Book details

Wrestling with the Word: Preaching on tricky texts

Kate Bruce & Jamie Harrison

9780281076482

Limited stock

17/11/2016

RRP $42.95

On Sale $19.95 ~~$42.95~~

Offers the 'wrestling' preacher encouragement and companionship in handling difficult biblical texts.
Many biblical texts seem almost impossible to preach. They may be violent or terrifying or strange or abrasive. They may deal with matters simply beyond human experience. The preacher could well be tempted to choose an easier text on offer! But leaving taxing passages untouched means the Bible is effectively silenced.

In Wrestling with the Word, well-known and accomplished preachers grapple with a range of notoriously difficult biblical Old and New Testament texts. As well as providing sample sermons – in an exhilarating variety of structural styles and voices – they offer ideas to help in the planning process of interpreting and applying such passages.

Contributors: John Bell, Richard Briggs, Kate Bruce, David Day, James Dunn, Ruth Etchells, Lis Goddard, Lindsey Goodhew, Jamie Harrison, Jolyon Mitchell, Walter Moberly, John Pritchard, Roy Searle, Magdalen Smith, Geoffrey Stevenson, Miriam Swaffield, Mark Tanner, Justin Welby, Alison Wilkinson, David Wilkinson.

“A well-constructed and delivered sermon has the potential to inspire people as few other experiences can.”
The Rt Revd John Pritchard, from the Foreword