Author: Francis Springer William Furry
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610753241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: William J. Bausch
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9780896229198
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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"...an indispensible resource for homilists"-- Cover back.

Author: Ben C. Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469636627
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Highlander. English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish immigrants to the Appalachian region of North Carolina brought with them a rugged individualism and a sense of humor and dignity which have been characteristic of the sturdy yeoman farmer. Most mountain preachers and many of the old time mountaineers had a real talent for telling stories. While the "tall tale" is a staple of mountain storytelling, more often the tales relate to something that happened, not something just dreamed up. Mountain humor, like all folk humor, typically arises out of a life situation. Fisher's work, edited by his wife Sally following his passing, relates many of the stories and tales that he had heard over the course of his life.

Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441235884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Throughout the history of English literature, church ministers have figured prominently in novels, plays, morality tales, and even poetry. Pastors in the Classics is a unique, unprecedented collection of relevant literary masterpieces in which the pastor's experience is a major part of the story. Part 1 is a reader's guide to twelve important classics written over four centuries and covering seven different nationalities. Each chapter not only describes and interprets the work in question, it also highlights a specific feature of pastoral ministry explored in the work. Part 2 is a handbook that defines the canon of literary masterpieces that deal with the pastor's experience, offering reading suggestions for both ministers and lovers of literature. From the familiar (The Canterbury Tales; Cry, the Beloved Country; and The Scarlet Letter) to the lesser-known (Silence, Witch Wood) to the surprising (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), this collection uncovers the good, the bad, and the ugly ways in which pastors have been presented to the reading public for the past half millennium.

Author: Rosie Harper Austin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665539984
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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Entitled-felt Panther makes his home on Grandpa’s farm and intrude in the lives of Grandpa and his grandson, Monty. After committing a series of wicked acts against Monty, Panther finds himself in a life-threating situation until he is rescued by Grandpa and Monty. No longer feeling entitled, Panther is grateful to have them in his life. The Preacher’s Tales describes the storytelling experience through the eyes of eight-year-old Monty. A touching story, the book will keep young readers and adults alike entertained to the end. The generosity of a grandfather and grandson transforms crafty Panther into a caring friend.

Author: William Furry
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226209X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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In the fall of 1861, fifty-one-year-old Rev. Francis Springer enlisted in the Union army. The following spring, Springer, a friend and one-time neighbor to Abraham Lincoln, rode away with the 10th Illinois Cavalry. A witness to the Battle of Prairie Grove (December 1862), Springer was later named post chaplain at Fort Smith, where, in additon to preaching and ministering to the troops, he was placed in charge of refugees—widows, orphans, and contrabands—the displaced victims of virulent guerrilla warfare in Northwest Arkansas. Springer also wrote articles and columns in the Fort Smith New Era under the pseudonym, “Thrifton.” Springer’s honest appraisals of life in the Army of the Frontier make for fascinating reading, and his unique perspective as moralist, educator, and journalist provide new insight into the Civil War and how it was fought in the West. The book includes several never-before published photographs and appendixes which feature accounts of six military executions that Springer participated in as a Union Army chaplain, the hitherto unpublished last letters home of two rebel soldiers condemned and executed at Fort Smith, as well as a eulogy for Abraham Lincoln. The Preacher’s Tale includes several never before published photographs, and appendixes that contain accounts of six military executions that Springer participated in as a Union Army chaplain, the last letters home of two rebel soldiers condemned and executed at Fort Smith, as well as a eulogy written for Abraham Lincoln.

Author: Tim Chester
Publisher: Good Book Company
ISBN: 9781909559202
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Becoming the preacher God wants you to be.

Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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"The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country" by Ernest Thompson Seton is a western set in the west corner of South Dakota. Written with surprising sensitivity to women's rights and religious differences, the book has the romance of the open west and the adventure of the lawlessness of the budding territory. Based on true events, the book is a unique look at one of the most nostalgic periods of American history.

Author: Henry A. Buchanan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1463414501
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A Preachers Tales is a book about preachers who are unusual, sometimes eccentric people. Buchanan is one of them. In fact, a little bit of him is to be found in many, if not most of them. Buchanan is tolerant of all of them, and a few of them he even loves, or likes because they are so much like him. The prime redeeming feature in all of them is humor. Some of the things the preachers do and say are downright funny, but mostly the humor is subtle and only crops up after the reader has read and thought and reflected on what happened and what was told. Its not all humorous. Preaching is a serious business. The Preacher deals with a profound issue. He is holding Gods Hand with one hand and a mans hand with the other. What the preacher says and does may determine the course of human events because in some measure it reflects or communicates the mind and the saving grace of God. Behold here the Preacher Man at work and at play.

Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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