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| cogic preaching 2014: Flaming? Alisha Lola Jones, 2020-06-09 Male-centered theology, a dearth of men in the pews, and an overrepresentation of queer males in music ministry: these elements coexist within the spaces of historically black Protestant churches, creating an atmosphere where simultaneous heteropatriarchy and real masculinity anxieties, archetypes of the alpha-male preacher, the effeminate choir director and homo-antagonism, are all in play. The flamboyant male vocalists formed in the black Pentecostal music ministry tradition, through their vocal styles, gestures, and attire in church services, display a spectrum of gender performances - from hyper-masculine to feminine masculine - to their fellow worshippers, subtly protesting and critiquing the otherwise heteronormative theology in which the service is entrenched. And while the performativity of these men is characterized by cynics as flaming, a similar musicalized fire - that of the Holy Spirit - moves through the bodies of Pentecostal worshippers, endowing them religio-culturally, physically, and spiritually like fire shut up in their bones. Using the lenses of ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, men's studies, queer studies, and theology, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theo-Politics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance observes how male vocalists traverse their tightly-knit social networks and negotiate their identities through and beyond the worship experience. Author Alisha Jones ultimately addresses the ways in which gospel music and performance can afford African American men not only greater visibility, but also an affirmation of their fitness to minister through speech and song. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Preaching on Wax Lerone A Martin, 2014-11-14 The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Columbia, Paramount, Victor-RCA to record and sell their sermons on wax. While white clerics of the era, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Fuller, became religious entrepreneurs and celebrities through their pioneering use of radio, black clergy were largely marginalized from radio. Instead, they relied on other means to get their message out, teaming up with corporate titans of the phonograph industry to package and distribute their old-time gospel messages across the country. Their nationally marketed folk sermons received an enthusiastic welcome by consumers, at times even outselling top billing jazz and blues artists such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. These phonograph preachers significantly shaped the development of black religion during the interwar period, playing a crucial role in establishing the contemporary religious practices of commodification, broadcasting, and celebrity. Yet, the fame and reach of these nationwide media ministries came at a price, as phonograph preachers became subject to the principles of corporate America. In Preaching on Wax, Lerone A. Martin offers the first full-length account of the oft-overlooked religious history of the phonograph industry. He explains why a critical mass of African American ministers teamed up with the major phonograph labels of the day, how and why black consumers eagerly purchased their religious records, and how this phonograph religion significantly contributed to the shaping of modern African American Christianity. Instructor's Guide |
| cogic preaching 2014: Preaching Killer Sermons Lane Sebring, 2016-04-19 Lane provides practical tools to help pastors deliver engaging messages. Anyone who preaches or teaches will benefit from this book. -Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling Author of The Circle Maker, Lead Pastor of National Community Church. Today's audiences are more distracted than ever, but sermons can only be effective if people are listening. You have to capture people's attention. But how? In Preaching Killer Sermons, author and pastor Lane Sebring reveals practical preparation and delivery techniques that will enable you to better connect with your listeners. Discover how to: -Capture and maintain the interest of your listeners -Structure each sermon for the greatest impact -Maximize your prep time on a tight schedule -Overcome distractions & communicate with clarity -Inspire people toward life-change If you want to discover practical methods to communicate clearly every time you preach, this book is for you. What church leaders are saying about Preaching Killer Sermons: Lane has written a very helpful, practical book for preachers and teach-ers. I think there are two great sins in preaching: misusing the text and boring your audience. In teaching pastors and seminary students, I find there are plenty of resources and attention given to avoid the first great sin. But there is a lack of resources on how not to bore people. And too many preachers feel that if they have rightly divided the Word of Truth, they have done everything God requires them to do. I think accuracy and effectiveness are equally important in preaching. Preaching Killer Sermons is a great resource to help pastors truly be effective in communicating the powerful truth of God's Word. I plan to start using this with the preaching students I teach. -David Whiting, Executive Search Consultant, Vanderbloemen, former Lead Pastor, Northridge Church, Rochester, NY The hardest thing I do each week is not leadership development or pastoral care - it's crafting a message which will communicate truth in an engaging and impactful way. I genuinely want to get better at what I believe is God's greatest call on my life. I'm thankful for Lane's heart to help us be better preachers. I'm thankful for this book. -Ron Edmondson, Senior Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Lexington, KY, Church