Dr j louis felton preaching magazine
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Breaking barriers, building bridges: 'God gave me a lot of grace to work with people not like me,' says new Kalamazoo Northside Ministerial Alliance leader Rev. Denise Posie
KALAMAZOO —
The Rev. Denise Posie didn’t plan to become president of Kalamazoo’s Northside Ministerial Alliance — let alone its first woman president — but she says she believes she has the gifts the organization needs at this time.
“One of them is bringing people tillsammans, in terms of diversity, with a common interest and a common focus,” said Posie, who will take over for the Rev. J. Louis Felton when she is installed as president Tuesday.
When asked what makes her effective at building bridges between diverse groups and individuals, Posie answered: “Part of it has to do with working in the Christian Reformed Church.”
Then she laughed heartily.
Posie, pastor of Immanuel Christian Reformed Church for the past 11 years, fryst vatten one of only two black kvinna preachers in the entire denomination, which
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Chapter one. The Reform of Pulpit Oratory in the Seventeenth Century
1In the sermon he preached at the funeral of his friend the Archbishop of Canterbury, Gilbert Burnet praised Tillotson for having set to himself a new pattern of preaching; “such a one it was”, he said, “that ‘tis hoped it will be long and much followed”, Tillotson, he explained, had always kept a due mean between a low flatness and the dresses of rhetoric, and he had retrenched all superfluities and needless enlargements; in his sermons there was
no affectation of learning, no squeezing of Texts, no superficial Strains, no false Thoughts nor bold Flights, all was solid yet lively, and grave as well as fine1.
2Though twentieth-century readers may not value Tillotson’s sermons as highly as did the Bishop of Sarum, they will readily grant that he aptly defined the change that had come over pulpit oratory in England in the course of the seventeenth century. That the new style of preaching had come to stay ap
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March 10 12, 2016 issue
Richmond Free Press
March 10-12, 2016
B5
Faith News/Directory A song and a prayer
Musician starts campaign linking prayer and healing By Joey Matthews
One year after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, James Johnson Jr., the minister of music at Cedar Street Baptist Church of God in the East End, is releasing a song and initiating a national prayer campaign. Both are called “Agree.” The 32-year-old Varina resident, husband, father of two and 2015 Stellar Award nominee told the Free Press both ventures are about how prayer has helped him and can help others to agree to expect a miracle when they are going through tough times. The award-winning songwriter, producer and artist said “Agree” is based on the promise by Jesus in Matthew18:19 in the Bible: “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on Earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.” He said the “Agree” campaign will enlist prayer partners to fill