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Fully Alive Preacher Recovering from Homiletical Burnout

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ISBN-10: 0664230202

ISBN-13: 9780664230203

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mike Graves, Barbara Brown Taylor

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Mike Graves begins this book with the question ?If preaching is intended to enliven the church, why is it killing so many ministers?? His answer? Because it has become divorced from the vitality and diversity of the preacher's daily life. He invites preachers to discover how preaching can be renewing rather than draining. Graves includes four valuable sections on sermon preparation but also provides brief lessons, exercises, questions for reflection, and invitations to do such things as walk, read, and nap. In the end, the cure for homiletical burnout is life itself, especially the ordinary pleasures often ignored or pushed aside by the complicated job of ministry. This is a perfect book…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 7/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

An invitation to the reader
Creating and re-creating
Stage one : studying the scriptures
Stage two : brainstorming stories
Stage three : creating a sequence
Stage four : embodying the sermon
Preaching with joy