Luke A Powery: 3 books
Spirit Speech
Lament and Celebration in Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
That the Holy Spirit is present in preaching is something we take for granted. How the Spirit is present is a question we seldom ask. Luke Powery suggests that we fail to ask that question to the detriment of our preaching. Drawing on the tradition of African American preaching, he locates the Spirit’s...
Dem Dry Bones
Preaching, Death, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for...
Ways of the Word
Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose...