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Samuel Moor Shoemaker, III

1893-1963

Compiled by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown
Retired Bishop of Malaita, Anglican Church of Melanesia


I Stand by the Door: The Life of Sam Shoemaker.
By Helen Smith Shoemaker.
New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

The Breeze of the Spirit: Sam Shoemaker and the Story of Faith at Work.
New York: Seabury, 1978.

New Light on Alcoholism: The A.A. Legacy from Sam Shoemaker, by Dick B.
Corte Madera, CA: Good Book Publishing, 1994.

New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A., by Dick B.
Kihei, Maui, HI: Paradise Research Publications, 1999.


The James Houston Eccleston Day-Book: Containing a Short Account of His Life, and Readings for Every Day of the Year Chosen from His Sermons.
New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1915. [External link]

Realizing Religion.
New York: Association Press, 1921.

A Young Man’s View of the Ministry.
New York: Association Press, 1923.

One Boy’s Influence.
New York: Association Press, 1925.

What is the Matter with the Church?
New York: No publisher, 1925.

Children of the Second Birth: Being a Narrative of Spiritual Miracles in a City Parish.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1927.

Religion That Works: Sermons of Practical Christian Life.
New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1928.

A Parson Answers a Bishop.
Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1928.

Producing Spiritual Vitality.
Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1928.

The Breadth and Narrowness of the Gospel: Two Sermons Preached in Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1929.

Jesus Christ and Mental Health.
Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1929.

Twice-Born Ministers.
New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1929.

If I Be Lifted Up: Thoughts about the Cross.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1931

重生的基督徒 / Chong sheng de Jidu tu.
[Chinese translation of Children of the Second Birth.]
廣學會, Shanghai: Guang xue hui, 1931.

Religion der Wirklichkeit.
[German translation of Realizing Religion.]
Gotha: Klotz, 1932.

Confident Faith.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1932.

Christ’s Words from the Cross.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1933.

The Conversion of the Church.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1933.

The Gospel According to You, and Other Sermons.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1934.

Skal Kirken Omvende Sig?
[Danish translation of The Conversion of the Church.]
No place: Haase, 1934.

De Herboren Kerk.
[Dutch translation of The Conversion of the Church.]
Amsterdam: H.J. Paris, 1935.

重生的牧師 / Chong sheng de mu shi.
[Chinese translation of Twice-Born Ministers.]
廣學會, Shanghai: Guang xue hui, [1935].

Introduction to The Venture of Belief: A Letter [from N.S.D. to T.H.S.]
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1935.

Calvary Church, Yesterday and Today; a Centennial History.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1936.

National Awakening.
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1936.

En Ik Zal Allen tot Mij Trekken.
[Dutch translation of If I Be Lifted Up.]
Amsterdam: H.J. Paris, 1936.

教会の悔改 / Kyōkai no kaikai.
[Japanese translation of The Conversion of the Church.]
日曜世界社, Ōsaka: Nichiyō Sekaisha, Shōwa 11 [1936].

Church Has the Answer: Preached in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, October 19, 1937.
New York: Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1937.

Who Follows in Their Train? Memorial Service to Canon and Mrs. Streeter.
Calvary Evangel, Vol. 50(10), October 1937, pp. 201-213.

How God Used One Woman: Sermon Delivered April 25, 1937, in New York City.
[Mount Berry, GA]: [Berry Schools Press], [1937?].

The Church Can Save the World.
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1938.

God’s Control.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1939.

God and America.
New York: No publisher, [1940].

Total Defense for Freedom.
New York (?): No publisher, [1941].

How to Help People.
Sharon, PA: Forward Movement Publications, 1942.

Christ and This Crisis.
New York and London: Fleming H. Revell, 1943.

How You Can Help Other People.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1946.

Living Your Life Today.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1947.

How You Can Find Happiness.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947.

Revive Thy Church, Beginning with Me.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948.

Freedom and Faith.
New York: F.H. Revell, 1949.

Address Delivered at the Graduation Exercises of St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, at 4 P.M. on Thursday, May 19, 1949 on the Topic: "Spiritual Relationship with Patients."
New York: no publisher, 1949.

The Church Alive.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950.

Gelukkig Worden.
[Dutch translation of How You Can Find Happiness.]
Den Haag: Kruseman, [ca. 1950].

Gott und Frieden.
[German: God and Peace.]
[Stuttgart]: Kohlhammer, [ca. 1950].

Creating Christian Community.
[New York]: No publisher, [before 1952].

They're on the Way: Modern Spiritual Experiences.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1951.

Dealing with Individuals: The Basis of All Evangelism. [Sound recording]
Recorded at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York at the Pre-assembly Conference on Evangelism of the 164th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., May 21, 1952.

How to Become a Christina.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953.

By the Power of God.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954.

"Act As If--": the First Step Toward Faith.
Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest Association, October 1954.

What About the Hereafter? [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1957.

Faith Can Come to You. [Radio Recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1957.

What Is Your Greatest Need? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

Let More Come Through. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1957.

Christ, the Parson, and Prayer.
Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 8(7), October 1957, pp. 27-32.

Who is Jesus Christ? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

How to Begin a Christian Experience. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

How to Continue a Christian Experience. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

The Resurrection: Fact, Mode, and Meaning. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

One Thing That’s Up to You. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1957.

The Law of Sacrifice. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

Can We Find Joy? [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1957.

Are Your Prayers Real? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

The Sin of Others. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1957.

How You Can Win Others to Christ. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

What Is the Christian Religion? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

The Experiment of Faith: a Handbook for Beginners.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957.

Christians Awake. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Centre, 1957.

How to Make Your Daily Work Serve God. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1957.

What Shall I Do, Lord? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

Skeptic, Lend Me Your Ear. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

So I Stand by the Door and Other Verses.
No place: No publisher, 1958.

Three Levels of Life. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

Jesus’ Temptation and Ours. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

The Sin of Pride. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

Other People’s Sins. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

What Do You Do When Your Raft Comes Apart? [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1958.

Eternal Life in Christ. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

What the Church Has to Learn from Alcoholics Anonymous.
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1958.

What the Church Has to Learn from the Evangelists.
Pittsburgh: Calvary Church, [1958?].

How to Pray.
Pawling, NY: Foundation for Christian Living, 1958.

[Editor] Faith at Work.
New York: Hawthorn Books, [1958].

With the Holy Spirit and With Fire.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960.

Your God, Dogmatic or Dynamic? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

Broken by Choice. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

Danger Ahead Unless… [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

How to Find God.
New York: Faith at Work, 1960.

The World and the Church Today. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

Jesus Christ and Mental Health. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.
Christian Living. [Recording and booklet]
Winter Park, FL: Bible Reading Fellowship, [1960?].

How Can We Implement Our World Concern? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

Treason of Casual Christians. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

What Shall I Do with Him? [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes. [Radio recording]
Atlanta: Protestant Radio and Television Center, 1960.

So You’re Self-Sufficient and Don’t Need God. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1962.

You Make Your Own Heaven or Hell. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1962.

Christ Asks for a Verdict. [Radio recoding]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1962.

Four Sermons. [Sound recording]
Waco, TX: Word Records, [1962?]

Time for Plain Speaking. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1962.

People Under Conviction. [Radio recording]
New York: Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 1962.

Beginning Your Ministry.
New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

Two Sermons. [Sound recording]
Waco, TX: Word Records, 1963.

Sam Shoemaker at his Best: Extraordinary Living for the Ordinary Man: Writings Selected by his Daughter, Helen Shoemaker Rea, and the Staff of Faith at Work..
New York: Faith at Work, 1964.

Under New Management.
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966.

経営者は変った : 人生に働かれる聖霊 / 経営者は変った : 人生に働かれる聖霊 /
Keieisha wa kawatta.
[Japanese translation of Under New Management.]
No place: いのちのことば社, no date.

Suppose He Did Come Back? [Sound recording]
Waco, TX: Word Records, 1966.

Charismatic People. [Sound recording]
Waco, TX: Word Records, 1966.

What’ll I Do About My Life? [Sound recording]
Waco, TX: Word Records, 1966.

What Shall We Do with Trouble? [Sound recording]
Waco, TX: Word Records, 1966.

And Thy neighbor: Sam Shoemaker; Talk[s] about Creative Living.
Waco, TX: Word Books, 1967.

Reality of Prayer. [Sound recording]
Winter Park, FL: Bible Reading Fellowship, 197-.

Can Our Kind of Church Change Our Kind of World? [and] What About Christian unity? [Sound recording.
Atlanta: Forum House, 1972.

The Moment of Insight [and] What Shall We Do with Trouble? [Sound recording]
Atlanta: Forum House, 1972.

Steps of a Modern Disciple.
Atlanta: Lay Renewal Publications, 1972.

In the Spirit [and] Another Approach to Conversion. [Sound recording]
Atlanta: Forum House, 1972.

God’s Instrumental People. [Sound recording]
Winter Park, FL: Bible Reading Fellowship, [1973?].

Lord Teach Us to Pray.
Pawling, NY: Foundation for Christian Living, 1977.

The Meaning of Baptism: Sermon Originally Delivered Jan. 10, 1954 at Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. [edited by H.L. Hoffman].
No place: No publisher, [1984].

Courage to Change: the Christian Roots of the Twelve-Step Movement: Selections from the Writings of Samuel M. Shoemaker, compiled by Bill Pittman and Dick B.
Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1994.

Three Levels of Life: A Sermon.
No place: Oxford Group, no date.

What If I Had But One Sermon to Preach?
No place: Oxford Group, no date.

Gems for Thought. [Radio sermon transcripts]
New York: American Broadcasting Company, no date.


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