Luminescence, Volume 1

The Sermons of C. K. and Fred Barrett

C. K. Barrett, Fred Barrett, Ben Witherington

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781498299602
• eBook ISBN: 9781498299596
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

What is found in this series unveils an entirely different side of C. K. Barrett, a side one might never have known about if one had knowledge only of his famous commentaries and monographs. Herein lies a goodly selection of Kingsley's sermons preached largely in small- and medium-sized Methodist churches in the northeast of England, though often elsewhere in England and around the world.Fred Barrett was not the scholar his son was, but on close inspection, one can most definitely see the impact of the father on the son when it came to preaching.It seems rightto include as many sermons from both of these men as we can in this series. One thing sorely lacking in much preaching these days is in-depth engagement with both the biblical text and one's tradition and theology. The sermons in these volumes demonstrate what such preaching can look like.This first volume presents 100 sermons on the Gospels and Acts.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Memento Mori by Ben Witherington, III
• Foreword by Penelope Barrett Hyslop
• “THE PURPOSE OF THE BIBLE”—John 20.31
• “DOUBTFUL ANCESTRY”—Matthew 1.3–6
• “JESUS: FOR HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE”—Matthew 1.21
• “IMMANUEL”—Matthew 1.22–23
• “TROUBLED AT CHRISTMAS”—Matthew 2.3
• “THE WISE MEN”—Matthew 2.11
• “A SHOCKING CHAPTER”—Matthew 3
• “BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN”—Matthew 5.4 (A Funeral Sermon)
• “NOT TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL”—Matthew 5.17
• “YOU SHALL BE PERFECT”—Matthew 5.48
• “OUR FATHER”—Matthew 6.9
• “THE NARROW WAY”—Matthew 7.13–14
• “FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE”—Matthew 10.8
• “FRIEND OF SINNERS”—Matthew 11.18–19
• “PETER AND THE CHURCH”—Matthew 16.17–19
• “THE KING ON AN ASS”—Matthew 21.5
• “THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN”—Matthew 21.33–46
• “THE MARRIAGE FEAST”—Matthew 22.1–10
• “THE FEAST”—Matthew 22.1–10
• “THE TEN VIRGINS”—Matthew 25.1–13
• “THE TALENTS”—Matthew 25.14–30
• “JUDAS, PILATE, AND HIS WIFE”—Matthew 27.3–5
• “PRESENCE AND COMMISSION”—Matthew 28.16–20
• “JESUS THE TEACHER”—Mark 4.11,12
• “THE STORM ON THE LAKE”—Mark 4.35–41
• “JAIRUS’ DAUGHTER”—Mark 5.21–24, 35–43
• “THE SON OF MAN MUST SUFFER”—Mark 8.31
• “THE TRANSFIGURATION”—Mark 9.7
• “CHRIST’S REVERSAL OF VALUES”—Mark 10.45
• “THE COVENANT”—Mark 14.24/Jeremiah 31.31–34
• “THE SOLITUDE OF JESUS”—Mark 14.50
• “THE LONELINESS OF JESUS”—Mark 14.50
• “PETER’S DENIAL”—Mark 14.66–72
• “THE MOCKING OF JESUS”—Mark 15.29–32
• “WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”—Mark 15.34
• “THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE”—Mark 15.37–38
• “THE UNDERSTANDING CENTURION”—Mark 15.39
• “A PREPARED PEOPLE”—Luke 1.7
• “GLORY TO GOD”—Luke 2.8–14
• “GLORIA”—Luke 2.14/John 1.29
• “THE RETURN OF THE SHEPHERDS”—Luke 2.20
• “SIMEON’S PROPHECY”—Luke 2.34–35
• “CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CHILDREN?”—Luke 2.40
• “THE TWO BUILDERS”—Luke 6.47–49
• “PRAYER”—Luke 11.1–13
• “I CAME TO CAST FIRE ON THE EARTH”—Luke 12.49
• “SENTIMENTALITY AND PIETISM”—Luke 11.27 and 14.15–16
• “AND ITS OBLIGATIONS”—Luke 14.28–30
• “THE LOST SHEEP”—Luke 15.4–7
• “THE PRODIGAL SON”—Luke 15.11–32
• “LOST, SOUGHT, SAVED”—Luke 19.10
• “FATHER FORGIVE THEM”—Luke 23.34
• “THE DYING THIEF”—Luke 23.42–43
• “CHRIST, LIVING OR DEAD”—Luke 24.5–6
• “SUFFERING AND GLORY”—Luke 24.25–26
• “UNCOMPREHENDING DARKNESS”—John 1.5
• “HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT”—John 1.10–13
• “THE WORD BECAME FLESH”—John 1.14
• “NO ONE HAS SEEN GOD”—John 1.18
• “THE END IN TIME”—John 1.14
• “THE DEATH OF CHRIST —SACRIFICE”—John 1.29
• “THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE”—John 2.13–22
• “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN”—John 3.3–7
• “BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT”—John 3.5
• “THE SERPENT IN THE WILDERNESS”—John 3.14–15
• “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD”—John 3.16
• “JESUS AT JACOB’S WELL”—John 4.13–14
• “THE WORKS OF GOD”—John 6.28–29
• “THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD”—John 8.12
• “KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH, AND FREEDOM”—John 8.32
• “CHRISTIAN FREEDOM”—John 8.36
• “THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE”—John 10.10
• “CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT”—John 12.20–36
• “TO MAKE US GOOD”—John 13.1–30
• “THE TRUE VINE”—John 15.5
• “DESENTIMENTALIZED LOVE”—John 15.9–11, 17
• “SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND JUDGMENT”—John 16.8–11
• “ETERNAL LIFE”—John 17.3
• “WHAT IS TRUTH?”—John 18.37–38
• “NOT THIS MAN, BUT BARABBAS”—John 18.40
• “HEBREW, LATIN, AND GREEK”—John 19.20
• “IT IS FINISHED”—John 19.30
• “THE CHURCH’S MISSION”—John 20.21
• “THE PRINT OF THE NAILS”—John 20.27
• “JESUS STOOD ON THE BEACH”—John 21.4
• “PASTOR AND WITNESS”—John 21.15–25
• “THE VOCATION AND LIMITATION OF THE CHURCH”—Acts 1.7–9
• “THE ASCENSION”—Acts 1.9–11
• “PETER’S PREACHING OF THE RESURRECTION”—Acts 2.22–24
• “MARKS OF THE CHURCH”—Acts 2.42
• “THE PRAYER OF THE EARLY CHURCH”—Acts 4.24–30
• “STEPHEN AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD”—Acts 7.51–53
• “WHY PERSECUTETH THOU ME?”—Acts 9.4
• “PAUL IN ASIA MINOR”—Acts 13.44–50
• “SALVATION”—Acts 16.31
• “PAUL AT ATHENS”—Acts 17.30–31
• “PAUL AND THE CHURCH”—Acts 18.1–11
• “CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL”—Acts 22.8–10
• “THE INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS”—Acts 26.18
• “THE HEAVENLY VISION”—Acts 26.19
• “TESTIFYING TO SMALL AND GREAT”—Acts 26.22–23
• “HELP FOR THE WITNESSES”—Acts 26.22–23