Centering Our Souls: Devotional Reflections of a University PresidentFor more than twenty-five years, R. Kirby Godsey has been a regular in the Chapel Services at Mercer University as a proclaimer of the Word. Collected for the first time, these sermons reveal a vision for the Christian living out one's faith in the world. Godsey's unique prospective requires that the hearer/reader be a critical thinker in their faith. Brought to print for the first time in this book, these sermons serve as a clarion call for faithful and radical discipleship and honesty. |
Contents
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The Long Journey to Easter | 9 |
What Color Is a Month? | 17 |
Principles Priorities and Promises | 25 |
Holy Ground | 33 |
Amazing Grace | 43 |
Becoming the Truth | 51 |
War and Peace | 59 |
Beginning at Home | 89 |
Esau Is Coming | 97 |
Learning to Forgive | 105 |
The Plague of Certainty | 111 |
Recentering the Church and Its Ministry | 119 |
The Baptist Journey of Faith and Learning | 131 |
The Challenge of Christian Education | 141 |
Seeing Our Blindness | 153 |
Preaching m the Baptist Wilderness | 67 |
The Holy Catholic Church | 75 |
Lessons on Time | 83 |
Simple Gifts | 161 |
The Children of Cain | 169 |
Common terms and phrases
affirmation answers bad religion Baptist become begin believe better blindness burning bush Cain Cain and Abel challenge Charlie Brown Children of Hope Christian faith confess congregations Cooperative Baptist Fellowship denomination desert dread embrace Esau is coming face fear feel find the courage forgiveness Forrest Gump friends gift God's presence gospel Grace means hear hearts Holy Catholic Church holy ground hope human journeys hurt Jerusalem Jesus lesson light listen live look meet Mercer University midst Moses Nazareth never open our eyes ourselves pain Palm Sunday peace person piety pious intelligence prayer preachers preaching priests priorities promised land questions reality relationships religion religious sanctuary Scorched earth set us free silence simply sometimes soul speak spirit stand story Sunday things tragedy truth trying turn uncertainty violence walk wilderness word worship