Sixth Times Book of Best Sermons

Now in its sixth best-selling year, this annual volume collects the top thirty from hundreds of sermons written by men and women from a diverse range of denominations and faiths. These sermons are powerful and compelling and can be read with enjoyment over and over again.

Foreword

vii

Canon Michael Saward

Introduction

xi

Ruth Gledhill

Acknowledgements

xiv

BIBLICAL PARABLES

Strange Fires

2

(5)

Albert Friedlander

Asking

7

(4)

John Whittaker

The Unlikely Helper

11

(4)

David Tyrrell

The Brylcreem Boy

15

(8)

Michael Topliss

Last of All, As to One Untimely Born, He Appeared Also to Me

23

(5)

Dominic Barrington

153 Fish - Our First Meal!

28

(6)

Richard Dormandy

Rebekah

34

(5)

Jo Bailey Wells

Salvation - With an Exclamation Mark!

39

(4)

Ian Knox

John 12:24

43

(5)

Norman Price

Sharing Truth in the Market-Place

48

(7)

Michael Botting

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

55

(4)

Barbara Glasson

Believing Without Needing to See

59

(5)

George Hore

SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT

John 2:13-25

64

(4)

Graham Gillman

The Glory of God

68

(4)

James Cocke

Being Part of the Story

72

(5)

Julian Cummins

The Keys to the Kingdom

77

(5)

John Mills

Include People, Don't Exclude Them!

82

(7)

John Littleton

You Were Strangers

89

(6)

Margaret Hay

A Leper Came to Jesus

95

(5)

Martin Boland

Honour Your Father and Your Mother

100

(6)

Steven Katz

THE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

Thou Didst Form My Inmost Parts

106

(6)

Lesley Perry

What Kind of Religion is Christianity?

112

(4)

Bill Wilson

Birth and Death at Christmas

116

(5)

Gordon Giles

A Sermon on Depression

121

(6)

John Young

How to Hold on to Hope

127

(10)

Jayne Ozanne

The Holocaust and Divine Suffering

137

(5)

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Jesus' Last Words: Hope in Times of Despair

142

(6)

Ken Paterson

Enough of Stunned Silence

148

(7)

Hugh-Nigel Sheehan

To Light, or Not to Light?

155

(5)

Jonathan Wittenberg

Fearful Symmetry

160

(6)

Neil Fairlamb

The Death of God

166

(6)

Sir Alan Goodison

Erev Rosh Hashanah

172

(10)

Sheila Shulman

Sacrifice

182

(3)

Ronald Creighton-Jobe

Pentecost

185

(9)

David Hatton

CONTENTMENT

Lessons in Contentment

194

(4)

Harry Young

If We Get it Wrong

198

(6)

Geoffrey Parkinson

Sermon for Trinity Sunday

204

(5)

Anthony Bird

Strength to the Weary

209

(4)

Stephen Hance

Harsh Words in the Temple

213

(4)

Lawrie Adam

Free at Last

217

(7)

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The Judges

224

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