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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... darkness for two millennia . During these millennia innumerable com- mentaries upon this Gospel have been written and read . This is not because the nature of the Light changes , but because the world in which it shines is different in ...
... darkness . " Word " ( logos ) is almost as hard to define as is the mystery to which it points . Although it expresses a fundamental element in John's under- standing of Jesus Christ , logos does not appear again in the Gospel of John ...
... darkness on the other alerts readers to the dualistic worldview of this evangelist . This worldview also appears in the contrasts between above and below , truth and falsehood , life and death . Above is the realm of God , truth , life ...
... darkness , announced with cosmic dualism in verse 5 , is elaborated on the level of history in verses 10-13 . Verses 10-11 continue the theme of darkness , verses 12-13 the theme of light . The tension between the universality of the ...
... darkness in which the light shines ( 1 : 5 ) and introduces a theme , seeing , that plays a prominent role in the entire Gospel . In variant forms of the Greek text , " God the only Son " ( 1 : 18b ) combines two key terms ( theos , God ...