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Through the many years that McGriff served St. Luke's, his messages addressed people's everyday lives and never failed to touch their hearts in a meaningful way. Perhaps that is why this church experienced such growth in membership during his tenure.Indianapolis Business JournalHow does he deliver, week after week, an interesting, appropriate message and never use notes? "I speak in stories, " McGriff said in an interview.St. Luke's United Met...

Here is a creative approach to Bible study that will spark discussion. McGriff tackles such issues as divorce, homosexuality, the divinity of Jesus, and miracles. This book will be of interest to church groups as well as to individuals wrestling with their personal faith.Though he sometimes takes controversial positions, McGriff always delivers fascinating and challenging reflections. He reconsiders traditional interpretations of Jesus' words,...

McGriff provides some of the most timely and thought-provoking research on the lectionary texts ever made available.Included for each Sunday in the lectionary are:• A listing of the Revised Common, Roman Catholic, and Episcopal lectionary texts.• A description of the Psalm of the day.• A prayer for the day.• Commentary that is more than academic exegesis -- McGriff brings to the forefront those points in the text that relate most poignantly to...

With these introductory words, E. Carver McGriff sets forth to provide some of the most timely and thought-provoking research on the lectionary texts ever made available.Included for each Sunday in the lectionary are:• A listing of the applicable Revised Common, Roman Catholic, and Episcopal lectionary texts.• Commentary that is more than academic exegesis -- McGriff brings to the forefront those points in the text that relate most poignantly ...

Preachers must understand the teaching techniques of parable and hyperbole, not to mention having a good background in systematic theology, in order to understand what the Bible's writers really meant.... But our responsibility is also to reduce the complexities of Bible study to such simplicities that our many listeners, ranging from busy young professional people to aging men and women of failing health to youngsters facing a variety of new ...

We should have begun to face the sobering probability that we were heading for the hell of battle, but we were kids. We'd heard of war in far-off places, places like Italy and Africa, and the faraway Pacific, but we were in England. We thought life would go on like this with excitement, new places to see, friends we'd never otherwise have met, a sense of manhood new to most of us . . . how little we knew. Barely more than children, soon to suf...

What can sustain a church's growth over a lengthy period of time, especially across a change in senior pastors? Long, successful pastrotes are customarily followed by brief, unhappy ones, and then by a period of stagnation and even decline. Carver McGriff and Kent Millard, successive pastors of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Indianapolis, demonstrate how a theologically and socially progressive church can be faithful to its particular c...