{"product_id":"more-sermon-nuggets-topical-excerpts-from-a-lifetime-of-preaching-9780761866527","title":"More Sermon Nuggets Topical Excerpts from a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R. Zimmermanâs sermons delivered over the span of six decades to a wide-ranging number of Protestant congregations, mostly in Ohio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred's writings reflect for me the ‘wisdom of the ages.’  He has a special gift to select words and phrases that catch our attention and help us refocus on the really important matters of life and faith. -- John Bock, retired minister\u003cbr\u003eReaders who have never had the opportunity to hear a sermon by Fred Zimmerman can now benefit from his insights and biblical knowledge through this second volume of  “nuggets,” gleaned from a lifetime of preaching. Truly a treasure trove of truth and inspiration, these excerpts are presented in such a way as to be accessible to any serious sojourner seeking illumination and direction on the road of faith. -- Judy Tarjanyi Roberts, writer and former religion editor of The Blade, Toledo, O., blogs at quietkeepers.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABRAHAM \tHis Trust in God’s Promise ADVENT SEASON \tAs God’s Offer of Grace ALTAR \tAs Furniture of Worship Made Holy by God ASCENSION \tAs Fulfillment of the Incarnation \tJesus Christ Is Now Lord in Heaven as on Earth AUTHORITY \tOf Jesus as Given, Not Proven BAPTISM \tAs God’s Promise to Us of His Gospel BIBLE As Comfort Amidst Conflict As Inward Confrontation Genesis—The Book of Beginnings Holy Spirit as Its Only True Interpreter Speaks of God in His Sovereignty Upfront about Human Wrongdoing BURDEN \tOf Daily Life Endured as Rest under the Yoke of Christ \tOf Our Humanity Overcome by Christ CHRISTIAN EXISTENCE As Conflict of Flesh and Spirit As a Fruitful Branch of the True Vine As Growth in the Grace of Christ As Living with Christ As a Pilgrimage, Not a Tourist Site As the Call to Freedom As True in a Hidden Belonging Exercised in Commitment Keeping Alert to Being IN Christ Learned in the Cradle of Forgiveness Letting God-in-Christ Fulfill His Purpose for You Not Defined by Human Standards CHRISTIANITY As Limited to the Golden Rule—St. Luke 6:31 As Merely Religious Summons Customary Versions of CHRIST JESUS As Being Surprised by Him As Guest in Our Home As Light that Overcomes Darkness As Our Eternal Contemporary As Reality of God’s Word Baptized by John the Baptist Daily Rebirth in Demonstrates the Wideness of God’s Love Friendship of His Consummate Word from the Cross His Entry into the Dominion of Death His Love the Basis of Family Care In Being Beyond Our Knowing Recognized by the Demon-Possessed Sovereignty of CHRISTMAS \tAs Both Poetry and Prose \tAs Experienced by the Bethlehem Shepherds \tAs God’s Event Announced Only by Heaven’s Angels \tAs God’s Gift that Requires a Wilderness Experience \tAs God’s Own Story \tAs Good News to Someone for Everyone \tCelebrated in a Hymn of Invitation CHURCH As Community of God’s Own People  As the School for Issues of Gospel Faith Its Worldly Disorder Like Being with Abraham and Family COMFORT \tWorldly, in Being Self-Consolation \tAs That Which Abounds in the Father of Mercies CONFIRMATION RITE \tAs God’s Claim on You in Christ Jesus CONSCIENCE \tAs Fear and Shame before God CONVERSION CREATION \tOf Light, as God’s First Work CROSS of CHRIST \tAs God’s Righteous Judgment DECISION \tFor God, as God’s Calling of Us DISCIPLESHIP As Being a Brother to All Persons As Fellowship with Christ’s Death As Following along with Christ and Doing as He Does As a Humanly Impossible Requirement As Laying Life’s Burdens down at the Cross of Christ As Oneness with God-in-Christ As Remaining Steadfast in Christ As Summons to Implicit Obedience As the Impossible Renunciation As the Way of the Cross Being