Preaching the Gospel of John: Proclaiming the Living WordIn this accessible treatment of the major themes of the Gospel of John, renowned New Testament scholar Lamar Williamson blends the best of biblical scholarship and a close reading of the Fourth Gospel to meet the practical needs of weekly preaching. A more reflective Gospel in which the risen Jesus speaks in signs and discourses, John does not simply tell stories, but allows us to experience the Word and to see Jesus offering living water to the aridity of the institutional church and bread to the hungry hearts of individual disciples. More than mere exposition,Preaching the Gospel of Johnincludes at the end of each passage three to five possibilities for preaching the text--creative and pertinent suggestions that can help preachers apply the words of the Fourth Gospel to the lives of today's churchgoers. Proclaiming the living Word is a major theme of the Gospel of John, and this clear and insightful commentary captures that message in the preaching moment. |
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... Jesus Christ meant to a group of people who had come to know him near the end of the first century C.E. Those early Christians saw in Jesus the uncreated light of God , a light that they knew as the Word . Getting to know him was like ...
... Jesus Christ , logos does not appear again in the Gospel of John in its weighty , theological sense . The meaning of the other four terms can best be understood by noting how they are used in the remainder of the Fourth Gospel , but ...
... Jesus Christ and therefore turn away from his light ( 1 : 10c ) . The last usage of " world " is introduced here for the first time.4 The term is used more than seventy - five times in the Fourth Gospel , far more often than in all the ...
... Jesus ' affirmations about eating his flesh in John 6 : 51-56 so offensive ... Christ have received , then is not used again in the Fourth Gospel . Grace ... Jesus Christ . In some cases truth simply denotes a statement that is accurate ...
... Jesus Christ , found that he " exegeted " ( exegesato j -explained , made plain - what had not been clear before . " God the only Son ... has made [ God ] known " ( 1:18 ) . Preaching and teaching the Word The prologue to the Fourth ...