Jesus bids his disciples to follow him. This invokes life as a journey, imparts an understanding of human nature, and provides a vision of human destiny that culminates in ultimate community. Jesus bids his disciples to follow him while living in cultures that instead are inwardly framed on the what is termed freedom and increasingly …
Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon wrote Resident Aliens in 1989. Their analysis of both Christian and secular culture continues to be insightful and useful. If the situations appear to have changed in the thirty something years that have passed, it is only that they have increased and strengthened, not that courses have altered. Here they …
The sermon is human speech and divine communication. The imperfections and limitations of the speakers bring us to understand that any fruit is due to the presence of the risen Christ who is the word. …whereas our voices fail, crack under the strain and fade, ricochet off the walls of the church and die, the …
A biblical sermon is God communicating with humanity. The words are completely human. And yet God is active. In preaching, God solicits our participation in communication, utilising preachers to draw the world into conversation. No sermon is immaculately conceived; it’s words of a thoroughly human preacher delivered in the name of the same relentlessly redemptive …
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