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ISBN-13: 9780761866527
ISBN-10: 0761866523
Pagini: 372
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-10: 0761866523
Pagini: 372
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Notă biografică
By Fred R. Zimmerman
Cuprins
ABRAHAM His Trust in God¿s Promise
ADVENT SEASON As God¿s Offer of Grace
ALTAR As Furniture of Worship Made Holy by God
ASCENSION As Fulfillment of the Incarnation Jesus Christ Is Now Lord in Heaven as on Earth
AUTHORITY Of Jesus as Given, Not Proven
BAPTISM As God¿s Promise to Us of His Gospel
BIBLE
As Comfort Amidst Conflict
As Inward Confrontation
Genesis¿The Book of Beginnings
Holy Spirit as Its Only True Interpreter
Speaks of God in His Sovereignty
Upfront about Human Wrongdoing
BURDEN Of Daily Life Endured as Rest under the Yoke of Christ Of Our Humanity Overcome by Christ
CHRISTIAN EXISTENCE
As Conflict of Flesh and Spirit
As a Fruitful Branch of the True Vine
As Growth in the Grace of Christ
As Living with Christ
As a Pilgrimage, Not a Tourist Site
As the Call to Freedom
As True in a Hidden Belonging
Exercised in Commitment
Keeping Alert to Being IN Christ
Learned in the Cradle of Forgiveness
Letting God-in-Christ Fulfill His Purpose for You
Not Defined by Human Standards
CHRISTIANITY
As Limited to the Golden Rule¿St. Luke 6:31
As Merely Religious Summons
Customary Versions of
CHRIST JESUS
As Being Surprised by Him
As Guest in Our Home
As Light that Overcomes Darkness
As Our Eternal Contemporary
As Reality of God¿s Word
Baptized by John the Baptist
Daily Rebirth in
Demonstrates the Wideness of God¿s Love
Friendship of
His Consummate Word from the Cross
His Entry into the Dominion of Death
His Love the Basis of Family Care
In Being Beyond Our Knowing
Recognized by the Demon-Possessed
Sovereignty of
CHRISTMAS As Both Poetry and Prose As Experienced by the Bethlehem Shepherds As God¿s Event Announced Only by Heaven¿s Angels As God¿s Gift that Requires a Wilderness Experience As God¿s Own Story As Good News to Someone for Everyone Celebrated in a Hymn of Invitation
CHURCH
As Community of God¿s Own People
As the School for Issues of Gospel Faith
Its Worldly Disorder
Like Being with Abraham and Family
COMFORT Worldly, in Being Self-Consolation As That Which Abounds in the Father of Mercies
CONFIRMATION RITE As God¿s Claim on You in Christ Jesus
CONSCIENCE As Fear and Shame before God
CONVERSION
CREATION Of Light, as God¿s First Work
CROSS of CHRIST As God¿s Righteous Judgment
DECISION For God, as God¿s Calling of Us
DISCIPLESHIP
As Being a Brother to All Persons
As Fellowship with Christ¿s Death
As Following along with Christ and Doing as He Does
As a Humanly Impossible Requirement
As Laying Life¿s Burdens down at the Cross of Christ
As Oneness with God-in-Christ
As Remaining Steadfast in Christ
As Summons to Implicit Obedience
As the Impossible Renunciation
As the Way of the Cross
Being Responsible to the Presence of Christ
EASTER As Celebrated in Confusion As God¿s Own Purpose As Living and Dying in Christ
ELISHA His Vision of Spiritual Realities
FAITH
As a Continuing Struggle
As Focused on God¿s Commanding Purpose
As Promise in God¿s Power
As Tested by Discouragement and Despair
As Tested by Obedience to God
As Thoughtful, Not Mindless
Dependent on Loyalty of Devoted Love
Is Staying in the Company of Jesus
Not a Way of Proving God
FORGIVENESS As the Fire of Divine Cleansing
GLORY Divine, as Revealed by the Word
