Sixth Times Book of Best Sermons

by Gledhill, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780826449832
• ISBN10: 0826449832
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Now in its sixth best-selling year, this annual volume collects the top thirty from hundreds of sermons written by men and women from a diverse range of denominations and faiths. These sermons are powerful and compelling and can be read with enjoyment over and over again.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Canon Michael Saward
Introduction	xi
Ruth Gledhill
Acknowledgements	xiv
BIBLICAL PARABLES
Strange Fires	2	(5)
Albert Friedlander
Asking	7	(4)
John Whittaker
The Unlikely Helper	11	(4)
David Tyrrell
The Brylcreem Boy	15	(8)
Michael Topliss
Last of All, As to One Untimely Born, He Appeared Also to Me	23	(5)
Dominic Barrington
153 Fish - Our First Meal!	28	(6)
Richard Dormandy
Rebekah	34	(5)
Jo Bailey Wells
Salvation - With an Exclamation Mark!	39	(4)
Ian Knox
John 12:24	43	(5)
Norman Price
Sharing Truth in the Market-Place	48	(7)
Michael Botting
Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet	55	(4)
Barbara Glasson
Believing Without Needing to See	59	(5)
George Hore
SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT
John 2:13-25	64	(4)
Graham Gillman
The Glory of God	68	(4)
James Cocke
Being Part of the Story	72	(5)
Julian Cummins
The Keys to the Kingdom	77	(5)
John Mills
Include People, Don't Exclude Them!	82	(7)
John Littleton
You Were Strangers	89	(6)
Margaret Hay
A Leper Came to Jesus	95	(5)
Martin Boland
Honour Your Father and Your Mother	100	(6)
Steven Katz
THE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Thou Didst Form My Inmost Parts	106	(6)
Lesley Perry
What Kind of Religion is Christianity?	112	(4)
Bill Wilson
Birth and Death at Christmas	116	(5)
Gordon Giles
A Sermon on Depression	121	(6)
John Young
How to Hold on to Hope	127	(10)
Jayne Ozanne
The Holocaust and Divine Suffering	137	(5)
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Jesus' Last Words: Hope in Times of Despair	142	(6)
Ken Paterson
Enough of Stunned Silence	148	(7)
Hugh-Nigel Sheehan
To Light, or Not to Light?	155	(5)
Jonathan Wittenberg
Fearful Symmetry	160	(6)
Neil Fairlamb
The Death of God	166	(6)
Sir Alan Goodison
Erev Rosh Hashanah	172	(10)
Sheila Shulman
Sacrifice	182	(3)
Ronald Creighton-Jobe
Pentecost	185	(9)
David Hatton
CONTENTMENT
Lessons in Contentment	194	(4)
Harry Young
If We Get it Wrong	198	(6)
Geoffrey Parkinson
Sermon for Trinity Sunday	204	(5)
Anthony Bird
Strength to the Weary	209	(4)
Stephen Hance
Harsh Words in the Temple	213	(4)
Lawrie Adam
Free at Last	217	(7)
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
The Judges	224