The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, Volume 1Westminster John Knox Press, 2008 M01 1 - 597 pages 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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... never do anything a little bit wild. They are never caught off guard. And it has always saddened me, because it seems to me out of character with Christianity that our churches should have so many more Victorians than Elizabethans. And ...
... never do anything a little bit wild. They are never caught off guard. And it has always saddened me, because it seems to me out of character with Christianity that our churches should have so many more Victorians than Elizabethans. And ...
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... never tolerated the intolerable he would have cried out against the wholly unnecessary sadness and pain caused by our inhuman welfare system . Yet because he was the son of God he never allowed his soul to be cornered into despair . And ...
... never tolerated the intolerable he would have cried out against the wholly unnecessary sadness and pain caused by our inhuman welfare system . Yet because he was the son of God he never allowed his soul to be cornered into despair . And ...
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... never freer than when captivated ?, never more in control of ourselves than when lost in each other ? Meanwhile , back at the whale , Jonah has decided that Spinoza was right : freedom is the recognition of necessity . So he decides to ...
... never freer than when captivated ?, never more in control of ourselves than when lost in each other ? Meanwhile , back at the whale , Jonah has decided that Spinoza was right : freedom is the recognition of necessity . So he decides to ...
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... never allowed his soul to be cornered into despair ; who needed no enemies to tell him who he was ; who never counted the world unworthy of his suffering . There is still time to give up something for Lent . Let me suggest our ...
... never allowed his soul to be cornered into despair ; who needed no enemies to tell him who he was ; who never counted the world unworthy of his suffering . There is still time to give up something for Lent . Let me suggest our ...
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... never mind , April is on its way . Soon the robins will join the pigeons , the branches will bud , the sky will be filled with the thunder of the sun . Soon over- head , underfoot , and all around we shall see , hear , feel the juice ...
... never mind , April is on its way . Soon the robins will join the pigeons , the branches will bud , the sky will be filled with the thunder of the sun . Soon over- head , underfoot , and all around we shall see , hear , feel the juice ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 129 - Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.