: 80 pages ; 18 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Healing life's sore spots \/ Frank A. Kostyu.","author":"Kostyu, Frank A.","isbn":"0801533562","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hawthorn Books"},"datePublished":"1976","inLanguage":"English","description":"Here is HELP for dealing with those \"bruises of the spirit\" ... Anger, Indecision, Loneliness, Regret, Unhappiness, Noncommunication, Stress, Fear, Ingratitude, Guilt, Anxiety, Panic, and Grief.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: ix, 156 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Helping couples change : a social learning approach to marital therapy \/ Richard B. Stuart ; forewords by Carlfred Broderick and Alan S. Gurman.","author":"Stuart, R.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Guilford Press"},"datePublished":"1980","inLanguage":"English","description":"Why Treat Troubled Marriages? -- Values and Philosophy in Selecting Marital Therapy Goals and Methods -- Techniques of Therapy Based on Social Learning Theory -- Assessing Troubled Marriages -- Structuring the Therapeutic Process -- Caring Days: A Technique for Building Commitment to Faltering Marriages -- Communication Change -- Structuring Behavior Exchanges -- Allocating the Authority to Make Decisions -- Conflict Containment -- Sex Therapy \/ Freida M. Stuart, D. Corydon Hammond -- Maintaining Results.\n\nPublished in: NEWYORK\n\nPhysical description: xv, 442 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}