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    Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe: Insights into a More Meaningful Life
    Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe: Insights into a More Meaningful Life
    Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe: Insights into a More Meaningful Life
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    Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe: Insights into a More Meaningful Life

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    Jim Brown has written a book that will lift your spirits and inspire your mind! Read it and then re-read it and share it with people you love! They will be blessed by this book!"
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    Release dateJun 15, 2011
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    Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe: Insights into a More Meaningful Life
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    Jim Brown

    I became interested in the Forex markets in 2002 after attending a stock trading meeting at a private residence. One guy announced that he had made a killing by trading the Yen against the US dollar. Who knew that the individual on the street could even trade currencies? Up until then, it was only the banks or wealthy individuals with access to this type of trading. A whole new industry was born. At first there weren't many reputable brokers around, their platforms were unreliable, spreads were huge and the internet was dial up. Forums popped up and 'trading gurus' appeared.  There was money to be made by those who were were smart at the time, either by straddling the news releases or exploiting the carry trade. But brokers also got smarter and either shut these advantages down or created trading conditions that made it difficult to profit from. My problem was, I listened to too many so called 'gurus' and got caught up in all the hype. Always thinking they were smarter than me as their systems were complex, and therefore must be better than anything I could come up with. So for a few years, I bounced around different systems, blowing accounts and giving back profits I had managed to make. There were good times and bad times, but I never gave up. I soon realized that some of the 'gurus' were the real deal, and started to pay attention to them to see what they had to offer. I became smarter with my money management, got out of the day trading habit and generally simplified my trading methods so they were easy to implement and explain. I have also dabbled with building my own trading robots with mixed success and use them at times to assist me with my trading. I now make a living from trading Forex, mainly off the 4hr or Daily charts. My systems are simple and profitable overall. I love trading Forex and I see it as having a huge potential to make some serious income. It is not as easy as some would make you believe, but if you keep it simple, control your money management, and be consistent, then there is no reason that you too shouldn't succeed in the world of Forex trading. Patience, courage and discipline.....

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      Spiritual Breadcrumbs from the Universe - Jim Brown

      © 2011 by T. A. Prickett. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 08/20/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-6924-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-6923-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-6922-2 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011906962

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      WHAT IS PREACHING

      PREACHING IN THE

      OLD TESTAMENT

      PREACHING IN THE

      NEW TESTAMENT

      THE PREACHING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST

      THE PREACHING OF JESUS

      APOSTALIC PREACHING

      THE PREACHING OF PETER

      THE PREACHING OF STEPHEN

      THE PREACHING OF PAUL

      PREACHING IN THE EARLY CHURCH

      THE PREACHING OF ORIGEN

      (185-254)

      THE PREACHING OF CHRYSOSTOM

      (347-407)

      THE PREACHING OF AUGUSTINE

      (354-430)

      PREACHING IN THE MIDDLE AGES

      THE PREACHING OF HILDEGARD OF BINGER(1098-1179)

      THE PREACHING OF THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-74)

      PREACHING IN THE

      RENAISSANCE PERIOD

      JOHN WYCLIF (1324-1384)

      THE PREACHING OF WYCLIF

      REFORMATION PREACHING

      MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1536)

      THE PREACHING OF LUTHER

      JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564)

      THE PREACHING OF CALVIN

      LUTHER AND CALVIN

      THE CATHOLIC REFORM

      POST REFORMATION PREACHING

      JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791)

      THE PREACHING OF JOHN WESLEY

      GEORGE WHITEFIELD

      (1714-1770)

      THE PREACHING OF GEORGE

      WHITEFIELD (1741-1770)

      CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

      (1834-1892)

      THE PREACHING OF CHARLES SPURGEON (1850-1892)

      PREACHING IN AMERICA

      JONATHAN EDWARDS

      (1703-1758)

      THE PREACHING OF JONATHAN EDWARDS

      CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY

      (1792-1875)

      THE PREACHING OF CHARLES FINNEY

      HENRY WARD BEECHER

      (1813-1887)

      THE PREACHING OF HENRY WARD BEECHER

      PHILLIPS BROOKS

      (1835-1893)

      THE PREACHING OF PHILLIPS BROOKS

      DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY

      (1837-1899)

      THE PREACHING OF DWIGHT L. MOODY

      GEORGE WASHINGTON TRUETT

      (1867-1944)

      THE PREACHING OF GEORGE W. TRUETT

      HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK (1878-1969)

      THE PEACHING OF HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

      CLARENCE EDWARD MACARTNEY

      (1879-1957)

      THE PREACHING OF CLARENCE MACARTNEY

      CLOVIS GILLHAM CHAPPELL

      (1882-1972)

      THE PREACHING OF CLOVIS CHAPPELL

      GEORGE ARTHUR BUTTRICK

      (1892-1980)

      THE PREACHING OF GEORGE BUTTRICK

      CONTEMPORARY PREACHING

      WILLIAM FRANKLIN GRAHAM (1918 )

      EARLY DAYS

      EARLY MINISTRY

      THE CRUSADES

      AN EXPANDED MINISTRY

      THE PREACHING OF BILLY GRAHAM

      MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

      THE PREACHING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to the memory of my pastors.

