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Jesus' Radical Message: Subversive Sermons for Today's Seekers
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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Jesus' Radical Message: Subversive Sermons for Today's Seekers
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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Jesus' Radical Message: Subversive Sermons for Today's Seekers

Jesus' Radical Message: Subversive Sermons for Today's Seekers

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Jesus' Radical Message: Subversive Sermons for Today's Seekers

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498272223
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 01/11/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 172
File size: 840 KB

About the Author

Z Holler, a retired Presbyterian pastor, is a co-founder of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. He served as co-chair for the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project.

Table of Contents

Foreword Nelson N. Johnson ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

About the Interpreter xxi

A Summary of the Contents xxxvii

1 The Beginning of the Gospel: John's Bad News Luke 3:1-20 1

2 Jesus' Temptations-and Ours Luke 4:1-13 8

3 Jesus Enrages the Home Folks Luke 4:16-30 15

4 "Let Us Go Across to the Other Side" Mark 4:35-41, Jonah 1:1-17 22

5 Jesus' Tough Love Mark 10:17-31 30

6 A Crooked Manager? Luke 16:1-9 36

7 Community-building Economics Matthew 20:1-15 and Exodus 16:2-20 43

8 Jesus Speaks to the "Neighbor Problem" Luke 10:25-37 51

9 A Call to Live Jesus' "Impossible Possibility" Matthew 5:38-45 57

10 A Prince of Peace Who Disturbs Our Peace? Luke 12:49-56 65

11 Tempted to Cop Out? Pray Always! Luke 18:1-8 71

12 Jesus' Lonesome Valley-and Ours Luke 19:28-44, Isaiah 50:4-11 77

13 A Vulnerable, Suffering God Mark 15:34 83

14 Jesus' Resurrection Makes All the Difference Luke 24:1-12, Acts 10:34-43 89

15 Jesus' Way with the Alienated John 21:15-19 95

16 About Our Meetings with Jesus John 3:1-16 100

17 Surprised? Matthew 25:31-46 106

18 Does It Still Make Sense? John 1:1-14 111

19 God Frees Us for Beloved Community Exodus 3:1-12 118

Appendix 1 The Beloved Community Center: Statement of Commitment 127

Appendix 2 The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro: Statement of Purpose 129

Appendix 3 A Plea to the Christian Churches of Greensboro 130

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