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ISBN-13: | 9781498278355 |
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Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
Publication date: | 12/17/2015 |
Pages: | 436 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xiii
"The Irresistible Urge to Preach" xxii
1 "We Would Rather Have an Unqualified Man Than a Qualified Woman" 2
2 Starting a Church in the Garage at Age Eight 11
3 The Law Student Who Became Bishop 16
4 The Bishop Who Swore Never to Be a Preacher 18
5 The Woman No One Would Allow in Seminary 20
6 The Lutheran Who Became a Baptist 25
7 Cracked in Gods University of Hard Knocks 34
8 "Confess the Call or Die" 38
9 Preaching at Camp at Age Fifteen 42
10 The Mississippi Preacher Who Founded a Convention 44
11 Damascus Road in an Emergency Room 49
12 When God Appeared as a Light 54
13 "Choose Me and Live, or Take Your Chances with Satan" 58
14 When God Called at 3:45 Every Morning 60
15 Acceptance of the Call at a Funeral 64
16 "Now That Your Grandmother Is Gone, You Must Move Up" 71
17 Movies and Dancing or Preaching: Which Will It Be? 74
18 Young Preacher Influences Future Baptist Congress President 76
19 Boy Preachers Yes, Girl Preachers No 78
20 From a Seventh Grader to the Leading Revivalist 81
21 A Divine Seizure 84
22 "God's Yes Was Louder Than My No" 88
23 A Scary Question at Ordination 95
24 "Fear Not, I Have Chosen You…" 99
25 The Troubler of Biblical Waters 104
26 When God Spoke through Tchaikovsky's Symphony # 4 in F Minor 111
27 The Preacher Who Is Also Mayor 114
28 God Called through a Little Boy without Shoes 116
29 "I Think I'm Going Crazy" 124
30 "You Are No Longer to Work with the Dead, but with the Living Dead" 137
31 When Her Father Said, "I Won't Support You if You Go to Seminary" 143
32 From a Physical Education or Music Major to District Superintendent 147
33 "Are You Ready to Preach?" 151
34 "Nobody with Your Color Eyes Can Be a Preacher" 157
35 "The Calling Came as a Fact That I Was Raised by God" 169
36 "Who in the World Would Marry a Woman Preacher?" 172
37 Considered Most Likely to Be Bishop in High School 179
38 Influenced by an Old Testament Professor 183
39 The Most Dominant President of a Baptist Convention 186
40 When God Spoke in a New York Traffic Jam 188
41 "It Was like My Body Was on Fire" 195
42 Two Similar Accidents - Is God Speaking to Me? 197
43 "I Would Not Be a Boy Preacher" 199
44 "I Was Down in the Motor Pool Preaching to Trucks" 201
45 Rebellious Soldier in Two Armies: Mans and God's 204
46 "God, If You Want Me to Preach, Wake Me Up at 3:00 or 4:00 o'Clock in the Morning" 211
47 One Regret: Daddy King Wasn't There 213
48 "I Don't Come from a Lineage of Preachers" 216
49 "I Never Wanted to Be a Preacher" 220
50 From a Broadcasting Career to Preaching 226
51 Called While Reading a Score of Chopin 230
52 Betwixt and Between: Blinded at High Noon 233
53 The Presence of God in the Wind 242
54 "I Didn't Call You to Be Your Father's Clone" 245
55 When a White Candle Turned Red 254
56 "In the Same Year That Mama Died, I Also Saw the Lord" 259
57 Has Anyone Written More on Black Preaching? 264
58 "I Made a Bargain with God" 270
59 The Urge to Preach 275
60 The Influence of Being a Preacher's Kid 277
61 "I Had No Choice" 280
62 Awakened by the Hand of God 283
63 An Overwhelming Burden 286
64 Isolation, Separation, and Confrontation with the Brutality of Fraternities 289
65 "Called from My Mother's Womb" 300
66 Called in the Midst of a Medical Mishap 304
67 Rebellion of an AME Preachers Kid 307
68 Under a Magnolia Tree Looking Up, When God Spoke 311
69 An Irresistible Compulsion 320
70 "A Constant Inclination toward Ministry" 322
71 "I Was Anti-religious and Anti-God" 324
72 The Saxophone Player Who Heard the Call of God 326
73 The Dean of Black Preachers: He Didn't Want to Be a Preacher 328
74 "I Tried to Avoid it; I'm Going to Die" 331
75 "No, No, No, Young Man. Not Money; Service, Service" 334
76 When the Preacher Came, Everything Seemed Better 337
77 "…All Right God, I Tell You What, I'm Gonna Fleece You" 338
78 No Girl Friends If You Are a Teenage Preacher 346
79 Confirmation of a Woman Preacher by Women Preachers 350
80 "The Next Time You Hear That Voice, Answer Yes, Lord" 360
81 Unnatural Light in a Dark Room 362
82 Awakened at Four o'Clock; "I Had Been Preaching" 372
83 Lost on the Pacific When God Spoke 378
84 "The Lord Is Calling…You Can't Ignore That" 384
85 "You Know What I Want You to Do" 388
86 From Marginal Roman Catholic to Muslim to CME Preacher 392
Appendix A Selected Data 397
Appendix B Index of Call Stories by Author 404