Crisis Preaching and Corporate Worship

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Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol. 1 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941), p. 182, as quoted in Eugene Lowry, The Homiletical Plot (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1980), 29.

Joseph R. Jeter, Jr., Crisis Preaching: Personal and Public (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993), 14.

Jocelyn Carita Thornton, “Preach Your Way Through: Pastors, Congregations and the Crisis of Faith” (doctor of ministry in preaching thesis, Association of Chicago Theological Schools, 2011), 41.

Tom Colvin, “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love,” in the Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (Chicago: Covenant Publications, 1996), #629.

At a wedding, the homily most often recites what the church believes about Christian marriage and how we understand God's plan for human relationships, as opposed to speeches that may occur during the wedding reception, where the subject may be tributes to or advice for the bride and groom, as well as telling amusing stories about them.

Joseph R. Jeter, Jr., Crisis Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998), 93.

William H. Willimon, Worship as Pastoral Care (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), 100.

Denise Lynn states that altar items are physical objects that represent an ideal, belief, relationship, concept, or idea, which exert a powerful influence on the subconscious because they express various levels of truth beyond the reality of surface experiences, reminding us of the wonder and magic that surround us. This is a syncretistic rather than Christian understanding of symbolic objects in worship. Denise Lynn, Altars: Bringing Sacred Shrines into Your Everyday Life (New York: Ballantine, 1999), 5, 9.

Geoffrey Wainwright, “Preaching as Worship,” The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 28, no. 4 (Winter 1983): 325–36, reprinted in The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present, ed. Richard Lischer (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002), 443–52.

Ibid., 445.

Jeter, 79–80.

Michelle Boorstein, “Koran Burning by Florida Pastor Initially Went Unnoticed,” in The Washington Post, April 1, 2011.

Jeter, 81.

Ibid., 91, 93.

Howard W. Stone, Crisis Counseling, rev. ed. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993), 38, quoted in Jeter, 95.

Jeter, 105.

Carol M. Norén, In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2001), 76.

Ibid., 97.

Ibid., 99.

A. J. Gossip, “But When Life Tumbles In, What Then?” in The Hero in Thy Soul (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1928), reprinted in A Treasury of Great Preaching (formerly 20 Centuries of Great Preaching), ed. Clyde Fant (Waco, TX: Word, 1995), 236. Volume eight: Morgan to Coffin. Word 1971, 1995, 106–16.

Ibid., 235.

Dennis K. Hagstrom, “Columbine,” in Carol M. Norén, In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001), 169–72.

Ibid., 170.

Ignacios Castuera, “Breath from the Four Winds,” in Dreams on Fire, Embers of Hope: From the Pulpits of Los Angeles after the Riots, ed. Ignacio Castuera (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1992), 72.

Ibid., 78.

Jesse Jackson, “Safe on Broken Pieces,” in Castuera, Dreams on Fire, Embers of Hope: From the Pulpits of Los Angeles after the Riots, 44.

Ibid., 54.

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Carol M. Norén

Carol M. Norén is a United Methodist minister, and the Wesley W. Nelson Professor of Homiletics at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois.