Jared Alcantara

Jared Alcántara’s Books

The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson

Offers a definitive biography of one of the most controversial, complex--and forgotten luminaries of the twentieth century. Alcántara chronicles Jackson's humble beginnings, rise to power, and gradual fall from grace.

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In The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson, Jared Alcántara offers a definitive biography of one of the most controversial, complex--and, eventually, forgotten--luminaries of the twentieth century. Alcántara chronicles Jackson's rise to power as pastor of the largest Black church in the United States, the 15,000-member Olivet Baptist in Chicago, and as the longest-tenured president of the six-million-member National Baptist Convention, at one time the nation's largest Black organization. Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier contended that holding an office like this was akin to being the president of a "nation within a nation," the president of Black America.Nicknamed the "Negro Pope" along with "Silver Tongue," Jackson was known foremost for his oratorical talents. But his significance to twentieth-century Black Christianity and U.S. history more broadly has not yet been fully understood. Alcántara here provides a compelling examination of Jackson's humble beginnings, rise to power, and gradual fall from grace. The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson examines Jackson's political alliances, describes his controversial views on race, catalogues his global ecumenical work, explains his fallout with the family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and connects his eloquence to the maintenance of power in a tradition that prizes sacred oratory. Drawing on extensive archival material from the Chicago History Museum, Alcántara deftly chronicles the life and legacy of one of the most complex figures in African American history.

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Many preachers struggle to preach from Proverbs, not knowing where to start, what to do, and how to do it. This anthology of 915 verses contains powerful truths communicated in memorable ways, often in eight words or less, which creates a challenge for converting them into engaging homiletical form. How to Preach Proverbs addresses this challenge, giving preachers practical, genre-conscious strategies for preaching from Proverbs. Alcántara identifies seven features-genre, image, characters, themes, timing, integrity, and justice-and proposes concrete strategies for employing them in sermons. Appendices include an article exploring the identity of the woman in Proverbs 31:10-31, as well as three sample sermons that exemplify genre-conscious preaching and give readers practical ideas for solving problems in sermon planning.

How to Preach Proverbs

Provides practical, genre-conscious strategies for preaching from Proverbs. Alcántara identifies seven features – genre, image, characters, themes, timing, integrity, and justice – and proposes concrete strategies for employing them in sermons.

Let the Legends Preach: Sermons by Living Legends at the E. K. Bailey Preaching Conference

Celebrates the past and current legends of black preaching by preserving the sermons that they preached at the Annual E. K. Bailey Expository Preaching Conference.

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Jared E. Alcántara celebrates the past and current legends of black preaching by preserving the sermons that they preached at the Annual E. K. Bailey Expository Preaching Conference. The twenty-four preachers honored in this book received the Living Legend Award for Excellence in Preaching on account of ministries that impacted hundreds of thousands of people across the nation and around the world. Not only does this book lift up preachers that are familiar to so many, names belonging to the great cloud of witnesses in black preaching over the last fifty years, but it also introduces a new generation of preachers to their powerful stories and homiletical wisdom. Each chapter offers readers short biographical sketches on the life and ministry of the preachers that were honored followed by the sermon that they preached or the lecture that they delivered at the annual conference.

Las Prácticas de la Predicación Cristiana: Rudimentos para la Proclamación Eficaz

Un enfoque de la predicación cristiana basado en la práctica que se centra en cinco competencias: convicción, contexto, claridad, concreción y creatividad.

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El destacado erudito Jared Alcántara ofrece una edición en español de su libro de texto introductorio de predicación de la próxima generación que es centrado en la práctica, intencionalmente colaborativo y tecnológicamente innovador. Esta edición en inglés abrió nuevos caminos mediante la adopción de un enfoque basado en la práctica para enseñar predicación y mediante el uso de una entrega tecnológicamente innovadora para mejorar la experiencia educativa de los estudiantes. Ahora Alcántara trae su enfoque único a los pastores en entrenamiento que hablan español, a los institutos bíblicos de español y a las clases bilingües. Alcántara introduce los básicos de la predicación cristiana y enfatiza las habilidades que los predicadores pueden cultivar durante todas sus vidas. Este libro presenta las perspectivas de un equipo diverso de colaboradores, ayudando a los predicadores permanecer afinados con el mundo multicultural que habitamos. Rótulos dirigen a los lectores a un sitio web complementario para obtener más información o práctica. Los recursos en línea incluyen sermones en audio y video, respuestas en video del autor y contribuciones de colaboradores. Estos materiales auxiliares están disponibles en inglés o español, con subtítulos recíprocos, para facilitar una variedad de usos educativos.

The Practices of Christian Preaching: Essentials for Effective Proclamation

A practice-based approach to Christian preaching focusing on five key competencies: conviction, context, clarity, concreteness, and creativity.

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Leading homiletician Jared Alcántara offers a practice-centered, collaborative, technologically innovative, next-generation introductory preaching textbook. The book breaks new ground by adopting a practice-based approach to teaching preaching and by using innovative technological delivery to enhance the educational experience of learners. Alcántara introduces the basics of Christian preaching and emphasizes the skills preachers must cultivate throughout their lives. He shows that preachers can learn effective preaching by paying keen attention to five key competencies: conviction, context, clarity, concreteness, and creativity. Featuring the perspectives of a diverse team of collaborators, The Practices of Christian Preaching is designed to prepare effective communicators for the church's multicultural future. Call-outs in the book direct readers to a companion website for further information or practice. The online resources include audio and video sermons, video responses from the author, and contributions from collaborators, enabling Alcántara to coach students by showing them instead of just telling them.

Learning from a Legend: What Gardner C. Taylor Can Teach Us about Preaching

Six lessons that Dr. Gardner C. Taylor can teach us about preaching: pain, redemption, eloquence, apprenticeship, context, and holiness in the pulpit.

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In April 2015, America's last pulpit prince died. When Gardner C. Taylor (1918-2015), former senior pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, departed this life at the age of ninety-six, the United States lost one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, not enough preachers today know his name or why his preaching can enrich and bless the church today. Learning from a Legend: What Gardner C. Taylor Can Teach Us about Preaching provides Christian preachers with much-needed lessons, wisdom, and insights from Dr. Taylor, the dean of American preaching. It highlights six lessons that Dr. Taylor can teach preachers in the twenty-first century about pain, redemption, eloquence, apprenticeship, context, and holiness. Not only did Dr. Taylor teach and preach these lessons, he lived them. Those wanting to learn more about Dr. Taylor's preaching while also sharpening their own preaching ought to read this book.

Crossover Preaching: Intercultural-Improvisational Homiletics in Conversation with Gardner C. Taylor

An improvisational-intercultural approach to preaching that recovers Dr. Gardner C. Taylor’s contemporary significance and equips US churches and seminary classrooms for the future.

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As society becomes more culturally diverse and globally connected, churches and seminaries are rapidly changing. And as the church changes, preaching must change too. Crossover Preaching proposes a way forward through conversation with the "dean of the nation's black preachers," Gardner C. Taylor, senior pastor emeritus of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York. In this richly interdisciplinary study, Jared E. Alcántara argues that an analysis of Taylor's preaching reveals an improvisational-intercultural approach that recovers his contemporary significance and equips US churches and seminary classrooms for the future. Alcántara argues that preachers and homileticians need to develop intercultural and improvisational proficiencies to reach an increasingly intercultural church. Crossover Preaching equips them with concrete practices designed to help them cultivate these competencies and thus communicate effectively in a changing world.