Preaching Through a Storm: Confirming the Power of Preaching in the Tempest of Church Conflict

by H. Beecher Hicks Jr.

Book Overview

The context was a building program for an urban congregation. The beginning bore no omens of controversy. But before long, both the pastor (the author) and the congregation found themselves in a storm that threatened the church's very existence and the pastor's future in ministry. It is common in this kind of storm that neither the preacher nor his flock will expect to hear from God. But the arresting message of this book is that it is often through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310200911
• ISBN13: 9780310200918
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Renewed Hope and Strength through the Storms...

This ministers help book is DEEP and reaches to the very root of ministry...the part your average preacher refuses to touch. There is comfort in knowing that even though storms are sure to come in all of our lives ...there is a Blessing in them also. The candor of this writing equates to what I believe Raw God is like!I have read this book in its entirety many times! It continues to refresh me and my ministry each time.

An Excellent book on Black Pastoring in America

I had an opportunity to hear a sermon from Dr. Hicks as he was the featured pastor at a conference in Winston-Salem, NC. It is there that my wife purchased this book for me.This book is very informative and very provactive in the way Dr. Hicks presents his personal vantage point upon the ever present and on going storms in the church (especially the African American church).He presents a litany of sermons that he has composed over the course of tumultous times during the construction of a new edifice, for a church that he has recently been called to pastor.The sermons are prefaced by a prologue that gives a scenario of why this sermon, and follows with an epilogue of how the sermon was effective.You will be moved to tears with some of the dialogue Dr. Hicks presents and you will be very enlightened with his biblical interpretations and prayers.If you love good preaching and teaching buy this book!