“What reconciliation and redemption mean; what rebirth and Holy Spirit, love for one’s enemies, cross and resurrection mean; what it means to live in Christ and follow Christ—all that is so difficult and remote that we hardly dare to speak… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“measures of truth fall short. God’s Way doesn’t always make sense; it is incoherent by rationalistic standards. Like Jesus, God’s truth is sometimes inappropriate by human social standards. And the truth of the cross bears pragmatic problems. But underneath all our judgments regarding the characteristics of truth and the norms we determine it by (i.e., appropriateness, coherence, pragmatism), there is… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share
“way.” It is an unfinished eschatological conversation; initiated by God,” — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“reign. Until God’s reign comes in all its fullness, we can only experience it in part in fragmentary ways. With” — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“due a gracious, yet ever-mysterious God that is the beginning of wisdom. The second is the acknowledgement of human limitations and an accompanying respect for differing interpretations. The third is the listening heart, a lifelong alertness to patterns of God at work in our experience, that of others, the human sciences, and the world around us. The fourth is the… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share
“People come to church seeking a living word from the living Lord, not a commentary on life from another Garrison Keillor” — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The theo-rhetorical concern is chiefly one of clarity: how to speak gospel and not to say something else,” — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“True repentance, though, ultimately includes belief (i.e., trust) in God’s sovereign way as we turn from our old ways to point ourselves in God’s direction—i.e., the Lord’s purpose in creating and redeeming the world, which is symbolized as the eschatological vision of God’s reign. Until God’s reign comes in all its fullness, we can only experience it in part in… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share
“From where I sit, all homiletical theological perspectives are interpretations with certain strengths and weaknesses. They have a provisional character. We cannot have full… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“This also leads Bonhoeffer to assert that the efficacy of preaching occurs only because it pleases God, who in the ministry of word and… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The sapiential hermeneutic is a hermeneutic with a high tolerance for complexity and ambiguity. Sermons that grow out of the kind of inductive sapiential… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Because the nature of all our God talk is inherently metaphoric and rhetorical, preaching will be a form of poetic rhetorical theology276 structured with… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“society. The task of theology was not to mirror the norms of culture, but when necessary to confront and even contradict them, since it… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
