“way.” It is an unfinished eschatological conversation; initiated by God,” — 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… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“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… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“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… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“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
