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

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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!

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.

This is an outstanding publication that takes the reader through the specific hardships and difficulties of institutional church life. It acknowledges severe challenges,real and imagined as well as spiritual leadership and successful break throughs.

It also conveys the on going natural human cycle of concerted attempts to undermine with exreme difficulties,disappointments,failures, the power of prayer, divine intervention and subsequent achievement through grace and mercy.

The reader is reminded this is an unyielding cycle and is an example of spiritual warfare that requires continuous monitoring and unremitting offense. But, joy comes in the morning.

This is destine to become a classic and a must read for anyone with storm experience