Books by the Rev. Dr. Lisa Cressman
Founding Steward of Backstory Preaching
practical and timely!
I never could have known this treatise on grief would be released in the midst of a pandemic. I could not have foreseen just how dramatically the ways of life we’ve always taken for granted would shift almost overnight.
At the time, I had in mind the grief of our communal losses.
As the impacts of globalization, technology, political polarization, climate change, and what appears to be a second Reformation for the Church transform the world into something new and almost unrecognizable, we’re grappling with the passing of old ways of life and being.
The lessons are keenly relevant to our new reality, and I hope they support you and, in turn, your congregations in the weeks and months to come.
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The Liturgical Press
“The result of working through this book will be a preacher with a renewed sense of call—and the skills to carry it out.”
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“This volume will be a great read for the individual preacher, a wonderful resource for clergy colleague groups, and an excellent addition to preaching classes in lay preacher training, Bible colleges, and seminaries.”
Companion Workbook
Plant the ideas and skills taught in Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft deep in your soul with this interactive workbook.
Downloadable and printable, the companion workbook is filled with exercises to help you reflect, plan, and make lasting, meaningful change.
“This is no mere prescription to heal what ails the preacher’s performance. Cressman invites nothing less than the renewal of the art of preaching in our time through the renewal of the preacher’s soul for the sake of the Gospel. Through the integration of one’s own life and spirituality into this vessel called a sermon, Cressman invites each reader and practitioner to discover that we ourselves are Good News.
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