Description: The three cycles of sermons included here provide a spiritual geography, an announcement of the gospel set in New York State. The sermons were given life in the vibrant life of Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, New York, over several years beginning in 2000. The collection is meant to exemplify a thematic form of preaching that addresses and creates a collective consciousness in the life a community. One series is set on ""A Village Green."" Another invites those along the Finger Lakes to travel ""Once More to the Lake."" The third traverses the major cities of the...

Endorsements: ""Here is the work of an exceptional preacher and teacher who weaves together hard-won insights from years of study and writing. The sermons are a treasure and the lectures are filled with careful scholarship. . . . Hill leads us to a vista that sees beyond previous limited categories of analysis. He joins the earliest witnesses in suggesting this gospel is given so we might believe and have life."" --Philip A. Amerson, President, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary ""In a series of striking sermons Hill models the hermeneutics of preaching from John for our situation. The...