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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Advent and Christmas | |
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| The Challenge of Advent | |
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| In the Darkness, a Voice, a Light | |
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| Christmas in the Empire | |
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| Christmas Meditation | |
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| To Easter | |
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| No More of This! A Meditation for Holy Week | |
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| The Violent Bear It Away | |
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| While It Was Still Dark | |
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| He Came Back…to Us! | |
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| The Last to Believe in Easter | |
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| Iterations of Resurrection | |
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| The God Who Refused to Be Done with Us | |
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| Thinking Resurrection | |
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| Christ Got Up | |
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| The Practical, Organizational Relevance of Resurrection | |
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| The Work of the Church | |
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| Effective Congregations | |
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| Being Honest about Churches | |
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| What's the Point of Worship? | |
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| Who But the Church Will Tell Such a Truth? | |
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| Courageous Discipleship | |
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| My Name Is Will, and I Am Addicted | |
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| Keeping Work in Its Place | |
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| Traveling Light | |
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| A Way When There Is No Way | |
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| Theological Politics | |
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| Mixing Religion and Politics | |
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| Thinking Like a Christian | |
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| Thinking Like a Christian 2 | |
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| Jesus the Immigrant | |
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| Patriotic Thoughts | |
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| A Prayer for George Alexander, Jr | |
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| Women and Ministry | |
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| Divine Wisdom among �Little Old Ladies� | |
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| The Reverend Grandma | |
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| A Faith That Is Based on the Testimony of Women | |
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| Evangelism, Consumerism, and the Emerging Generation | |
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| Evangelism as the Invitation to Be Different | |
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| Church of the Second Chance | |
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| The Church and the Conversion of Emerging Adults | |
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| Resisting the Clutches of Consumerism | |
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| Reaching Young Adults | |
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| Provoking Change | |
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| Christ Means Change: Further Thoughts on Ministry of Conversion | |
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| New Creation | |
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| Conversion as Justification and Sanctification | |
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| Neoteny | |
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| Leading Change in the Church | |
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| Beyond the Boundaries | |
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| The Problem of Sin | |
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| Sin | |
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| Sin in Christian Ministry | |
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| Despair as Sin | |
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| Sinners | |
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| Adventures in Pastoral Ministry | |
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| Be Where You Are, or Learning to Love the Local | |
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| Continuing the Journey | |
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| Ministry to Those Not in Crisis | |
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| The Point of Pastoral Ministry: Lay Ministry | |
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| Ordination and New Clergy | |
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| Advice for New Pastors | |
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| Advice for New Pastors 2 | |
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| Gatekeepers into the Pastoral Ministry | |
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| Gatekeepers into the Pastoral Ministry 2 | |
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| God Send Us Preachers | |
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| Ministerial Character | |
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| Weak Clergy, Watered-Down Christianity | |
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| Sowing and Harvesting in Ministry: The Case of Moses | |
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| Pastoral Humor as a Resource for Constancy in Ministry | |
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| Pastoral Wisdom | |
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| The Craft of Preaching | |
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| Matthew's Meaning | |
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| Preaching: Character and Credibility | |
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| For God's Sake Say It | |
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| On Not Reaching Our Culture through Our Preaching | |
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| Apocalyptic Riff | |
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| To: The Church Called Mainline | |