Good News from Tinyville: Stories of Hope and Heart

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Chalice Press, Jan 1, 1999 - Religion - 168 pages
From this fictional, but very real, setting come seventeen story-sermons designed to inspire, amuse, and enlighten. Besides young Jackson Lewis Hillman, you'll meet such characters as Reverend Hubris, who learns a lesson about compassion, and the crazy old man who preached to shoes; and you will muse on topics from table manners, to the turn of the century, to why Jackson thinks his Momma is God. For pastors who want tips on how to make Allen's charming narrative preaching style their own, a final chapter contains the author's commentary on how the stories relate to the biblical texts on which they are based or the occasion in which they were preached.

About the author (1999)

O. Wesley Allen, Jr. is the Associate Professor of Homiletics and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary. An ordained United Methodist elder, he has served as a pastor and campus minister. He is the author of several books, including Good News from Tinyville, Preaching Resurrection, Reading the Synoptic Gospels, and Preaching and Reading the Lectionary.

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