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    Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times
    Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times
    Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times
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    Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times

    By Sid Burgess

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    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!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateMar 9, 2012
    ISBN9781621894124
    Scripture Apps Made Easy: Biblical Applications for Today's Tough Times
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    Sid Burgess

    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.

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      Scripture Apps Made Easy - Sid Burgess

      Foreword

      Several years ago, Rev. Sid Burgess created an alternative worship service for those who struggled with the traditional Mother’s Day church format. Sid, along with his wife Melissa, designed a sensitive and creative healing service for the afternoon of Mother’s Day. This took place at Edgewood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. I was delighted to be the preacher that day. Following a Southern tradition of wearing red roses to honor living mothers and white ones for the deceased, we placed a pink rose on the pulpit to represent those struggling with loss, miscarriage, SIDS, infertility, and broken dreams. I recall this service as I write because Sid Burgess stepped into a gap in ministry—a gap filled with pain, retrospection, and the big hurt.

      Once again, Sid Burgess has stepped into a ministerial gap by writing Scripture Apps Made Easy. He is offering alternative avenues or apps (applications) for the many big hurts in life. These include aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, bullying, doubt, heart surgery, obesity, surgery, unemployment, violence, and many more. Each concise chapter offers appropriate scripture for the pain that is faced.

      In times of stress, it is the nature of humankind to fall back on the familiar. In this handbook, Sid Burgess offers to the pastor or lay minister a selection of familiar scriptures to comfort the suffering. It is a handy, humane resource and reference. In addition, in places of disaster and in times of shock, the minister herself or himself may be almost immobilized. Again, this manual offers a way to move forward in ministry.

      There is a phase of ministerial development when clergy move into a place of wisdom. That is one of the descriptions of a pastor: a wise man or wise woman. In this contribution, Scripture Apps Made Easy, Sid Burgess has not only stepped into the gap of literature, he has grounded himself in the wisdom of the ages.

      Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, DTh

      Professor of Pastoral Care, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

      Fellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors

      Ordained minister, PCUSA

      Preface

      Why doesn’t God talk to us like God talks to people in the Bible? the child asked her mother. Though the answer may not satisfy the child, people of faith believe that God does speak to us—present tense—through Holy Scripture. This is not to say that God is limited to scripture, but the church has long held that God speaks most clearly through the ancient texts passed down to us by our Hebrew ancestors and the first-century Christian community. In addition, the Bible gives us the words to address God directly with our hopes and our hurts, our dreams and our fears. The purpose of this book is to make a precious few relevant texts readily accessible to you.

      I have used the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) almost exclusively here. However, it was published just before the larger church became sensitive to the need for more inclusive language when referring to Holy God. Therefore, you will often find the word God in brackets [ ]. That is to signal that I have changed a male pronoun, normally he, to the word God, inasmuch as God is neither male nor female, but Spirit. In deference to the NRSV translators and to avoid repetition, I have not done this in every case, but often enough, I hope, that the reader will become accustomed to thinking of God without gender identification. You will also note that I have used several texts repeatedly, but not to worry, as none of these texts can be worn out.

      Acknowledgments

      I want to express my appreciation

      to the members and friends of Edgewood Presbyterian Church who have so graciously and openly allowed me to share their hurts and their hopes, their joys and their sorrows for more than twenty years;

      to those individuals who have given me permission to use their personal stories;

      to Walter Brueggemann, who first opened to me the depth and breadth of the

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