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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... significant movement here is downward from above , a move- ment that is reflected repeatedly in the Gospel and echoed by a return from below to above.1 The life of the Word - made - flesh is lived out on the plane of history , but it is ...
... significance to interpreters who may read this note . They underscore the important but subordinate role of a witness to Jesus ... significant at Christmas time , when Chris- tians celebrate the Feast of the Nativity and read the infancy ...
... significant for persons who yearn to know God or to experience God's presence more often and more deeply . We do not need to search for God but only to recognize the one in whom God came to live among us and whose Spirit remains in us ...
... significant . So is the legal terminology in John's answer to their follow - up questions : testimony ( martyria , v . 19 ) , confess ( v . 20 ) , interrogate ( vv . 21 , 25 ) . This language foreshadows Jesus ' formal trial before the ...
... significant element in the first 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 ...