The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, Հատոր 2Westminster John Knox Press, 01 հնվ, 2008 թ. - 593 էջ Comprising the sermons preached by William Sloane Coffin while he was senior minister at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City,The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Yearscaptures the renowned preacher and social activist at work: ministering to American hostages in Iran, supporting AIDS awareness, and rallying his audiences to battle poverty and nuclear proliferation--all the while celebrating marriages, baptisms, and Mother's Days and mourning the loss of loved ones, including his own son. In each of these brilliant and painstakingly crafted sermons, Coffin combined his deep love of Scripture and passionate commitment to peace and justice with his unparalleled gift for the spoken word. While also revealing the personal and pastoral dimensions of his ministry, each sermon provides a powerful example of Coffin's well-accomplished mission: to challenge the conscience of a nation. |
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... finally meet in the sea, so all individuals, races and nations meet in God. Coffin quoted Galatians 3:28 after those lines which summarize as well as any what being prophetic in his time meant, though he was embarrassed when people ...
... Finally Dr. Niebuhr said, “Tell me, Mr. Jones, what is the big show?” That exchange prompted a new inspection of Nicodemus, the suc- cessful ruler who came to Jesus at night. Soon he was speaking against the concept of machismo which ...
... finally we read that the devil “ took him up to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple , and said to him , ' If you are the Son of God ' ” ( always that attack at the identity point , where we're always weakest ) , ' throw ...
... finally renounced the struggle for worldly security and the struggle for worldly power and has committed himself or herself to God , but with the secret expectation that God will now do all the work ? So much so - called spirituality is ...
... finally can't be earned or grasped with fists clenched , it can only be received with palms open . Such a gift is life itself that each morning we should wake up and say , " My God , another day has been added unto me to see and hear ...