Preaching and professing : sermons by a teacher seeking to proclaim the Gospel /
Wood, Ralph C.
Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Cambridge : William B. Eerdmans Pub.,
2009.
Preaching and hearing -- Introduction: The primacy of preaching in Protestant worship -- Be hearers of the Word and not doers only -- The minister as parson, preacher, and pastor -- Hearing the voice of God -- The church -- "Compel them to come in" : the Gospel as divine command, not consumer choice -- The world's heroes and the church's saints -- A call for a latter-day reformation of the church -- Wrestling Jacob and being named by God -- Suffering and service -- The no-people who have become God's people -- The call of the crucified -- The suffering that makes for character -- Christians as the little ones, the hobbits of the world -- A farewell sermon to a faithful people -- The rock that springs with the water of life -- Doctrine and the moral life -- Christians and Jews : wayfarers through the wasteland -- The scandal of our redemption -- Loud, dogmatic, and certain : good Christian words -- Thou shalt not slay either bodies or souls -- Hurrying toward hell -- Baptism in a coffin -- The Christian year -- Waiting, watching, and enduring to the end -- Jesus as both Savior and Lord -- Hosanna to the King who rides upon a donkey -- This cup -- The call of the cross and the table -- Unwearied hearts ascend -- The vocations of ministry and marriage -- A fiery red-head called to the ministry of word and sacrament -- A rock breaker and a stone builder -- The redeeming comedy of marriage -- A latter-day Rachel and Jacob -- A marriage built on the solid rock -- An unhaloed Mississippian saint -- A man of godly fear and suffering obedience -- Feasting on manna and turnip greens -- A grotesque act of repentance -- A woman whose name and life sparkled -- A teacher who demanded pandemonium -- A man alive while dying -- A woman who waited for the Lord God -- A fearless and funny preacher of the Gospel.
Sermons, American.