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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... cross ( 3 : 14-16 ) as well as his victory over sin ( 12 : 31-33 ; 19:30 ) and death ( chap . 20 ) . THE FIRST DISCIPLES : ANDREW , PETER , PHILIP , AND NATHANAEL ( 1 : 35-51 ) How do people come to know Jesus ? This question underlies ...
... cross ( 19:26 ) .4 The idiomatic expression ti emoi kai soi ( literally " What to me and to you ? " ) is not necessarily a rebuke but a sort of declaration of indepen- dence , a distancing from his mother's implicit request . His action ...
... cross . Jesus ' crucifixion is here spoken of in a figure of speech based on a story in Numbers 21 : 4-9 . Just as Moses at God's command made a bronze serpent and put it on a pole so that Israelites dying of snakebite in the wilderness ...
... cross are the supreme expression of God's great love for the world . " World " here means the entire human race as ... cross , and what he invites his community , his Jewish neighbors , and all the world to see as well . The man on this ...
... cross ( 3 : 11-15 ) . It is about God the Father who loved the world and gave the Son so that we need not be condemned , although judgment inevitably occurs when light comes ( 3 : 16-21 ) .10 All is the action of the one God who was in ...