leadership blogger, RonEdmondson.com Pastor Lane Sebring has done an outstanding job of reverse engineering the great sermon. His efforts will help all who preach to preach better prepared sermons, and become better prepared communicators. Preach-ing Killer Sermons should be included reading in homiletics courses around the world. -Brett Fuller, Senior Pastor, Grace Covenant Church, Chantilly, VA Chaplain, Washington Redskins If you are a communicator in the local church you need to pick up this book. Lane brings practical insights and helpful encouragement on every page. Pick it up ... and apply the lessons contained within. -Rich Birch, unSeminary, Executive Pastor, Liquid Church, Mountainside NJ The concepts Lane shares in this book have helped sharpen my effectiveness in communicating the content of God's inerrant Word! I would highly recommend this book to both the novice and the experienced preacher. -Dr. Billy Ross, Senior Pastor, Centreville Baptist Church, Centreville, VA Trustee, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary I serve on a Teaching Team with Lane, so I watch him live out Preaching Killer Sermons each week. Lane's heart is to communicate God's Word in culturally relevant and engaging ways. Now he's sharing his passion in a book full of practical tools to help preachers (and teachers/speakers). You'll hear his heart as he challenges you to examine and refine your own preaching habits. -Elaine Bonds, sought after speaker, Graduate, Proverbs 31 She Speaks and CLASSeminars |
| cogic preaching 2014: The African Methodist Episcopal Church Dennis C. Dickerson, 2020-01-09 Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity. |
| cogic preaching 2014: The Rise to Respectability Calvin White, 2015-10-01 The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores the ways in which Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal faith that celebrated the charismatic forms of religious expression that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated, and embarrassing. While examining the intersection of race, religion, and class, The Rise to Respectability details how the denomination dealt with the stringent standard of bourgeois behavior imposed on churchgoers as they moved from southern rural areas into the urban centers in both the South and North. Rooted in the hardships of slavery and coming of age during Jim Crow, COGIC’s story is more than a religious debate. Rather, this book sees the history of the church as interwoven with the Great Migration, class tension, racial animosity, and the struggle for modernity—all representative parts of the African American experience. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Preaching Black Lives (Matter) Gayle Fisher-Stewart, 2020-07-17 An anthology that asks, “What does it mean to be church where Black lives matter?” Prophetic imagination would have us see a future in which all Christians would be free of the soul-warping belief and practice of racism. This collection of reflections is an incisive look into that future today. It explains why preaching about race is important in the elimination of racism in the church and society, and how preaching has the ability to transform hearts. While programs, protests, conferences, and laws are all important and necessary, less frequently discussed is the role of the church, specifically the Anglican Church and Episcopal Church, in ending systems of injustice. The ability to preach from the pulpit is mandatory for every person, clergy or lay, regardless of race, who has the responsibility to spread the gospel. For there’s a saying in the Black church, “If it isn’t preached from the pulpit, it isn’t important.” |
| cogic preaching 2014: The Twilight Zone Bishop Lonnie O. Mills, 2015-05-21 This book The Twilight Zone came to me last year as I did some research on life. What? Why? Whats wrong? How come? There is so much crime in the earth and what causes so much killing and kidnapping, drive-bys, hatred, unforgiveness and jealousy among friends, family and strangers. My friends all I have ever wanted is to have fun with my friends, shoot pool, fish, hunt and just enjoy my life in general with my family and friends. Why are so many people different from me? I never wanted to do any of these crimes. All I have is love for all creation and my fellow man. What makes us criminals? What makes someone evil? Well, I think this book will answer most of these questions and give us the answers to solve most of those crimes and help change criminals to good citizens once again. |
| cogic preaching 2014: The Preacher's Wife Kate Bowler, 2019-10 Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket |
| cogic preaching 2014: Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels Bruce J. Malina, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, The authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientific commentaries. This volume is a thoroughly revised edition of this popular commentary. They include an introduction that lays the foundation for their interpretation, followed by an examination of each unit in the Synoptics, employing methodologies of cultural anthropology, macro-sociology, and social psychology. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Bridging the Gap Between the Home, Church, School & Community Bishop Mildred Wells-Dunn, 2014-07-30 You may add to any page or paragraph words, phrases, or sentences that will help you best understand what has been written. Although we might not ever meet, help me with my dream. Help me in “Bridging the Gap Between the Home, School, Church, and Community with Emphasis on Putting Parents Back to Being Parents.” A young lawyer on Beale Street once looked at me and said, “You are sincere about what you are saying and doing. I will not charge you anything.” Boy, was I glad! I had him to look at the script because I had just about gone broke on “Bridging the Gap Between the Home, School, Church, and Community.” There have been others who said to me, “What are you trying to do?” And my reply would be, “I know—it’s just hard for me to make you understand.” Readers, I hope you will understand what I am trying to say and do. Let me make it plain. I am trying to help somebody, hoping I will also receive equally what my readers receive. I am thankful for my family tree, but aren’t we all? I would love for every American family and family of this world to add “Bridging the Gap Between the Home, School, Church, and Community” to their library. I would love to hear from some of the readers to see what they think about it. It has taken a while to complete this work. I feel like there will be more books on this same work. Each of us in our own way can bridge the gap. We do not have to look for any help. Just think of things we can do to help someone. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table James Hudnut-Beumler, 2018-03-19 In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the South’s long-dominant religion. Hudnut-Beumler traveled to both rural and urban communities, listening to the faithful talk about their lives and beliefs. What he heard pushes hard against prevailing notions of southern Christianity as an evangelical Protestant monolith so predominant as to be unremarkable. True, outside of a few spots, no non-Christian group forms more than six-tenths of one percent of a state’s population in what Hudnut-Beumler calls the Now South. Drilling deeper, however, he discovers an unexpected, blossoming diversity in theology, practice, and outlook among southern Christians. He finds, alongside traditional Baptists, black and white, growing numbers of Christians exemplifying changes that no one could have predicted even just forty years ago, from congregations of LGBT-supportive evangelicals and Spanish-language church services to a Christian homeschooling movement so robust in some places that it may rival public education in terms of acceptance. He also finds sharp struggles and political divisions among those trying to reconcile such Christian values as morality and forgiveness—the aftermath of the mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church in 2015 forming just one example. This book makes clear that understanding the twenty-first-century South means recognizing many kinds of southern Christianities. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Pastor Needs a Boo Michele Andrea Bowen, 2014-07-08 Michele Andrea Bowen made a name for herself years ago during the African-American inspirational fiction craze. Now, in Pastor Needs a Boo, she's back with an amazing journey of faith, drama, and love. It was a regular New Jerusalem Gospel United Church work day for Reverend Denzelle Flowers when Veronica Washington, Keisha Jackson, and Marsha Metcalf showed up after losing their jobs on the same day, same morning, and almost at the same time. Denzelle struggled to solve that first problem. The other problem—the lovely Marsha—would be much harder to solve. Denzelle didn't even know how to fight wanting to turn in the playah's card and getting booed up with the poster girl for church girls. Marsha Metcalf and her fellow unemployed church members aren't Denzelle's biggest problem, though. He is running for bishop, and his enemies—a more ruthless consortium of corrupted clergy—want power badly enough to go to rather extreme lengths for it because the stakes are just that high. Now, his ex-wife was back and sleeping with the enemy, digging for dirt. Reverend Denzelle can't fight this battle alone. This pastor needs a ‘boo' who will stand by his side. Before the dust settles, both Marsha and Denzelle's faith and love will be put to the ultimate test. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Bishop C.H. Mason and the Roots of the Church of God in Christ Bishop Ithiel C. Clemmons, Ph.D., 2012-06 The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), the first major denomination to spring from the fires of the Azusa Street revival, profoundly affected the history of the black church. Its tremendous influence can be traced to the dynamic spiritual life of its founder, Charles Harrison Mason. The son of a slave and a leader in the holiness movement of his day, Mason traveled to Azusa Street in 1907 where he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Returning home, he discovered that visions, spontaneous healing and deliverance followed him. A new power accompanied his preaching, and he experienced freedom from former limitations. Mason’s vibrant spiritual life enabled him to lead a fledgling movement from its infancy to a powerful, prophetic community over the next fifty years. Beginning in the rural South in the decades following the Reconstruction Era, the denomination gradually moved into urban areas during the 1900’s. No matter where its ministers, however, the COGIC Church holds in tension the dynamics of holiness, spiritual encounter and prophetic Christian social consciousness. Facing the challenges of our generation, the COGIC Church desires to maintain the legacy of its founder as it prepares for another century of work and witness. Our younger generations need to know the rich legacy bequeathed to them by the pioneers of the Church of God in Christ. Presiding Bishop Chandler D. Owens Every pastor in our denomination and beyond should have a worn and well read copy of this book. Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr. This valuable book should be in the hands of every member of the Church of God in Christ. Bishop C. L. Anderson God gave Bishop C. H. Mason an anointing to preach powerfully, to heal the sick, and to sing out in spontaneous worship. May we covet the same anointing that transformed thousands in his day. Bishop J. Neaul Haynes We are the descendants of a mighty move of God that began at Azusa Street. This book will help us to pass on an equally dynamic spiritual life to our successors, taking the Church of God in Christ into the next century. Bishop P. A. Brooks Church leaders would do well to emulate the dynamic spiritual life of our founder; Bishop C. H. Mason. Bishop O. T. Jones, Jr. Bishop Clemmons reminds us that our denomination was forged in the fires of a pentecostal revival that continues to impact our society today. Bishop Gilbert E. Patterson Our roots establish our legacy and provide the springboard for the future. This documentation is a must for this generation and the generations to come. Mother Emma F. Crouch, Supervisor, Women's Department, Church of God in Christ, President, International Women's Convention This is must reading for every seminary student preparing to minister in the Church of God in Christ. This will be extremely valuable to students of church history regardless of denomination. Dr. H. Vinson Synan, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Divinity, Regent University Finally, a documentary written by a black historian/theologian and a lifelong member of the Church of God in Christ. Bishop Clemmons' perspective is insightful, informative, and refreshing. Dr. William C. Turner, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School, Duke University Allow Bishop C. H. Mason's vision to grip you, to challenge you, and to change you. Raymond C. Pierce, J.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights |
| cogic preaching 2014: Take Your Church's Pulse Tim Koster, John Wagenveld, 2014-10-07 Take Your Church's Pulse presents ten vital signs of a healthy church--five key commitments and five key functions. It then introduce you to a church-health diagnostic tool you can apply to your setting. Thousands of pastors and leaders around the world have found this paradigm helpful in organizing the ministry and mission of the local church. This book and the free diagnostic tool it presents are most useful if accompanied by a healthy process of conversations. With such a process, led by the Spirit, this book can help you discern a preferred future for your community of faith. Koster and Wagenveld write: A healthy community of faith is rooted first of all in the character and nature of God. It understands its mission and purpose in the world and organizes its life and work to be faithful and effective in its context. None of these vital signs stands alone. It is a combination of factors that together make up a faithful and fruitful organism, the living Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no magic in the number ten, but for the teaching purposes it has worked quite well in different cultural contexts in providing ideas and a language for discussing important issues in congregational life and mission. The intended audience for this book is any pastor, leader, or church member who is interest in having healthy conversations with others to strengthen the local church. |
| cogic preaching 2014: The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One Estrelda Y. Alexander, 2018-06-22 This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Neo-Pentecostal, and quasi-Pentecostal bodies within the United States and Canada. In addition, the dictionary contains entries on the important people, places, events, and theological and secular issues that shaped these groups over their histories, some of which go back more than a century. This and subsequent volumes will be invaluable tools for students and scholars of the history of Pentecostalism. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Preaching Sticky Sermons Brandon Kelley, Joe Hoagland, 2016-12-21 |
| cogic preaching 2014: Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, 2016-11-10 From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in America—from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful multi-volume reference includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States, documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, women’s issues, racial issues, civil religion, and more. |
| cogic preaching 2014: The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, 2024-05-16 This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives-- |
| cogic preaching 2014: Last Call for the African-American Church Chester Williams, 2014-12-24 Last Call for the African-American Church revisits the commandment Jesus left his followers to proclaim the gospel worldwide until his return, one that by all accounts is no longer a priority in the contemporary African-American church. |
| cogic preaching 2014: An Eternal Pitch Braxton D. Shelley, 2023-10-31 An Eternal Pitch examines the homiletic life and afterlife of Bishop G. E. Patterson, the dynamic spiritual leader of the Church of God in Christ from 2000 to 2007. Although Patterson died in 2007, his voice remains a staple of radio and television broadcast, and his sermons have taken on a life of their own online, where myriad YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users enact innovative forms of religious broadcasting. Their preoccupation with Patterson’s “Afterliveness” punctuates the significance of Patterson’s preoccupation with musical repetition: across the decades of Patterson’s ministry, a set of musical gestures recur as sonic channels, bringing an individual sermon into contact with scripture’s eternal transmission. |