GOD
And Religious Patriotism
As Confronted by His Reality
As David¿s Trust
As Potter of a New Humanity
As the Only Solution to One¿s Loneliness
Dimensions of His Love
Glory as All His Own
His Everlasting Word
His Faithfulness
His Friendship as a Reckoning Relationship
His Hand
His Love as David¿s Only Testimony
His Silence a Price in Learning to Believe
Secure under His Wings
To Whom We Are Bound to Give Account
GOD, POWER OF As Denied by Pharaoh Exercised in Fulfillment of His Purpose
GOD, PRESENCE OF
As a Problematical Concern
In the Birth of Jesus
Not to Be Mistaken as a ¿Good-Luck¿ Charm
To Be Sought Whether Asleep or Awake
GOD, RIGHTEOUSNESS OF Revealed in Death as God¿s Wrath Revealed in God¿s Calling of the Prophet: Isaiah 6:1-8
GOD, SOVEREIGNTY OF As Revealed in the Cross of Christ
GOD, WORD OF
As Absolutely Trustworthy
As Challenge of the NEW in Christ
As a Joyful Imperative
As a Misunderstood Voice
As Power and Truth
As Spiritual Food
Its Fullness in Christ
GOSPEL As Wholly Contained in Psalm 23 As God¿s Holy Love, Subverted by Cultural Christianity
GRACE As Dwelling in Community of God¿s Love Its Three-Fold Dimension of Christian Existence
GUIDANCE As Being Alive to God
GUILT As a Prevalent Human Condition
HEART As Channel of Life¿s Issues As Determination of Character
HOLY COMMUNION Its Reality Is in Being Received Jesus Giving Himself in an Intimate Event
HOLY SPIRIT As Power in the Name of Jesus Christ Replaced by Evil When Withdrawn Represents the Reality of Christ Jesus
HOPE True as Being Grounded in God
IGNORANCE Concerning Christ
INSECURITY As a Clue to the Gospel¿s Relevance
JACOB As Confronted by God¿s Purpose in a Vision
JESUS
As Awesome Confrontation
As Not Just Another Preacher
As Not Primarily a Healer
As Our Kingly God
As the Crucified Christ
As the Distinctive New Among the Old
As the Invisible ¿Light of the World¿
Comes to Us as Christ the Lord
Crucified with Two Criminals
His Freedom in Mission
His Ministry Ordained through John¿s Baptism
His Resurrection a FACT, Not a PRINCIPLE
His Resurrection Not Just Another Miracle
His Suffering as Eternal Sorrow
His Teaching as the Gospel Enigma
Mission and Message Misunderstood
More than a Teacher of Good
Unacceptable as Prophetic Fulfillment
JOB, BOOK OF
JOY As Distinct from Pleasure and Happiness Encompassed for Us in Christ
JUDGMENT By and of Man in the Cross of Jesus
KINGDOM OF GOD
As Present in Christ Crucified
As Promise of God¿s Victorious Dominion
Bears Fruit by Those Only with Ears to Hear
Discovered and Gained as a Costly Treasure
Entrance Price
Entrance Requirement
LIFE
As Barren without God
As Eternal in Its Mission
As in Christ before Death and Resurrection
As Mystery of Darkness and Light in God
As Profane When Without God
As a Spiritual Struggle
As the Light of Eternity in Christ
As Transformed by Christ
Facing Its Reality
Its Fulfillment in God
Poses the Ultimate Question to God-Fearing People
LOVE As GOD¿S Purpose for Us As Sacrificial Giving For Christ as Being Emptied for Others In Christ the Lord as Prerequisite to Ministry When Fear is Overcome by God¿s Love in Christ
MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS
MINISTRY Of God¿s Word as Commitment to Pastoral Care
MIRACLES Performed by Jesus as ¿Signs¿
NICODEMUS In Failing to Take Up His Cross
OBEDIENCE
As Being Bound to God, Not to the Law
As Prescribed by the Mother of Jesus
As the DOING of God¿s Will
