More sermon nuggets : topical excerpts from a lifetime of preaching / Fred R. Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Fred R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Church of Christ--Sermons.

United Church of Christ.

Protestant churches--Sermons.

Protestant churches.

Sermons, American--20th century.

Sermons, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, 2015.

Summary:

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R. Zimmerman's sermons delivered over the span of six decades to a wide-ranging number of Protestant congregations, mostly in Ohio.

Contents:

Contents; Abraham; His Trust in God's Promise; Advent Season; As God's Offer of Grace; Altar; As Furniture of Worship Made Holy by God; Ascension; As Fulfillment of the Incarnation; Jesus Christ Is Now Lord in Heaven as on Earth; Authority; Of Jesus as Given, Not Proven; Baptism; As God's Promise to Us of His Gospel; Bible; As Comfort amidst Conflict; As Inward Confrontation; Genesis-The Book of Beginnings; Holy Spirit as Its Only True Interpreter; Speaks of God in His Sovereignty; Upfront about Human Wrongdoing; Burden; Of Daily Life Endured as Rest under the Yoke of Christ

Of Our Humanity Overcome by ChristChristian Existence; As Conflict of Flesh and Spirit; As a Fruitful Branch of the True Vine; As Growth in the Grace of Christ; As Living with Christ; As a Pilgrimage, Not a Tourist Site; As the Call to Freedom; As True in a Hidden Belonging; Exercised in Commitment; Keeping Alert to Being IN Christ; Learned in the Cradle of Forgiveness; Letting God-in-Christ Fulfill His Purpose for You; Not Defined by Human Standards; Christianity; As Limited to the Golden Rule-St. Luke 6:31; As Merely Religious Summons; Customary Versions of; Christ Jesus

As Being Surprised by HimAs Guest in Our Home; As Light that Overcomes Darkness; As Our Eternal Contemporary; As Reality of God's Word; Baptized by John the Baptist; Daily Rebirth In; Demonstrates the Wideness of God's Love; Friendship Of; His Consummate Word from the Cross; His Entry into the Dominion of Death; His Love the Basis of Family Care; In Being beyond Our Knowing; Recognized by the Demon-Possessed; Sovereignty Of; Christmas; As Both Poetry and Prose; As Experienced by the Bethlehem Shepherds; As God's Event Announced Only by Heaven's Angels

As God's Gift that Requires a Wilderness ExperienceAs God's Own Story; As Good News to Someone for Everyone; Celebrated in a Hymn of Invitation; Church; As Community of God's Own People; As the School for Issues of Gospel Faith; Its Worldly Disorder; Like Being with Abraham and Family; Comfort; Worldly, in Being Self-Consolation; As That Which Abounds in the Father of Mercies; Confirmation Rite; As God's Claim on You in Christ Jesus; Conscience; As Fear and Shame before God; Conversion; Creation; Of Light, as God's First Work; Cross of Christ; As God's Righteous Judgment; Decision

For God, as God's Calling of UsDiscipleship; As Being a Brother to All Persons; As Fellowship with Christ's Death; As Following Along with Christ and Doing as He Does; As a Humanly Impossible Requirement; As Laying Life's Burdens Down at the Cross of Christ; As Oneness with God-in-Christ; As Remaining Steadfast in Christ; As Summons to Implicit Obedience; As the Impossible Renunciation; As the Way of the Cross; Being Responsible to the Presence of Christ; Easter; As Celebrated in Confusion; As God's Own Purpose; As Living and Dying in Christ; Elisha; His Vision of Spiritual Realities; Faith

As a Continuing Struggle

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 22, 2016).

ISBN:

0-7618-6653-1