| cogic preaching 2014: The Purpose Driven Church Rick Warren, Richard Warren, 1995 This is a five-point strategy for attracting and spiritually maturing the unchurched, from the pastor of Saddleback Church. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Critical Perspectives on Black Education Noelle Witherspoon-Arnold, Melanie C. Brooks, Bruce Makoto Arnold, 2014-06-01 While nation engages in debates concerning central issues of religion and religious diversity in education, the historic saliency of religion and spirituality in the Black community and in the education of its children continues to be largely ignored. Historically, religion and spirituality were foundational to the development and understanding of social justice issues, including, but not limited to, issues of protest, community up-lift, notions of care, and anti-oppression. Taking into account the historical significance of religion and spirituality in the Black community, it is essential for education scholars to cultivate these long-standing connections as a means for advancing contemporary struggles for social justice, religiosity in education, and counter-hegemonic praxis. The purpose of this book is to expand our understanding of spirituality and religion as related to the p-20 schooling of Blacks students. Educational scholarship continues to explore the workings of social justice to ameliorate inequities for those who have not been well served in schools. Although the concept of social justice remains a somewhat inchoate term in educational literature, this book seeks to explore the historicity of religion and spirituality while offering a scaffold that links ordinary everyday acts of justice, religion, and spirituality in education to a culture that systematically and institutionally assaults the worth of Black students. It is important to note that this book is grounded in a broad concept of religion and spirituality and the editors seek to be inclusive of all types, styles, and traditions of religiosity and spirituality. |
| cogic preaching 2014: An Introduction to Pentecostalism Allan Anderson, 2013-10-24 A comprehensive introduction to the history and theory behind the study of Pentecostalism, the fastest growing religious movement worldwide. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Women in the Church of God in Christ Anthea D. Butler, 2007 This first major study of the Church of God in Christ examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s. Simultaneous. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Church Elders Jeramie Rinne, 2014-04-30 Effective leadership is important. Nowhere is this more true than in the church. Jeramie Rinne offers readers a concise overview of the Bible's teaching on spiritual leadership, setting forth an easy-to-understand job description for elders that is focused on enabling pastors and church leaders to effectively shepherd their congregations. Giving practical guidance to new elders and helping church members better understand and support their spiritual leaders, this conversational book emphasizes purposeful ministry rather than project management. It will also bolster leaders' confidence by encouraging them to embrace their pastoral calling with grace, wisdom, and a clarity of vision. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Faith in the New Millennium Matthew Avery Sutton, Darren Dochuk, 2016 In Faith in the New Millennium, Matthew Avery Sutton and Darren Dochuk bring together a collection of essays from renowned historians, sociologists, and religious studies scholars that address the future of religion and American politics. The contributors discuss questions related to issues such as religion and immigration reform, civil rights, gay marriage, race, ethnicity, foreign policy, popular culture, nationalism, and the environment, investigating how faith, in the age of Obama, has been transformed. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Church Certification Program Bishop Charles Blake, 2015-04-28 The critical work of the Church has been dramatically reshaped by the vision that God gave Bishop Charles Edward Blake, Sr. He has redefined what we do as a church and encouraged every pastor to rethink how we, the Church, and the communities we serve, can live more abundantly. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics Paul A. Djupe, Laura R. Olson, 2014-07 Presents an encyclopedia of religion and politics in America including short biographies of important political and religious figures like Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, and synopses of religious entities like the Branch Davidians and the Episcopal church as well as important court cases of relevancy like Epperson et al. v. Arkansas having to do with evolution. |
| cogic preaching 2014: American Religious History Gary Scott Smith, 2020-12-07 A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational institutions and instruction, social norms and customs, marriage, and family life. By analyzing religion's interaction with American culture and prominent religious leaders and ideologies, this reference helps readers to better understand many fascinating, often controversial, religious leaders, ideas, events, and topics. The work is organized in three volumes devoted to particular periods. Volume one includes a chronology highlighting key events related to religion in American history and an introduction that overviews religion in America during the period covered by the volume, and roughly 10 essays that explore significant themes. These essays are followed by approximately 120 alphabetically arranged reference entries providing objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion in America. Each volume presents nearly 50 primary source documents, each introduced by a contextualizing headnote. A selected, general bibliography closes volume three. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Exploring Church History Derek Cooper, 2014 Cooper invites readers to consider the significance of church history in the lives of individuals and communities today. Rather than offering an exploration of bygone eras and outdated events, Cooper brings history to life by emphasizing how past events, individuals, and movements shape how we understand the world around us. |
