Thomas G. Long
Biography
Thomas G. Long has served as Francis Landey Patton Professor of Preaching and Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. Long wrote What Shall We Say? (2014) and wrote the forewords to The Pastor's Bookshelf (2022) and What's Right with Preaching Today? (2021).
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Shaping the Prayers of the People
Preaching & Worship
“At a time when much prayer in worship is actually something less than prayer - an elongation of the sermon, an 'infomercial' for God, or even the parish announcements spoken in hushed tones - Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher have given us this fine book on public prayer that is really prayer. They teach us how to fashion intercessions that are faithful, careful, creative, and beautiful. Every worship leader needs to read this volume.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“As we have come to expect from Gilbert Meilaender, this is an intellectually rigorous and probing exploration of an urgent ethical issue. And as we have also come to expect, it is finally an eloquent and wise theological witness. Meilaender calls us to leave behind the futile search for meaning merely in an ever-extended human life span and urges us instead to see life as a journey shaped in freedom by God, who crafts for us a hopeful ending that we cannot always see but can always believe and trust.”
Preaching & Worship
“As those who preach, telling the stories of and about the storytelling savior, it is a joy to be able to turn for encouragement from a master storyteller himself. Stephen Farris not only reminds us how central these stories are to our life of faith and worship, but he also offers us wisdom and help to grow as storytellers ourselves. Warning: it is the rare homiletics resource that elicits both laughter and tears.” —Lucy Lind Hogan, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC “Stephen Farris has long been not only one of the most knowledgeable teachers of story preaching, but also one of its ablest practitioners. Now he brings a lifetime of learning and experience to this volume, which is full to the brim with insight and sound advice. Read it for the wisdom in these pages, but read it also for the delightful stories!”
Preaching & Worship
“Austin Carty has written an amazing book—eminently readable, fascinating, homiletically helpful, emotionally powerful, sometimes sad and draining. One could hardly find a more honest presentation about the extent to which our sermons emerge from the tragic, grace-filled fabric of the preacher’s own life. Read this book and savor it.”
Preaching & Worship
“Camery-Hoggatt understands the complex interaction between readers and biblical texts, and he has accomplished an astounding feat for biblical preachers. He has taken apart the "Swiss watch" of biblical interpretation, showing all the gears, levers, and flywheels and patiently explaining how each one operates. Then, even more amazingly, he has put the whole thing back together again and made it work, producing fascinating examples of the text-to-sermon process.”
Preaching & Worship
“Jacob Myers is one of our most creative and profound commentators on preaching today, and this book does not disappoint. He provides a close reading of several major stand-up comedians—some of them edgy and controversial, all of them wickedly funny —and then manages to draw insights from each of them to sharpen the ways preachers can be faithful to the edgy and often controversial gospel. A smart and thought-provoking book!”
Preaching & Worship
“Even though Good Friday and Easter are among Christianity's holiest days, many preachers secretly approach them with dread. They can seem like rooms in an old, darkened house filled with the faith's most vexing problems and controversies: debates over atonement theories, dignity-denying views of sacrifice, misunderstandings of bodily resurrection, and more. In this fine book, Joni Sancken pulls back the drapes and opens up all the windows, filling the house with light and air. She faces all of the challenges of preaching on the cross and resurrection of Jesus with generosity, theological wisdom, and practical insight. Preachers who read this book will not only be informed; they will find themselves renewed and eager to proclaim the Good Friday/Easter gospel.”
Theology
“For many Christians, the great vocabulary words of the church have too often been like great-grandmother’s silver—tucked away in the attic, tarnished and forgotten, relics of another day. In this wonderfully written book, Marva Dawn recovers these neglected treasures, polishes these old words until they gleam, and returns them to us ready to use in the life of faith. Read this book with gratitude and joy.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This is a book to refresh the spirit of every pressured pastor. . . . Thomas Swears maps the territory of spiritual formation for the very persons who may well need it the most—ministers. In this discerning book, Swears journeys not only to the familiar regions of spiritual awareness, such as prayer and Scripture, but he also travels to seemingly mundane places, like church administration, and finds there sources of renewal.”
Preaching & Worship
“A marvelous collection of essays. Richard Lischer has assembled a roomful of sparkling intellects for a cracking good conversation about preaching. He gathers thinkers from across the ages and around the world and invites them to share their wisdom on every major preaching theme. The result is a dialogue that bristles with energy, refreshes our memories, stretches our minds, and whets our appetites for more.”
Christian Living
“Quicksilver smart, deeply honest, and blessed with a gift for language, Root invites us all into a deeper exploration of our faith.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“In this most creative book, Carolyn B. Helsel and Song-Mi Suzie Park have taken an unorthodox stroll through the book of Genesis. Where others find the creation story, Noah’s Ark, and the Tower of Babel, Helsel and Park find families—wonderful, human, complicated families…. The authors provide insight into the frayed edges of our family life, but because the authors also find God in the broken places, they bring us profound hope.”
The Future Shape of Christian Proclamation
Preaching & Worship
“North American homiletics finds itself fragmented and losing energy. But in the Global South, the wind of the Spirit is blowing, giving vitality to the church and boldness to preaching. LaRue and Nascimento have brought the wisest homiletical voices from the Global South into the banquet hall, and the conversation just got much livelier. Fifty years ago, we couldn’t have imagined a book like this. Now we can’t imagine homiletics without it.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this splendid scholarly commentary on Mark’s Gospel, Allen has given preachers two fine gifts. He provides provocative, homiletically stimulating comments on every passage in Mark, and he shows the literary and theological connections throughout that show how this Gospel works together as a whole. Any preacher who reads this book will be invigorated with renewed excitement to preach the great ‘parable’ that is the Gospel of Mark.”
The Gospel People Don't Want to Hear
Preaching & Worship
“In a time of division and heightened rhetoric, the task of preaching can seem perilous, especially preaching on sensitive and challenging issues. Lisa Cressman does not shrink from the task. She creatively describes a way of preaching that is prophetically faithful and an act of deep pastoral care.”
Preaching & Worship
“In this creative and provocative book Adam Hearlson invites us to consider how faithful worship is also subversive worship, saying ‘yes’ to God’s coming reign by saying ‘no’ to all that stands in the way. Voices as diverse as Olivier Messiaen, Dorothee Sölle, Nick Hornby, Abraham Heschel, Michel de Certeau, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Ellison, and ‘Red’ in The Shawshank Redemption reverberate off the walls of this volume, making this an exciting and stimulating reading experience.”
Preaching & Worship
Foreword
“One of the virtues of this new volume in homiletics is that William Brosend has the wisdom to take a deep breath, to step back from the homiletical fray, and to ponder what constitutes the central core of preaching. He does so by posing what he calls “the homiletical question,” a powerful query that animates the entirety of this text: What does the Holy Spirit want the people of God to hear from these texts on this occasion? This question brings much clarity to the discussion, operating like a magnet, pulling all the disparate iron filings of the preaching event into true alignment.”
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