Jana Childers

Buried Dreamer

Fiction

“Whether you come for the story and stay for the inspiration or vice-versa, you will be glad you picked up this book! Engaging characters and a suspenseful plot carry the reader across centuries and oceans, and before you know it, you catch yourself thinking a bit. About war and violence. About friendship. And especially about hope. This is a book that encourages and uplifts while challenging the mind even as it satisfies the heart.”

Cries of Earth and Altar

Arts & Literature

“Charles Bartow is a broad-shouldered poet whose words not only fly up but sink down in. He is concerned with the stuff and range of real life. Snaking rhythms move the manly words and lacy images. Air-filled but not airy, polished but not varnished, this is poetry you can take to the pulpit or the hospital as easily as the park bench. Whether it is grief or hunger that drives you to the poetry shelf, you will find an answering voice here.”

Distance in Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“Michael Brothers sheds startling new light on the performance aspects of preaching. He not only maps critical concepts and skills but raises important questions about how the preacher's integrity and spirituality are brought to bear in the act of preaching. Preachers and teachers of preachers have been waiting for this book.”

Preaching Creation

Preaching & Worship

“[T]his book . . . changed my thinking about what the Bible says and left me with both help to preach on the subject and the passionate desire to do so! This is a powerful book, the kind that drags you through your resistance and persuades you to enjoy the trip. . . . John Holbert offers fresh exegetical insights, compelling arguments, and examples of the kind of sermons that prime a preacher's pump. But you will come away from this book with more than good compasses and maps, this is a book filled with hope.”

Women's Voices and the Practice of Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“This is a stunning book by one of the finest teachers of our generation of preachers. In a voice both clear and compassionate Nancy Lammers Gross says what most needs to be said about and for women preachers. The effect is stunning. Stunningly helpful. Stunningly powerful. Even stunningly beautiful. . . . While women readers will feel deeply understood, all preachers will be helped by this important volume’s insights into preaching and women’s experience.”