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  • Becoming Human

    The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race

    by Luke A. Powery ...
    Discussions of racial difference always embody a story. The dominant story told in our society about race has many components, but two stand out: (1) racial difference is an essential characteristic, fully determining individual and group identity; and (2) racial difference means that some bodies are less human than others.The church knows another story, says Luke Powery, if it would remember it. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Were You There?

    Lenten Reflections on the Spirituals

    by Luke A. Powery ...
    Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals provide profound insights into the human condition and Christian life. Many spirituals focus on the climax of the Christian drama, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the ways in which those events bring about the liberation of Gods people.In these devotions for the season of Lent, Luke A. Powery ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship

    Year A, Volume 3, Season After Pentecost

    Edited by Joel B. Green, Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, Cynthia L. Rigby, Carolyn J. Sharp ...
    Series series Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship
    Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary.This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading in the three-year lectionary cycle by viewing that reading through the lens of its connections to the rest of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Spirit Speech

    Lament and Celebration in Preaching

    by Luke A. Powery ...
    That the Holy Spirit is present in preaching is something we take for granted. How the Spirit is present is a question we seldom ask. Luke Powery suggests that we fail to ask that question to the detriment of our preaching. Drawing on the tradition of African American preaching, he locates the Spirit’s activity in the sermon in two primary places; First, in celebration, the joyous acceptance of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Rise Up, Shepherd!

    Advent Reflections on the Spirituals

    by Luke A. Powery, Luke A. Powery ...
    Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals give us profound insights into the human condition and the Christian life. Many focus on an essential scene of the Christian drama: the coming of God as the child in Bethlehem and as the hope of the world and the liberator of God's oppressed people.In these devotions for the season of Advent, Luke Powery leads ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Living the Questions of the Bible

    by Luke A. Powery ...
    Series series Worship and Witness
    Living the Questions of the Bible presents questioning as a viable and faithful Christian practice. We may think the Bible is only about getting answers, but the Bible is also a question book, revealing how the life of faith is a quest with and for God. By exploring various passages in the Bible, this book attempts to invite readers into an interrogative spirituality, one in which we learn that ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship

    Year A, Volume 2, Lent through Pentecost

    Edited by Joel B. Green, Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, Luke Powery, Cynthia L. Rigby, Carolyn J. Sharp ...
    Series series Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship
    Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary.For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual lection reading with Scripture as a whole as well as to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Connections: Year B, Volume 1

    Advent through Epiphany

    Edited by Joel B. Green, Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, Cynthia L. Rigby, Carolyn J. Sharp ...
    Series series Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship
    Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading through the lens of its connections to the rest of Scripture and then seeing the reading through the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Connections: Year A, Three-Volume Set

    A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship

    Edited by Joel B. Green, Luke A. Powery, Cynthia L. Rigby, Carolyn J. Sharp, Thomas G. Long ...
    Series series Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship
    Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary.This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading in the three-year lectionary cycle by viewing that reading through the lens of its connections to the rest of ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship

    Year A, Volume 1, Advent through Epiphany

    Edited by Joel B. Green, Thomas G. Long, Luke A. Powery, Cynthia L. Rigby, Carolyn J. Sharp ...
    Series series Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship
    Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary.This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading in the three-year lectionary cycle by viewing that reading through the lens of its connections to the rest of ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Ways of the Word

    Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place

    Edited by Luke A. Powery ...
    Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose contours are far from clear. The questions are immense: How to support preachers in contexts that are ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Overshadowed Preacher

    Mary, the Spirit, and the Labor of Proclamation

    by Jerusha Matsen Neal ...
    The Overshadowed Preacher breaks open one of the most important, unexamined affirmations of preaching: the presence of the living Christ in the sermon.Jerusha Matsen Neal argues that Mary's conceiving, bearing, and naming of Jesus in Luke's nativity account is a potent description of this mystery. Mary's example calls preachers to leave behind the false shadows haunting Christian pulpits and be ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus