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Tag: Practical

Review: Dangerous Calling

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Oct 7, 2015Shepherd's Study0

This book seeks to reveal the truth that the culture surrounding pastors is often times spiritually unhealthy, that is, an environment that actively undermines the well-being and efficacy of church leaders and thus an entire ...

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Review: A Place for Weakness

by: admin Mar 13, 2015Shepherd's Study0

  A Place for Weakness is a book all about being prepared for suffering. In fact, the subtitle to the book Preparing Yourself for Suffering seems to be a more appropriate title. The idea for ...

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Review: Christ-Centered Preaching

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Feb 11, 2015Shepherd's Study0

As the title indicates, the author is concerned with centering preaching in Christ.  In the foreword to the second edition, he makes a two-part clarification on “Christ-centered”: first as “standing for...God’s redemptive work, which finds ...

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Review: Dying to Live

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Sep 18, 2014Shepherd's Study0

With a pile of “must-reads” littering my study and another pile on my nightstand, very few books make it to my “read it again and again and again” pile.  Dying to Live: The Power of ...

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Review: Deeper Places

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Aug 11, 2014Shepherd's Study0

Content of Deeper Places Premise In Jacoby's introduction, he writes: ...most people struggle to attain anything more than a remote and abstract idea about God...It is little wonder, then, that we have no emotional connection ...

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Review: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jun 17, 2014Shepherd's Study0

The subtitle of this engaging read is “A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”.  Titles like that tend to upset the reader’s equilibrium.  One never knows what to expect when he hears the word “radical”.  ...

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Review: Christ Have Mercy

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu May 20, 2014Shepherd's Study0

I: Content The subtitle to this pleasant little book is How to Put Your Faith into Action.  Under the theme of the Kyrie, Harrison takes us along on a tour of different situations and mission ...

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Review: Letters from a Counselor

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu May 5, 2014Shepherd's Study0

Letters from a Counselor was written to encourage pastors in mission congregations during the busy, stressful times of Advent and Holy Week. Wayne Schulz's encouragement to his missionaries to witness for Jesus is relevant for ...

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Review: How to Preach a Parable

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jan 27, 2014Shepherd's Study0

How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermons is a title pregnant with meaning.  The title seems to suggest that this book is a how-to-preach-on-parables manual of sorts.  However, the book’s title is hinting ...

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Review: Gospel Sermons

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jan 7, 2014Shepherd's Study0

Gospel Sermons: Volume I, by C.F.W. Walther. Translated by Donald E. Heck. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 306 pages. C.F.W. Walther (1811-87) has long been regarded as the “American Luther” due to the important ...

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