
- 172 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Traditional preaching, along with the mainline churches in which it has been most prevalent over the years, is losing its appeal for growing numbers of people who are caught up in the dangers and confusion of our fragmented world. Many are hungering for a more powerful and challenging message rooted in Jesus' life and teachings, seeking clues about how to live faithfully amid the destructive social and personal pressures created by our nation's exploitation of its position of global dominance. The sermons in this volume emerge from the conversion story of a Southern, white, Presbyterian pastor who was transformed by the civil rights struggle and who has chosen to live on the boundary between mainstream and marginalized people. Rooted in an understanding that Jesus' gospel message is subversive of many of the dominant values and practices of our culture and our world today, they are intended to be disturbing sermons. But they disturb for the sake of healing and hope, always pointing to Jesus' good news of the liberating possibility of beloved community, inclusive of us all.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- About the Interpreter
- A Summary of the Contents
- Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Gospel: Johnâs Bad News
- Chapter 2: Jesusâ Temptationsâand Ours
- Chapter 3: Jesus Enrages the Home Folks
- Chapter 4: âLet Us Go Across to the Other Sideâ
- Chapter 5: Jesusâ Tough Love
- Chapter 6: A Crooked Manager?
- Chapter 7: Community-building Economics
- Chapter 8: Jesus Speaks to the âNeighbor Problemâ
- Chapter 9: A Call to Live Jesusâ âImpossible Possibilityâ
- Chapter 10: A Prince of Peace Who Disturbs Our Peace?
- Chapter 11: Tempted to Cop Out? Pray Always!
- Chapter 12: Jesusâ Lonesome Valleyâand Ours
- Chapter 13: A Vulnerable, Suffering God
- Chapter 14: Jesusâ Resurrection Makes All the Difference
- Chapter 15: Jesusâ Way with the Alienated
- Chapter 16: About Our Meetings with Jesus
- Chapter 17: Surprised?
- Chapter 18: Does It Still Make Sense?
- Chapter 19: God Frees Us for Beloved Community
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3