A sermon conclusion that gives the impression that engagement with the text has been completed and implies that all that remains is a series of steps which the preacher has discerned and provided doesn’t invite ongoing engagement with the text. A conclusion is not the end of the conversation with the text, it is the …
In Preaching Jeremiah Walter Brueggemann seeks to ground preaching in the context of Biblical communication. This is not so much stylistic, but rather a recognition that relying on literary artifice to build a bridge between speaker and hearers softens the reality that the proclamation of God’s kingdom is a “word from beyond”. …sermons do not …
Preaching Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann is a monograph that is about both sermon construction and the biblical book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah as a canonical book of Scripture is a collation of material that serves as a unified message, a sermon. So the Brueggemann’s book is both about a book, and about the craft of the …
The notion that if you do what you love you never work contributes to a burnout culture. The idea that work is performed by a motivation of love for the position, or desire to be associated with a company or working environment that has some form of status cultivates an environment where compensation or being …
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