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 …
At MGPC we’re setting out on making our way through Jeremiah on Sunday nights. This follows on from Psalms and John’s Gospel. Graeme Goldsworthy identifies the Gospel in Jeremiah. We should not be put off by Jeremiah’s reputation as the gloomy or “weeping” prophet. He has much encouragement to offer the faithful. To be sure, …
Jack Lundbom’s magisterial commentary on Jeremiah is living up to its promise. On God’s call and Jeremiah’s response in Chapter 1: Yahweh begins the present dialogue in grand hyperbole. He says he knew Jeremiah before he was formed in the belly of his mother; that a consecration took place before he was born; and at …
The beginning of Gospel proclamation was not eye-witnesses trying to convince those who had not seen, but one group of eye-witnesses seeking to help other eye-witnesses understand what they all had seen. Even as Gospel proclamation continued on it was grounded in events that had happened and been seen and experienced. From Dale Ralph Davis: …
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