The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, Volumul 1Westminster John Knox Press, 1 ian. 2008 - 597 pagini Comprising the sermons preached by William Sloane Coffin while he was senior minister at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City, The Collected Sermons of William Sloane CoffinThe Riverside Years captures the renowned preacher and social activist at work: ministering to American hostages in Iran, supporting AIDS awareness, and rallying his audiences to battle poverty and nuclear proliferationall the while celebrating marriages, baptisms, and Mothers Days and mourning the loss of loved ones, including his own son. In each of these brilliant and painstakingly crafted sermons, Coffin combined his deep love of Scripture and passionate commitment to peace and justice with his unparalleled gift for the spoken word. While also revealing the personal and pastoral dimensions of ministry, each sermon provides a powerful example of lifes well-accomplished mission: to challenge the conscience of a nation. For those who knew William Sloane Coffin, these sermons will be a treasured remembrance. For those who regret not knowing him, they provide the best of introductions. And for those who as yet have escaped Coffins influence, they are superb testimony to the great potential of ministry, the possibilities of hope and determination, and the remarkable power of one human voice. |
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... feel, therefore I am”). If Coffin could have appraised such “feeling” as a mere fad in middle-class therapy and the discourse of the time, he would have dropped the matter; but he found that something was at stake. He feared that people ...
... feel, therefore I am”). If Coffin could have appraised such “feeling” as a mere fad in middle-class therapy and the discourse of the time, he would have dropped the matter; but he found that something was at stake. He feared that people ...
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... feel overwhelmed by its size , or we can allow it to lift up our spirits until we feel with the psalmist , “ we are a little lower than the angels . ” Finally , it is perfectly true to say , " to everyone who has will more be given ...
... feel overwhelmed by its size , or we can allow it to lift up our spirits until we feel with the psalmist , “ we are a little lower than the angels . ” Finally , it is perfectly true to say , " to everyone who has will more be given ...
Pagina 9
... feel too badly about themselves they make sure they don't feel too good about anything . For them , life has no heights , no depths . It is all flattened out . The trick in life is to die young as late as possible . But sufferers of ...
... feel too badly about themselves they make sure they don't feel too good about anything . For them , life has no heights , no depths . It is all flattened out . The trick in life is to die young as late as possible . But sufferers of ...
Pagina 11
... feel badly about being one . And if you think that those trying to wean you from your sense of fail- ure the Joshuas and the Calebs of the world — are only trying to push you around , then you can stone them with a good conscience . Now ...
... feel badly about being one . And if you think that those trying to wean you from your sense of fail- ure the Joshuas and the Calebs of the world — are only trying to push you around , then you can stone them with a good conscience . Now ...
Pagina 16
... feel better but serve no other cause. The point I wish to make is the obvi- ous one: Answers demand questions, and the bigger the answers the bigger the questions. The main reason why people don't believe in God is that they don't ...
... feel better but serve no other cause. The point I wish to make is the obvi- ous one: Answers demand questions, and the bigger the answers the bigger the questions. The main reason why people don't believe in God is that they don't ...
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Pagina 48 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Pagina 569 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Pagina 216 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Pagina 66 - Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy.
Pagina 129 - Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine.
Pagina 539 - UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Pagina 309 - And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Pagina 579 - Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Pagina 238 - No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.