Program Sermon Outline (loosely followed) I. Introduction a. Review 1. Literal 2. Allegorical 3. Moral 4. Anagogical b. Read out loud 1. Jonah 2. God 3. Captain 4. Sailors 5. Narrator 6. Newsreader for the King of Ninevah II. Literal a. What does it say? b. What doesn’t it say? c. What voices are left out? d. Who wins and …
How to Read the Bible: The Anagogical (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon Outline I. Review a. Literal b. Allegorical c. Moral d. Anagogical II. Classical a. Anagogical b. Destiny c. Prophecy III. Modern a. Dispensationalism b. Process theology c. Speaking prophetically IV. Post-modern Finally, we come to the anagogical sense, which interprets the things related in Holy Scripture “as they signify what relates to eternal glory.” This meaning is not …
How to Read the Bible: The Moral (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon Outline I. Ancient a. Do good, get good b. Do good, suffer, get good later II. Classical a. Bible as guidebook b. Problems with literal truth 1. Transmission 2. Translation 3. Interpretation 4. Application c. Problems with allegorical truth 1. Interpretation 2. Application d. Both create problems with moral truth III. Modern a. The Bible speaks authoritatively on …
How to Read the Bible: The Allegorical (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon Outline (roughly followed) I. Back up a. Scripture as revelation 1. How does God intervene in writing Scripture? 2. How does God intervene in the world? b. Review series 1. Literal a) Plain reading b) Modern rationalist, truth-seeking tendencies 2. Allegorical 3. Moral 4. Anagogical II. What is allegory? a. Lisa is a fox b. Bernie Madoff is …
How to Read the Bible: The Literal (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon Outline I. Classical a. Descriptive b. Just the facts “Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the …
How to Read the Bible: Introduction (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon Outline (loosely followed) I. Questions a. How do you view the Bible? b. How do you use Bible? c. Do know the Bible? d. Do you want to know the Bible? II. Classical understanding a. Literal b. Allegorical c. Moral d. Anagogical III. Post-modern twist IV. Why read it? Why does it matter? a. Cultural defense 1. Literary …
What We Leave Behind (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon We just went on vacation. We went to a place in the Hill Country, to a little plot of land that has been in Lisa’s family for almost a hundred years. The Hagy Camp sits on a bluff above the Western fork of the Frio River, about six miles north of Leakey, Texas. Lisa’s ancestors started going there …
Undone by Love: The Alien (Program and Sermon)
Program Scriptures An Immigrant’s Prayer by Remigio Hernandez Sermon I know we’re always looking for ways to annoy our fundamentalist friends and family, so here’s something: the exodus, the central narrative of the Jewish tradition and the paradigm for the Christian journey, didn’t really happen. It’s true. There’s a pretty substantial archaeological record from the period it would have happened, …
Undone by Love: The Earth (Program and Sermon)
Program Genny’s Introduction The journey of becoming an ecotheologian of sorts began for me through caring about people: I have a distinct memory from my first semester of coursework at Brite, where I was reading a text by Eleazar Fernandez where he asks the question: What does it mean to have hearts as large as the world? I was already …
John’s Church, Our Church: Oneness (Program and Sermon)
Program Sermon At the beginning of this series, I made an apology. Normally, we use the inclusive text for our Scripture readings, but I chose to use the NRSV for this series. The reasoning was that John is very careful about language and the inclusive text sometimes obscures it. The downside is that we hear God constantly referred to in …