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Preaching is real and authentic when it discloses God’s presence, illumines works of revelation, enables reconciliation between humankind and God and bears the redemptive gift of God’s love for each one of us. Preaching: The Mirror of God is a reflection of the essence and qualities of true, meaningful preaching, encompassing God’s love, reconciliation, and kerugma, God working through Christ in and for people. The book examines the wisdom of great preachers’ understanding of what works, what connects the man or woman in the pew to God’s wisdom disclosed through the gift of the preacher. The format of the text interweaves the hunger for meaning found in Fosdick’s counseling sermon methodology. Three gifted pastors’ insights, reflections, and experience add depth to the understanding Rev. Wickliffe Fisher believes makes preaching real. We live in a time when the human race needs to find God in our midst so that the issues confronting our world can be met head on and we, the human race, can have a metanoia, a turning around, to live the lives of mature integrity, respecting all human life and living the life that is God’s gift to us.
Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Black & White Paperback, 53 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jan 31, 2010)
ISBN10: 1432743104
ISBN13: 9781432743109
Genre: RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Preaching
Rev. Brooke Wickliffe Fisher is an ordained United Church of Christ minister. She lives with her husband, Richard and daughter, Tara in North Port, Florida. They have two cats, Sassie and Rini, and one dog, Jillie. Up North in Wisconsin live three step-kids and their families including four grandchildren. Rev. Wickliffe Fisher received an M-Div from Andover Newton Theological School in Boston, a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Florida Teaching Certificate from the State of Florida. She has served seven churches, including a campus ministry, in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Florida. She is a compassionate human being with a deep faith and commitment. Rev. Wickliffe Fisher received the Koinonia Preaching Award for her “conviction” in preaching. She is a family descendant of John Wyclif, the Morning Star of the Protestant Reformation. John Wyclif lived in the 1300s in England. He was the first to translate the entire Bible into the English language. The Wyclif Abbey is a church erected in Wyclif’s honor, located in England near Oxford. Rev. Wickliffe Fisher’s grandfather is buried there in the family cemetery 
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