Asserting that keeping secrets can lead to a kind of sickness, Strawn uses texts from the Pentateuch and the Psalms to model honesty about sin, without which there can be no reconciliation, and honesty about suffering, without which there can be no healing. He also looks at the book of Joshua and various psalms to model honesty about violence, which can serve as a way to contain, limit, and ultimately transcend violence.
Strawn frames these themes specifically for working preachers, so they can create sermons that speak to these thorny themes with depth and clarity.
Asserting that keeping secrets can lead to a kind of sickness, Strawn uses texts from the Pentateuch and the Psalms to model honesty about sin, without which there can be no reconciliation, and honesty about suffering, without which there can be no healing. He also looks at the book of Joshua and various psalms to model honesty about violence, which can serve as a way to contain, limit, and ultimately transcend violence.
Strawn frames these themes specifically for working preachers, so they can create sermons that speak to these thorny themes with depth and clarity.
Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence
232Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence
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ISBN-13: | 9781506461267 |
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Publisher: | 1517 Media |
Publication date: | 12/07/2021 |
Series: | Working Preacher , #7 |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d) |