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Recommended Reading List
This reading list was distributed at the Preaching Forgiveness Conference and is in progress; send us your suggestions for additional books and resources.

   

Books by conference speakers

 

Forgiveness: What the Bible Teaches, What You Need to Know

Andrew & Leonard Kuyvenhoven

The Faces of Forgiveness: Searching for Wholeness and Salvation

F. LeRon Shults & Steven J. Sandage

To Forgive Is Human

Steven J. Sandage

A Chorus of Witnesses: Model Sermons for Today's Preacher

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. & Thomas Long

 

 

Books on forgiveness suggested by conference speakers

 

Forgiving and Reconciling: Bridges to Wholeness and Hope

Everett L. Worthington, Jr.

The Art of Forgiving: When You Need to Forgive and Don't Know How

Lewis B. Smedes

Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis

L. Gregory Jones

Forgive and Forget: Healing The Hurts We Don't Deserve

Lewis B. Smedes

 

 

Books on preaching

 

The Sermon as Symphony

Mike Graves

Proclaim the Wonder

Scott E. Hoezee

The Homiletical Plot

Eugene L. Lowry

Preaching That Speaks to Women

Alice P. Matthews

360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the Word

Michael J. Quicke

The Four Pages of the Sermon

Paul Scott Wilson

 

 

2004-2005 Books of the Quarter

 

Fall – Searching for Home: Spirituality for Restless Souls

M. Craig Barnes

Winter – Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach
Work and Play Differently

Kathleen DeBoer

Spring – No Future Without Forgiveness

Desmond Tutu

 

 

Previous Calvin Seminary Books of the Quarter

 

Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time

Dorothy Bass

The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez

Jimmy Breslin

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Frederick Buechner

Peculiar Treasures

Frederick Buechner

Open Secrets

Richard Lischer

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Jacob Have I Loved

Katherine Paterson

Cry the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation

Barbara Brown Taylor

God of Weakness: How God Works through the Weak Things of the World

John Timmer


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Books Featured
These books were featured at the Preaching Forgiveness Conference:

The Faces of Forgiveness  Forgiveness  No Future Without Forgiveness