      Edward Wilkins was my first pastor. He is the pastor who baptized me into the membership of the Floyd Baptist Church in rural central Alabama in 1947. I shall never forget the morning when he took me out under an old oak tree in the churchyard and talked to me about being saved. It was in the evening service after that conversation that I made my decision to give my heart to Jesus. It was a decision that I have never regretted.

      Maxwell Harper was the pastor of the Verbena Baptist Church when my Dad decided to quit farming and take a job as a carpenter in Montgomery. Consequently, we moved from the farm into the little village of Verbena. Brother Harper was a student at Howard College in Birmingham while he was the pastor of the Verbena church.

      George Brown was my pastor for a very short time. All I can remember about him is his son, Sam, who lived with my family and me for a while so he could enroll in the Verbena school and not have to transfer in the middle of the school year. Sam and I have continued to be friends through the years.

      Dr. Lee Gallman was the pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Montgomery when my parents and I moved from Verbena to Montgomery. He was the first seminary trained pastor I ever knew. He remained my friend even after he left Second Baptist Church.

      Kelly Johnson was the pastor at Second Baptist Church when I made the decision to preach. He encouraged me in that decision and gave me my first opportunity to preach. He was also my pastor when I was ordained to the ministry in 1953.

      Dr. Bronnie E. Nichols was my pastor and my boss when I served as associate pastor of the Forest Lake Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I have often said that I got my degrees from Howard College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, but I got my education in ministry while working with Dr. Nichols at Forest Lake.

      I am grateful for all of my pastors, including my current pastor, Dr. Paul Strahan, at the First Baptist Church of Owensboro, Kentucky. They have all contributed to my life and my work as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

      T. A. Prickett

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      My initial motivation to write this historical story of preaching came to me when I was asked to develop a seminar on preaching for the Newburg Seminary in Newburg, Indiana. However, through circumstances beyond my control, I was not able to lead the seminar. After doing all the work and not being able to use the material as planned, I thought there must be a way to take advantage of all the work that I put into the seminar preparation. So I came upon the idea of putting the work on the seminar in a book, and this is that book.

      However, since in the beginning, I had no idea of publishing this material, I did not take the painstaking time to footnote the material. Therefore, I want to give acknowledge the sources to which I turned in preparing this material:

      •   Lectures on the History of Preaching by John A. Broadus

      •   A History of Preaching by Edwin Charles Dargan

      •   A History of Preaching by O. C. Edwards, Jr

      •   Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching by Clyde E. Fant, Jr and William M. Pinson, Jr.

      •   Great Evangelical Preachers of Yesterday, by James McGraw

      •   A Concise History of Preaching by Paul Scott Wilson

      •   The Interpreter’s Bible edited by George Buttrick

      •   The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible edited by George Buttrick

      Further details about these sources can be found under Bibliography in the back of this book.

      I must also acknowledge the assistance of my wife, Martha, in the preparation of this material. Without her help this work would still be in the making. She has not only helped me to find the errors in it, but she has also encouraged me to finish it instead of putting it on the shelf for a latter time.

      I would also like to thank my daughter, Panda Prickett Krouse, for the gitf of her artistic hand in designing the front cover.

      T. A. Prickett

      PREFACE

      This material was first gather together in an effort to lead a seminar on the history of preaching. However, my motivation in publishing this material is not to write another history of preaching.

      This then is not a history of preaching. It is not a critique of preaching through the ages. It is not a survey of preaching through the ages; and it is not a synopsis of preaching through the ages. It is an abbreviated analysis of preaching through the ages or of the preacher and the issues of their time. It is the story of preaching and preachers through out the ages.

      It is my prayer that as you read these words of mine you will be challenged to be the best preacher you can be. It is also my hope that you will gain a great appreciation of the preachers who have gone before you; and just maybe this appreciation will lead you to face the issues of today in a positive and forceful manner as these preachers who have gone before you did.

      God bless!

      T. A. Prickett

      WHAT IS PREACHING

      Before we begin thinking about the story of preaching, I think it would be in order to ask, what is preaching? If we are to be serious in our study of preaching, we need to be sure we understand what we mean by preaching.

      To preach means to make a proclamation as a herald. A herald (preacher) is a public messenger who lifts up his voice and claims public attention to some definite news he has to announce. Christian preaching is the public proclamation of the good news, i.e. the gospel of Jesus Christ to the non-Christian world. Yet there is a difference between

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