{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"15 characteristics of effective pastors \/ Kevin W. Mannoia and Larry Walkermeyer","author":"Mannoia, Kevin W.; Walkermeyer, Larry","isbn":"9780830744770","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Regal Books"},"datePublished":"2007","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: Grace and growth -- Love for God -- Spiritual formation -- Personal integrity -- Love for the church -- Servant leader -- Model of holiness -- Prayer life -- Holy Spirit empowerment -- Inspired preaching -- Sure calling -- Godly character -- Personal accountability -- Strong marriage -- Visionary leadership.\r\n\r\nAbstract:  This invaluable guidebook explores the 15 character qualities of pastors who are deemed to be the most effective and offers hope to pastors and church leaders who are in doubt about how well they are doing in their role.\r\n\r\nOther Notes: Includes bibliographical references.\n\nPublished in: Ventura, Calif.\n\nPhysical description: 238 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":"4th dimensional living in a 3 dimensional world \/ David Yonggi Cho.","author":"Cho, Yong-gi","isbn":"9780882703121","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Bridge-Logos"},"datePublished":"2006","inLanguage":"English","description":"Many of Dr. Cho's books talk about life in the fourth dimension -- a realm that is more real than the physical world in which we live. He points out that the world we know was fashioned in the invisible fourth dimensions -- the spiritual realm -- and the things we see are only temoprary; whereas, spiritual things are eternal. In light of this, he wants each of us to gain entrance to the fourth dimension, the place where the God of might and miracles lives and moves.\n\nPublished in: Orlando, FL\n\nPhysical description: v, 150 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A biblical standard for evangelists \/ Billy Graham.","author":"Graham, B.","isbn":"0890660573","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"World Wide Publications"},"datePublished":"1984","inLanguage":"English","description":"Many years ago God gave me a vision of bringing together evangelists from all parts of the world for a conference. I never doubted that someday it would happen. It was simply a question of being sensitive to God's timing for such an event. As we look back, we can sense his guidance in every step toward it. I'll never forget the day the Conference opened. As I viewed the scene from the platform, my heart was filled with gratitude to God. The vision he gave me so many years before was being fulfilled in his perfect timing. The Conference was more than a great time of fellowship and worship with fellow-evangelists; it was a period of serious and strategic thinking and praying concerning the completion of the Great Commision. In Amsterdam God enabled us to learn from one another. Many evangelists expressed the hope that some type of brief \"code of standards\" for evangelists could be prepared. A carefully selected international committee was appointed to prepare this. Their final draft -- The Amsterdam Affirmations -- stated briefly but thoroughly the biblical foundation, the task, and the integrity of the evangelist. The participants joined in affirming verbally their commitment to each of the fifteen affirmations. It was suggested that I write an interpretive commentary on The Amsterdam Affirmations. It is my prayer that God will use this commentary to help Christians gain a greater vision for God's work in our world. God has placed us in a unique and opportune period of history. The fields are \"ripe for harvest.\" May we see a renewed dedication in this generation to the priority of evangelism on the part of every child of God. - Billy Graham, on back cover. A commentary on the fifteen Affirmations made by participants at the International Conference for Itenerant Evangelists in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1983.\n\nPublished in: Minneapolis, MN\n\nPhysical description: 131 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A Black theology of liberation \/ James H. Cone ; [foreword by Paulo Freire].","author":"Cone, J. H.","isbn":"0883442450","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Orbis Books"},"datePublished":"1986","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents\t1. The content of theology. Liberation as the content of theology. Liberation and black theology. Black theology and the black community. Black theology as survival theology. Black theology as passionate language -- 2. The sources and norm of black theology. The function of the sources and norm. The sources of black theology. The norm of black theology -- 3. The meaning of revelation. Revelation and American theology. The biblical view of revelation. General and special revelation. Bultmann's view of New Testament revelation -- 4. God in black theology. Must we discard God-language? Hermeneutical principle for the doctrine of God. New wine in new wineskins. God is black. The love and righteousness of God. Traditional theological language and the black God -- 5. The human being in black theology. American theology, existentialism, and black theology. The human being as endowed with freedom. The human being as a fallen creature -- 6. Jesus Christ in black theology. The historical Jesus and black theology. The character of the New Testament Jesus. The black Christ. The kingdom of God and the black Christ. -- 7. Church, world, and eschatology in black theology. The church. The world. Eschatology. \r\n\r\nOther Notes:\tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-151) and index.\n\nPublished in: Maryknoll, N.Y.\n\nPhysical description: xxii, 154 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":"2nd ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A C.S Lewis treasury \/ C.S. Lewis.","author":"Lewis, C. S.","isbn":"0151329168","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harcourt Brace Jovanovich"},"datePublished":"1960","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction -- Likings and loves for the sub-human -- Affection -- Friendship -- Eros -- Charity. \r\n \tAbstract\tAnalyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity. In this candid, wise and warmly personal book, C.S. Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love -- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. He explores the possibilities and problems of the love between parents and children; the love of men for other men and women for women; the love of men and women for each other; and the love of God that enriches all love. Lewis also explores the questions of sex, possessiveness, jealousy, pride, false sentimentality, good and bad manners in loving, and the need for more laughter between lovers. There are risks that accompany the rewards of love, the author cautions, but he recommends taking them, since \"hell is the only place outside of heaven where we can be safe from the dangers of love.\"--Back cover.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: 141 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A fresh new look at God \/ by Don Baker ; No wonder they call Him the Savior \/ Max Lucado.","author":"Baker, D.","isbn":"0880701048    978088","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Guideposts"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"Published in: Carmel, N.Y\n\nPhysical description: 164p.","bookEdition":"2 in 1 ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A new hearing : living options in homiletic methods \/ Richard L. Eslinger.","author":"Eslinger, R. L.","isbn":"0687276934","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Abingdon Press"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction -- Charles Rice: preaching as story -- A sermon for Pentecost Day \/ Charles Rice -- Henry Mitchell: narrative in the black tradition -- The providence of God \/ Henry Mitchell -- Eugene Lowry: narrative and the sermonic plot -- Swept upstream \/ Eugene Lowry -- Fred Craddock: the inductive method in preaching -- Surrounded \/ Fred Craddock -- David Buttrick: a phenomenological method -- Abraham and Isaac \/ David Buttrick -- Postscript: story and storytelling -- The wilderness and the dry land \/ John Vannorsdall -- Just look at us now \/ Deneise Deter-Rankin.\n\nPublished in: Philadelphia\n\nPhysical description: 191 pages ; 22 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A Passion for preaching : reflections on the art of preaching : essays in honor of Stephen F. Olford \/ compiled by David L. Olford.","author":"Olford, Stephen F.","isbn":"9780840772466","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Thomas Nelson"},"datePublished":"1989","inLanguage":"English","description":"pt. 1. Preaching: God's man. Profile of Stephen F. Olford. -- A tribute to Stephen F. Olford--as a father \/ Jonathan M. Olford. -- Reflections of a son \/ David L. Olford. -- Stephen F. Olford--as a preacher \/ W. Ian Barclay. -- pt. 2. Preaching: God's method. The infallible word of God \/ W.A. Criswell. -- Inerrancy: the issue is settled \/ W.L. Probasco. -- Preaching \/ Paul B. Smith. -- The primacy of preaching \/ Ray C. Stedman. -- Hooting owls on tombstones \/ D. Stuart Briscoe. -- Interpretation in preaching \/ Joel Gregory. -- Pastoral preaching \/ Philip Hacking. -- The art of preaching as an act of worship \/ Paul S. Rees. -- The theologian and the evangelist \/ Haddon W. Robinson. -- The power of preaching \/ Stephen F. Olford. -- pt. 3. Preaching: God's message. The cost of being a disciple \/ Gerald B. Griffiths. -- The quality of commitment \/ W. Ian Thomas. -- The making of a man of God \/ Alan Redpath. -- Made for ministry \/ Charles F. Stanley. -- A strength in difficulty \/ James M. Latimer. -- The New Testament and revival \/ Ted S. Rendall.\n\nPublished in: Nashville, Tenn.\n\nPhysical description: 189 pages : portrait ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A reformed, evangelical, Catholic theology : the contribution of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1875-1982 \/ Alan P.F. Sell.","author":"Sell, Alan P. F.","isbn":"0802804837","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"WMB EERDMNS"},"datePublished":"1991","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction : the Reformed Alliance and its theological work. What is the Alliance? ; Major theological themes, 1875-1982 ; The nature and status of the Alliance's theological work -- The faith of the ages. The doctrine of God ; The work and person of Christ ; The doctrine of humanity ; The Holy Spirit ; Eschatology and Trinity -- The Evangelical-Catholic heritage. Traditional reformed emphases ; The Bible and its authority ; A confession for the Alliance? ; Creeds and confessions in the Presbyterian Alliance ; Creeds and confessions in the Congregational Council ; Presbyterian polity ; Congregational polity ; Mutual assessments ; Catholicity -- The ecumenical vision. Ecumenical words and deeds ; The bilateral dialogues ; God's reign and our unity ; Baptists and Reformed in dialogue ; The sacraments in Alliance literature ; Baptism ; The Lord's Supper ; The ministry : Reformed and other views ; The ministry in Alliance literature -- The philosophical-apologetic climate. The early years ; The middle years ; The flight from philosophical-apologetic questions ; Gospel universals? -- The ethical witness. Ethical concerns of the early years ; Perennial ethical concerns ; Ethical concerns since 1933 ; Underlying principles ; Collective responsibility ; Common ground and natural law ; Ethics : Catholic, Evangelical, and Reformed -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. Alliance Councils ; Biographical notes ; Bibliography.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: xi, 304 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"A retreat with Job and Julian of Norwich : trusting that all will be well \/ Carol Luebering.","author":"Luebering, Carol.","isbn":"0867162279","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"St. Anthony Messenger Press"},"datePublished":"1995","inLanguage":"English","description":"Naming the pain -- Searching for reasons -- Searching for God -- Embracing brokenness -- Seeking support -- Learning compassion -- Walking in trust.\n\nPublished in: Cincinnati : St.\n\nPhysical description: 137 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}