| cogic preaching 2014: The History of Gospel Music Adam Woog, 2014-01-10 Gospel music and its encouraging messages have touched millions of people over time, and continues to be a vigorous and inspiring music today. This book discusses the roots of gospel music from its early beginnings in the grim days of slavery to contemporary gospel music. Author Adam Woog includes informative sidebars and numerous quotations from authoritative sources. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Religion and American Cultures Gary Laderman, Luis León, 2014-12-17 This four-volume work provides a detailed, multicultural survey of established as well as new American religions and investigates the fascinating interactions between religion and ethnicity, gender, politics, regionalism, ethics, and popular culture. This revised and expanded edition of Religion and American Cultures: Tradition, Diversity, and Popular Expression presents more than 140 essays that address contemporary spiritual practice and culture with a historical perspective. The entries cover virtually every religion in modern-day America as well as the role of religion in various aspects of U.S. culture. Readers will discover that Americans aren't largely Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish anymore, and that the number of popular religious identities is far greater than many would imagine. And although most Americans believe in a higher power, the fastest growing identity in the United States is the nones—those Americans who elect none when asked about their religious identity—thereby demonstrating how many individuals see their spirituality as something not easily defined or categorized. The first volume explores America's multicultural communities and their religious practices, covering the range of different religions among Anglo-Americans and Euro-Americans as well as spirituality among Latino, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities. The second volume focuses on cultural aspects of religions, addressing topics such as film, Generation X, public sacred spaces, sexuality, and new religious expressions. The new third volume expands the range of topics covered with in-depth essays on additional topics such as interfaith families, religion in prisons, belief in the paranormal, and religion after September 11, 2001. The fourth volume is devoted to complementary primary source documents. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Getting from Here to Eternity Kyle D Huckins, 2014-09-15 What does the Word of God have to say about today's issues? Religion writer Kyle Huckins addresses contemporary controversies and ancient biblical wisdom in this collection of more than one hundred of his national award-winning newspaper columns. |
| cogic preaching 2014: William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism Gastón Espinosa, 2014-08-11 In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870–1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gastón Espinosa provides new insight into the life and ministry of Seymour, the Azusa Street revival, and Seymour's influence on global Pentecostal origins. After defining key terms and concepts, he surveys the changing interpretations of Seymour over the past 100 years, critically engages them in a biography, and then provides an unparalleled collection of primary sources, all in a single volume. He pays particular attention to race relations, Seymour's paradigmatic global influence from 1906 to 1912, and the break between Seymour and Charles Parham, another founder of Pentecostalism. Espinosa's fragmentation thesis argues that the Pentecostal propensity to invoke direct unmediated experiences with the Holy Spirit empowers ordinary people to break the bottle of denominationalism and to rapidly indigenize and spread their message. The 104 primary sources include all of Seymour's extant writings in full and without alteration and some of Parham's theological, social, and racial writings, which help explain why the two parted company. To capture the revival's diversity and global influence, this book includes Black, Latino, Swedish, and Irish testimonies, along with those of missionaries and leaders who spread Seymour's vision of Pentecostalism globally. |
| cogic preaching 2014: African American Music Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, 2014-11-13 American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life. |
| cogic preaching 2014: I'm Still Singing Dr. Barbara Ward Farmer, 2014-08-19 Im Still Singing is Pastor Farmers life journey in the Gospel singing world since the age of 4. At age 63, she denotes her beginning experiences from her school, radio, composing and arranging,recording, and teaching days in a field that has seen its ups and downs. You will enjoy her consistency in singing Gospel even when financially it was not popular. She maps out for every reader that her musical journey had a path of its own before the age of 11 years old from singing simply because she could until she had an encounter with Jesus Christ, before she was 12 years old, that not only changed her singing style, but also her understanding of lifes purpose and meaning, which kept her singing even when the song and the music changed from a gospel singer to a gospel preacher,in the key of B natural---born again! |
