Interpreting the World to the Church Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9783639501438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 116 str.

Seibert MD Rev Joanna J.

Opis

Volume 2 has over 30 sermons preached at funerals, weddings, ordinations, after disasters, on saints days and for children by an Episcopal deacon who has been physician for 48 years. The Rev. Seibert responds to her call as a deacon to "interpret to the Church the needs, concerns, and hopes of the world" as a narrative preacher. She is a storyteller sharing stories showing the relevance of the gospel on these special occasions to the world where we live and work. Volume 1 has 40 sermons based on the three-year Revised Common Sunday Lectionary in the Episcopal Church, Catholic and most Protestant Churches, usually interpreting the gospel. Dr. Seibert takes seriously Frederick Buechners advice to homilists and writers that the greatest importance is how well the preachers words connect to the words inside the listener and how well the listener experiences the gospel during their brief time together. "(It) is not the preachers eloquence but the lump in your throat or the leap of your heart or the thorn in your flesh.."

O autorze

Dr. Seibert is a professor of pediatrics and radiology at Arkansas Children's Hospital and University of Arkansas who has been an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church for 14 years. Others books by the retreat leader are Taste and See,The Call of the Psalms for Busy People and for People in Recovery,Healing Presence,Vol 1 Sermons for Church Year.