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The Ministry of the Word & Hints and Helps in Pastoral Theology

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The Ministry of the Word – William M. Taylor

In his address to the theological students at Yale, William Taylor pressed the truth of the laborious nature of the ministry. This book has rendered a great service to our generation of pastors and churches by making this volume available again.

Table of Contents:

1. The Nature and Design of the Christian Ministry

2. The Preparation of the Preacher

3. The Preparation of the Preacher

4. The Theme and Range of the Pulpit

5. The Qualities of Effective Preaching – In the Sermon

6. The Qualities of Effective Preaching – In the Sermon

7. Expository Preaching

8. On the Use of Illustrations in Preaching

9. The Conduct of Public Worship – Reading of the Scripture

10. The Conduct of Public Worship – Praise and Prayer

11. The Pastorate and Pastoral Visitation

12. The Relation of the Pulpit to Present Questions

Hints and Helps in Pastoral Theology – William S. Plumer

The republication of this book at this time is, indeed, a good providence of God. The author was William Plumer (1802-80). Plumer was a theologian of great intellect and spirituality. He was a pastor and churchman of considerable note who lived through societal changes produced by bitter wrangling over political ideology, a bloody war, and substantial cultural conflicts. You will be impressed upon reading this volume. You will be impressed by a man who took Gods Word seriously and applied it diligently to the ministry of the Church.

Table of Contents:

1. Sources of Information in Pastoral Theology

2. The Importance of the Ministry

3. A Call to the Ministry

4. The Character of a True Minister

5. Benefits of Genuine Piety

6. Other Good Fruits of Piety

7. Ministerial Education

8. A Minister’s Studies

9. The Right Temper for a Theologian

10. A Minister’s Difficulties

11. Various Suggestions

12. Public Worship – Reading, Singing, Praying

13. Public Worship – Who Shall Attend?

14 The Matter of Preaching

15. The Manner of Preaching

16. Manner of Preaching – Continued

17. Earnest Preaching

18. Popular Preaching

19. Mooted Points About Preaching

20. The Use of Proverbs

21. Religious Excitements

22. Means of Promoting Revivals

23. Pastoral Visiting

24. Visiting the Sick

25. Care of the Poor

26. Sabbath-Schools

27. Doing Good with the Pen

28. Should I Becomes a foreign Missionary?

29. The Duty of Americans

30. The Relations of America o Other Lands

31. The Sure Success of Evangelization

32. Sayings for Ministers