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Making a By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, 48 pp. $5.00 plus
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Kierkegaard’s Year 2005
(2005). By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, 45 pp. $5.00 plus
postage & handling. Dr. Robert L.
Perkins, editor of the multi-volume International
Kierkegaard Commentary, has said of this booklet: “It is just
wonderful – just the way Kierkegaard would want to be remembered”
(December 29, 2005). Kierkegaard’s Year 2005
collects 15 articles Pastor Marshall wrote for the Sesquicentennial
(1855-2005) of Kierkegaard’s death in The
Messenger: The Newsletter of First Lutheran Church of West Seattle,
plus his annual report on Kierkegaard’s view of hymns, his sermon and
tribute for the Anniversary day on November 13, 2005, and his review of
Joakim Garff’s biography reprinted from Lutheran
Forum (Fall 2005). These
collected articles cover Kierkegaard’s understanding of the Bible,
Holy Baptism, evangelism, the church, discipleship, sin, suffering,
salvation, love, self-denial and peace.
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Kierkegaard on Preaching for Salvation
(2004) By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, 39 pp. $5.00 plus
postage & handling What sort of
sermons would Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) have liked? In this booklet
Pastor Marshall sets out to answer this question by outlining what he
thinks Kierkegaard would have expected a sermon to say and
the manner in which it should have been said. At the end
Pastor Marshall provides what he calls “an echo of a sermon” to
illustrate the two point this booklet makes. This booklet
begins with four prefaces on preaching, explaining why it should always
be fraught with danger. This would be
an excellent booklet for adult Sunday Classes and pastors’ Text Study
groups.
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A Christian Battle Manual: An Unexpected
Reclamation of
the Book of By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, 63 pp. $5.00 plus
postage & handling. This booklet
is three in one. First it is a study of The Book of Judges. In this
study some 83 military offensive strategies are explored from Judges.
Secondly, and most importantly, it is a study of 1 Timothy 6.12,
“Fight the good fight of faith.”
In this study these military strategies are transformed from the
battlefield into the heart of the believer for the battle against
temptation and sin. Finally in
the over 75 detailed, extended footnotes, a history of warfare is
explored to test out whether or not these strategies gleaned for the
Book of Judges for the church are naïve or not. This is an
important book for all Christians to study. It would make a good
devotion for extended meditation in silence. After that, it could also serve
as a good discussion-starter for those who had first done the silent
mediation on its many Biblical texts and classical excerpts.
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The
Fatal Vice: Standards for Judging Lutheran Pastors
(2006). By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, 53 pp. $5.00 plus
postage & handling. The last
generation or so of American Protestant congregations has taken on the
responsibility of evaluating their pastors. This has been mostly
disastrous. Why? Because no agreed upon standards have been used in
doing these reviews. So what has happened is about as silly as judging
carpenters by what would make for good librarians. Each vocation must
have its own set of standards indigenous to it. Without that set of
standards in
hand, every pastoral review going on today – no matter how well
meaning – will be horrible. For you can’t judge pastors, for instance, by the
standards suitable for coaches or sales reps. In The
Fatal Vice Pastor Marshall tries to rectify this situation. He
provides a set of ten standards for judging Lutheran pastors – gleaned
from the Lutheran Confessions and from Luther’s Works. He also
provides a format for conducting a review based on these ten standards –
providing forms covering eight areas of pastoral responsibility. A
controversial part of these forms is the requirement for personal disclosures on the
part of those reviewing the pastor. This booklet
would especially be of interest to all pastors and parish personnel
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Christianity Run Amuck
(2003) By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, 24 pp. $3.00 plus
postage & handling This booklet
is a refutation the ELCA Pastor Terry Kyllo’s argument that sin is not
as serious as historic Christianity says it is, and that Jesus’ death
on the cross does not save us from the wrath of God as historic
Christianity also says it does. How amazing
it is that ELCA pastors are free to violate their ordination vows and
preach whatever they think will make people happy. One would think that
the bishops of the church would stop such terrible, faithless instruction. Into that
breach this booklet fires its Biblical and Confessional salvos into the side of Pastor Kyllo’s
wayward teaching. In the process it
summarizes handily in one spot what matters most about sin and
salvation in the For that
reason it is something of an ad hoc catechism and should be of interest
to any Lutheran – regardless of what they think of Pastor Kyllo’s
wobegone booklet.
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Deo Gloria: A History of First Lutheran By the Rev.
Ronald F. Marshall, i-xxi, 102 pp. $25.00 plus
postage & handling (limited edition) This history
of First Lutheran Church of West Seattle does three things. First it
gives a chronology of this congregation's history. Next it explores in
original period photographs and documents and memoirs, interesting features
in that
history, e.g. the pastors, the property, and church music. Finally it
assembles other’s research. It opens with an eight-page history of the
Christian Church in Of this
history book, Dr. James W. Alber, president of the Lutheran
Historical Conference has written: “It is extraordinarily well done and
in many respects unique…. I am sure that it will be a valuable
resource, not only for [First Lutheran Church of West Seattle],… but also for future historians to
gain a glimpse into the excitement that has occurred in [First Lutheran
Church] and
in the
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