As the Ultimate Decision
Inadequate Simply as Sacrifice
OLD TESTAMENT Reveals God¿s Activity in Human Affairs
PALM SUNDAY As a Spontaneous but Misunderstood Event The Challenge of Jesus¿ Kingship
PAUL, THE APOSTLE As Dying with Christ and Alive to God His Ministry to Be Judged Only by God
PEACE As Faith Abiding in Christ As Revealed and Given to Us in Christ Jesus [John 14:28]
PEOPLE As Crowd Followers of Jesus
PETER, the DISCIPLE
His Confession¿As Imagined
His Discipleship Transformed
His Independence
PETER, the APOSTLE Empowered by Christ in His Healing Ministry
PHARISEES As Justified in Their Opposition to Jesus
PRAYER
As Being Alone with God
As Deliverance from SELF
As God¿s Own Invitation
As God¿s Promises Fulfilled in Christ
As True in the Context of God¿s Glory
As Wanting What God Determines
Necessary as Taught by Jesus
When It Requires Our Own Responsibility
PREACHING Categories Genuine as God¿s Action through His Spirit In the Apostolic Tradition Requires Faithfulness to the Word of God
PRIDE As Refusing to Let Jesus Be Our Savior
PROPHETIC HERITAGE, OUR As Reverential Fear of God
PROVIDENCE As God¿s Care for His Own Necessitates Human Response
PSALMS As Expressive Guides in Our Daily Prayers Manifest Confidence in Faithfulness of God
RECONCILIATION [See 2 Corinthians 5:19] As the Priority of the Father¿s Love for the Son
RELIGION Its True Priority and Promise True as Continuing Prayer
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE As Godly Fear As God¿s Own Enterprise
REPENTANCE As Readiness for God¿s Grace Required in God¿s Promise of Pardon
RESURRECTION As General and Gospel Truth
RIGHTEOUSNESS As Delight in God
SALVATION As Realized in Exertion
SANCTIFICATION Being Identified as Sinner-Saints Requires Self-Examination
SELF-EXAMINATION As Authentic When in Christ As Being Beyond Introspection
SELF-UNDERSTANDING As Process in Being Bound to Christ
SIN As Claiming Life for Ourselves As Illustrated by the ¿Prodigal Son¿ As Judged in the Mirror of God¿s Word Its Reality as Faced by St. Paul Revealed in the Shame of Disobedience
SORROW Worldly versus Godly
SPIRITUALITY As Confronted by Eternity As of Man or of God As the Secret of God¿s Grace
STEWARDSHIP As being Accountable Before the Judgment Seat of Christ
SUFFERING As Manifest in Jesus Crucified
TEMPTATION As a Serious Matter in Christian Existence As Portrayed in the Story of Job
THANKSGIVING As Abiding Only in God As Gratitude in Christ As Honoring God in His Holiness As Living¿Not Simply Giving¿Thanks
TIME As Enclosed by Eternity Of Crisis and of the End
TRUTH As Being Cruciform As Fountain of Freedom As the Reality of God Manifested Only in Christ
WAITING As Being in Readiness for God As Sponsored by God For God as Essential Obedience Is a Matter of Being Patient
WISDOM As a Misunderstood Value As Awareness in the Heart of Knowing God Its Source as Humanly Elusive Its True Source
WORK As Man¿s Redemption in Christ As Prescribed by God
WORLD In Its Negative and Positive Determinations
WORLDLINESS As a Matter of Possessions
WORSHIP As Being Confronted by the Mystery and Majesty of God As True in the One God Who Carries In Church as Sanctuary of Place and Time
YOKE As Our Savior¿s Discipline As Freedom in Surrender to Christ
Descriere
More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R. Zimmerman's sermons delivered over the span of six decades to a wide-ranging number of Protestant congregations, mostly in Ohio.