Who Moved My Church?
Responding to the Changing Ethnic Landscape
by Oliver R. Phillips, Mission Strategy Director
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Starting Strong Churches in the Black Community
by Oliver R. Phillips, Black Ministries Mission Director
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There's More than One Color in the Pew
A Handbook for Multicultural, Multiracial Churches
by Dr. Tony Mathews
Churches get ready! People from different cultures and races are not only moving to the same neighborhoods, they are also attending the same local churches. The need for pastors to be able to lead diverse congregations is growing.
Power in the Pulpit: How Americas Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons
Scholar and preacher Cleophus J. LaRue brings together the voices of twelve of America’s most influential African-American preachers. Each of these renowned preachers describes his or her method of sermon preparation and includes a sample sermon for illustration.
The Pulpit Power of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., was many things--teacher, mediator, architect of social change--but more than anything else he was a preacher, and Mervyn Warren is right to remind us of this. King stood in a long line of preachers, from the Hebrew prophets to the preachers of the black tradition, and it was his giftedness in the pulpit, more than any other single factor, that insures his place in history.
Called to Love and Serve Humanity: A Vision Unfulfilled
by Judge Wavny Toussaint, Presented at the Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO. January 18, 2005
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A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King, Peter Holloran (Editor), Clayborne Carson (Editor), January 2000.
Church Planting in the African-American Context.
by Hozell C. Francis, July 1999.
Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979.
by Bettye Collier-Thomas (editor), September 1997.
Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform.
by Andrew Billingsley, June 1999.
This long-awaited volume is really two books in one. The first traces the history of Black Church social involvement, beginning with the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest Black congregation in the nation. The second part presents and interprets data on the contemporary forms of community action and reform. Housing and economic development ministries figure prominently in the findings. Around 1,000 congregations were surveyed, initially in the Northeast and North Central areas and later in Atlanta, Denver and South Carolina. Contains helpful charts, graphs and tables. Billingsley's work continues and in some degree updates that of Lincoln and Mamiya in The Black Church in the African American Experience
Our Racist Legacy: Will the Church Resolve the Conflict?
(Church and World Series, Vol 9)
by Ivan A. Beals, September 1997.
Review by Stan Ingersol, denominational archivist, Church of the Nazarene |