| cogic preaching 2014: Saints in the Struggle Jonathan Langston Chism, 2019-01-14 This book uncovers and examines the contributions made by black Pentecostals in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) to civil rights struggles in Memphis during the 1950s and 1960s. This book provides detailed description of prominent Memphis COGIC activists’ engagements with local civil rights organizations. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Public Theology and Violent Rhetoric Examined in a Queer Womanist Critical Ethnography Teresa L. Smallwood, 2025-01-23 Public theology is an emerging constructive tool. In its inception, public theology was largely contextualized as the 'public church.' However, this thoughtful and empathetic book situates our publics everywhere. Smallwood contends that those who have been harmed by violent rhetoric from speech actors who would 'other' them retain the capacity to have and hold a theology. This different entry point allows for people of faith, those who are and those who are not associated with a particular communion of faith or denominational affiliation to claim public space for theologizing. Here, public theology is about the capacity of those who are 'othered' to affirmatively express their faith and to critically engage with those who would deny and denigrate their ontology. 'Enduring hardship as a good soldier' does not mean exposing oneself to verbal abuse week after week. Many LGBTQIA+ persons are assaulted, degraded, humiliated, and derogated from the pulpits and podiums of places of worship. This abuse caused many to turn away from their faith. Those who withstood protracted verbal abuse turned it inward and began to hate themselves. Through ethnography, Smallwood tackles these tough truths and engages with LGBTQIA+ persons. This book critically examines both the harm done to them and the help that is to come from a paradigmatic shift in care. Smallwood emphasises how spiritual self-assessment, ritual, and indigenous spiritual practices offer a way to wholeness and healing. Drawing from Yoruba epistemology, this work offers a framework for rebirth, renewal, and reclamation. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Handbook of Megachurches Stephen J. Hunt, 2019-11-26 The megachurch is an exceptional recent religious trend, certainly within Christian spheres. Spreading from the USA, megachurches now reached reach different global contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives. |
| cogic preaching 2014: Miracle Invasion Dean Merrill, 2018-02-01 God’s power is alive today! Let’s face it: church can be too boring—too predictable. People have never been so hungry for an authentic manifestation of God’s power. Missionary stories of profound miracles in other nations abound, but what about in my nation, my city, or my home? Testimonies of past miracles are prolific, but where are they in my generation? Miracle Invasion includes modern examples of spiritual gifts in action and true stories that will rekindle expectation that the Holy Spirit is still alive and well, working in our time, on our continent, whenever we welcome his presence. In Miracle Invasion, you’ll see:God is at work for your good—today!All things are possible with God.God is no respecter of persons. You matter to God.You are on the brink of a miracle, so don’t give up. The Holy Spirit has not forgotten about the twenty-first century church. People in North America are experiencing God’s power in authentic demonstrations of the Spirit. We serve an extraordinary God who loves to act supernaturally on behalf of ordinary people. |
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Our Foundation The Church Of God On Christ, Inc. (COGIC) is a Christian organization in the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. It is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States.
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COGIC is the fourth-largest Protestant group in the United States, with more than 13,000 churches in 105 countries and millions of adherents worldwide. The Church Of God In Christ, …
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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although …
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COGIC . WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS GENERAL OPERATION FUND MORTGATE LIQUIDATION FUND. Home; About; From The Desk of Pastor & Lady Hill; …
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Jun 8, 2025 · Church Of God In Christ, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee. 282,636 likes · 5,126 talking about this · 16,655 were here. The Church of God in Christ, Inc. (COGIC) is a Christian …
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Our Foundation The Church Of God On Christ, Inc. (COGIC) is a Christian organization in the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. It is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States.
What is the Church of God in Christ? - Bible Hub
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a historically significant Pentecostal-Holiness denomination that emphasizes sanctification, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and a life of …
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About COGIC. What We Believe; Statement of Faith; Our Founder; Our History; Administration. The Executive Branch. The Presiding Bishop. The National Adjutancy
Exploring the Faith: An In-Depth Look on the Church of God in ...
Mar 8, 2025 · The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Christian denomination based in 1897 by using Charles Harrison Mason. It emphasizes a doctrine of holiness and sanctification, mixing …
Church of God In Christ, International, Inc.
Experience the Church of God In Christ, International, Inc - a dynamic faith community with a nationwide presence. Join us for inspiring services, meaningful ministries, and a warm, …
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Jun 1, 2025 · Word of Life Ministries, Inc. COGIC, El Paso, Texas. 676 likes · 15 talking about this · 1,701 were here. Christian Ministry in El Paso, Texas - Pastor:...
