Marking Time Preaching Biblical Stories in Present Tense

Name: Marking Time Preaching Biblical Stories in Present Tense
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ISBN: 9780687046201

ISBN-10: 0687046203

ISBN-13: 9780687046201

Edition: 2007

Authors: Barbara K. Lundblad

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The preacher is too often caught between biblical and contemporary time. Residing first in one, then in the other, the preacher must somehow find a way to bring the two times -- separate as they might seem -- together. The temptation of course is to capitulate to one side or the other of this tension. The preacher can reside solely in the biblical time, offering the congregation what amounts to weekly lectures on history and archeology, spiced up with the occasional moralistic conclusion. Or, setting up shop permanently in contemporary time, she or he can offer commentaries on society and culture that occasionally tip their hats in the direction of Scripture. A third way, contends Barbara…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Barbara K. Lundblad is Joe R. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.nbsp; Rev. Lundblad has been heard regularly on the Protestant Hour for many years and is formerly pastor of an ELCU parish on the upper west side of Manhattan. She was chosen to deliver the Beecher lectures at Yale in October 2000.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Marking Time: Reading Scripture at the River's Edge



It Will Be All Right: New Rubrics for the Holy Man's Room



The Camel and the Cash Machine: A Story We Try to Forget



Water on a Desert Road: Splashing in the Scroll of Isaiah



Standing Once More at the River's Edge



Sermons Preached at the River's Edge


"Fragments" (After 9/11)


"In God We Trust" (Revelation 18)


"Turning Letters into Laws" (1 Corinthians 7)


"What the Mighty Might Learn" (2 Kings 5)


"No Prayer for Nineveh" (Jonah 2)


Notes