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Lent 3A
March 23, 2014
- Bloomer, Nancy, "Starting Over," The Living Pulpit, 2005.
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“God's first covenanted relationship in the Bible was not with humanity alone but with all of creation.”
- Byars, Ronald P., "Between Text & Sermon, Psalm 95," Interpretation, 2002.
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“It may be that the crisis for faith in our time is linked to the habit of shrinking God to a manageable size. There is among us a widespread agnosticism, on the one hand, and a surfeit of easy God-talk on the other.”
- Dana, MaryAnn McKibben, "Suffering, Endurance, Character, Hope, Romans 5:1-11," Journal for Preachers, 2005.
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“So no, maybe the answer isn't to ride the circle in some painstaking attempt to give our suffering some structure and meaning. Maybe the answer is to step off, to fling ourselves into the waiting arms of God, to be embraced by the Jesus who says, ‘I am all the endurance and character and hope you will ever need.’”
- Harrisville, Roy A., "Romans 5:1-5, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1991.
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“It should be clear: Faith is the primary Christian virtue, faith by which we have been "rightwised" and put at peace, on account of Christ who has given us entre to "this grace," this "spontaneous, unmerited, and uncaused" favor of God; faith that moves us to boast in sufferings, which not only mark our existence with the crucified but are the inevitable prelude to glory. Of this faith love is the guarantee. It is not the other way around.”
- Bridges, Linda McKinnish, "John 4:5-42, Between Text and Sermon," Interpretation, 1994.
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“Evangelism is allowing one's life to be the conduit of God's grace for another. Our name or family pedigree does not matter. Our past history is of no particular concern. All that God requires is willing vessels who will leave behind the past and walk boldly into the future, carrying the living water of God's forgiveness and mercy in their lives.”
- Craddock, Fred B., "The Witness at the Well," The Christian Century, 1990.
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“Her witness avoids triumphalism, hawking someone else's conclusions, packaged answers to unasked questions, thinly veiled ultimatums and threats of hell, and assumptions of certainty on theological matters. She does convey, however, her willingness to let her hearers arrive at their own affirmations about Jesus, and they do: ‘This is indeed the Savior of the world.’”
- Thomas-Smith, Karen, "Seeing through the Eyes of Our Sister, Hagar: An Expository Sermon on Genesis 16:1-16, 21:1-21 and John 4:5-14,"Review & Expositor, 2008.
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“It is my hunch that the name of the woman at the well whom Jesus encounters in Samaria is Hagar—if not literally, then at least symbolically. For here Jesus meets a woman who has been tossed from man to man, and he truly sees her heart, and offers her living water that will quench her thirst forever.”
- Malcolm, Lois and Janet L. Ramsey, "On Forgiveness and Healing: Narrative Therapy and the Gospel Story," Word & World, 2010.
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Psychologists and theologians often talk past each other, particularly when discussing forgiveness. Comparing narrative therapy and the gospel story provides a way to engage the conversation meaningfully, both realities providing ways to transform human lives.
- Okure, Teresa, "Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (John 4:1-42) in Africa," Theological Studies, 2009.
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Abstract: “The author reads the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman (Jn 4:1-42) in light of social ills afflicting African society today. She first highlights the rejection, prejudice, and isolation of the two main characters in their own contexts, and their contribution to John's account of how the woman leads her village to the "living water" of faith in Jesus. Finally she examines what John's Jesus of Galilee and the Samaritan woman have in common and might have to say to Africa today.”
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