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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... Chapter 6 ( 6 : 1-71 ) 13 25 16 22 BAB 55 56 28 31 33 40 46 46 54 H33 13 xi 1 11 57 61 66 Jesus Feeds Five Thousand People and Walks on the Sea ( 6 : 1-21 ) The Crowd's Search for Bread ( 6 : 22-35 ) " I Am the Bread of Life " ( 6 : 35 ...
... chapter 3. These three chapters introduce a number of elements that characterize this Gospel . The notes that follow treat these chapters as a block of material dealing with " firsts " : the first witness , John the Baptist ( 1 : 19-34 ) ...
... chapter 18 . The follow - up questions ( v . 21 ) concern two other figures associated with end - time expectations in sectarian Judaism of the time : Elijah ( Mal . 4 : 5 ) and a prophet like Moses ( Deut . 18 : 15-18 ) . The ...
... chapter of John . Its significance for preachers lies more in the cultivation of a preaching style than in the preparation of a particular sermon . In 1 : 19-34 , as in the prologue , the Gospel writer at first withholds the name of ...
... chapters 13-17 . Andrew , an Unnamed Disciple , and Simon Peter ( 1 : 35-42 ) Jesus ' first disciples came from among the disciples of John the Baptist , who directs them to Jesus . This short scene portrays three ways of getting to ...