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

Description: Todays technology offers thousands of applications--apps--to solve problems and to enhance lives. Whether its making major financial decisions or planning a dinner menu--theres an app for that! When it comes to dealing with lifes 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 Gods 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 authors 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! Endorsements: [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 Gods 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. Im 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 Sids years of reflection on Gods 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 lifes countless challenges . . . Each page carefully reminds us of the good news in Jesus Christ--God is truly for us. --Joseph Scrivner University Professor About the Contributor(s): 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.