Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times
Ebook
Today's technology offers thousands of applications--apps--to solve problems and to enhance lives. Whether it's making major financial decisions or planning a dinner menu--there's an app for that! When it comes to dealing with life's inevitable difficulties, a pastoral visit and a prayer are helpful, but people of faith--and people in search of faith--need sacred assurance directly from God's Word. They need a Scripture app. While many books reference Scriptures for use in tough times, this book includes the Scriptures in an easily accessible format. It also provides commentary based on the author's decades of pastoral care experience to help apply the ancient words to contemporary situations. Pastors, counselors, chaplains, anyone who cares for others, and all of us who need care, here are Scripture apps made easy!
"[Burgess] is deeply grounded in Scripture and has the keen
sensibility of a pastor. He has, moreover, confidence to work the
interface between Scripture and real life, and has the emancipated
imagination to make compelling connections between the two . . .The
author knows, as the church has always known, it is about
application!"
--Walter Brueggemann
Author and speaker
"[The author] demonstrates a sensitive approach to important
moments of human suffering. His gentle words, joined with
Scripture, provide moments of 'sheer silence' that allow an
opportunity to discern God's Word for our situation. [This work] is
a helpful resource for those who yearn to hear, and those who are
called to speak, a hopeful word in times of challenge and
struggle."
--Robert Madsen
Presbyterian Church (USA) minister
"How I wish I had had these apps twenty years ago when I started
pastoral ministry! Those nail-biting situations I had to muddle
through would have been approached with a more confident,
theologically connected response. I'm impressed by the weaving of
the pastoral situation with appropriate Bible texts and helpful
discussion to ponder. Thank you, Sid. I now know what I can get for
myself and colleagues for presents!"
--Debbie Wells
Chaplain
"This little gem of a book, written in very brief chapters,
reflects the gleanings of Sid's years of reflection on God's word,
especially the Psalms, in regard to a wide range of real-life
struggles. No scripture-as-recipe-book with facile answers here,
but rather a starting place to provoke the dialogue of
faith."
--Bart Grooms
Pastoral Counselor
"Sid Burgess is an excellent preacher and a thoughtful liturgist
who leads a creative, loving congregation. This book gives us what
that congregation has experienced for years: insightful,
imaginative appropriation of Holy Scripture for life's countless
challenges . . . Each page carefully reminds us of the good news in
Jesus Christ--God is truly for us."
--Joseph Scrivner
University Professor
Product Details
- Title : Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times
- Author: Burgess, Sid
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781621894124
Sid Burgess is Pastor of the Edgewood Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Birmingham, Alabama. His sermons have been heard on the Protestant Hour (now Day One), and are available at www.edgewoodpc.org.