Responsible to the Presence of Christ EASTER \tAs Celebrated in Confusion \tAs God’s Own Purpose \tAs Living and Dying in Christ ELISHA \tHis Vision of Spiritual Realities FAITH As a Continuing Struggle As Focused on God’s Commanding Purpose As Promise in God’s Power As Tested by Discouragement and Despair As Tested by Obedience to God As Thoughtful, Not Mindless Dependent on Loyalty of Devoted Love Is Staying in the Company of Jesus Not a Way of Proving God FORGIVENESS \tAs the Fire of Divine Cleansing GLORY \tDivine, as Revealed by the Word GOD And Religious Patriotism As Confronted by His Reality As David’s Trust As Potter of a New Humanity As the Only Solution to One’s Loneliness Dimensions of His Love Glory as All His Own His Everlasting Word His Faithfulness His Friendship as a Reckoning Relationship His Hand His Love as David’s Only Testimony His Silence a Price in Learning to Believe Secure under His Wings To Whom We Are Bound to Give Account GOD, POWER OF \tAs Denied by Pharaoh \tExercised in Fulfillment of His Purpose GOD, PRESENCE OF As a Problematical Concern In the Birth of Jesus Not to Be Mistaken as a “Good-Luck” Charm To Be Sought Whether Asleep or Awake GOD, RIGHTEOUSNESS OF \tRevealed in Death as God’s Wrath \tRevealed in God’s Calling of the Prophet: Isaiah 6:1-8 GOD, SOVEREIGNTY OF \tAs Revealed in the Cross of Christ GOD, WORD OF As Absolutely Trustworthy As Challenge of the NEW in Christ As a Joyful Imperative As a Misunderstood Voice As Power and Truth As Spiritual Food Its Fullness in Christ GOSPEL \tAs Wholly Contained in Psalm 23 \tAs God’s Holy Love, Subverted by Cultural Christianity GRACE \tAs Dwelling in Community of God’s Love \tIts Three-Fold Dimension of Christian Existence GUIDANCE \tAs Being Alive to God GUILT \tAs a Prevalent Human Condition HEART \tAs Channel of Life’s Issues \tAs Determination of Character HOLY COMMUNION \tIts Reality Is in Being Received \tJesus Giving Himself in an Intimate Event HOLY SPIRIT \tAs Power in the Name of Jesus Christ \tReplaced by Evil When Withdrawn \tRepresents the Reality of Christ Jesus HOPE \tTrue as Being Grounded in God IGNORANCE \tConcerning Christ INSECURITY   \tAs a Clue to the Gospel’s Relevance JACOB \tAs Confronted by God’s Purpose in a Vision JESUS As Awesome Confrontation As Not Just Another Preacher As Not Primarily a Healer As Our Kingly God As the Crucified Christ As the Distinctive New Among the Old As the Invisible “Light of the World” Comes to Us as Christ the Lord Crucified with Two Criminals His Freedom in Mission His Ministry Ordained through John’s Baptism His Resurrection a FACT, Not a PRINCIPLE His Resurrection Not Just Another Miracle His Suffering as Eternal Sorrow His Teaching as the Gospel Enigma Mission and Message Misunderstood More than a Teacher of Good Unacceptable as Prophetic Fulfillment JOB, BOOK OF JOY \tAs Distinct from Pleasure and Happiness \tEncompassed for Us in Christ JUDGMENT \tBy and of Man in the Cross of Jesus KINGDOM OF GOD As Present in Christ Crucified As Promise of God’s Victorious Dominion Bears Fruit by Those Only with Ears to Hear Discovered and Gained as a Costly Treasure Entrance Price Entrance Requirement LIFE As Barren without God As Eternal in Its Mission As in Christ before Death and Resurrection As Mystery of Darkness and Light in God As Profane When Without God As a Spiritual Struggle As the Light of Eternity in Christ As Transformed by Christ Facing Its Reality Its Fulfillment in God Poses the Ultimate Question to God-Fearing People LOVE \tAs GOD’S Purpose for Us \tAs Sacrificial Giving \tFor Christ as Being Emptied for Others \tIn Christ the Lord as Prerequisite to Ministry \tWhen Fear is Overcome by God’s Love in Christ MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS MINISTRY \tOf  God’s Word as Commitment to Pastoral Care MIRACLES \tPerformed by Jesus as “Signs” NICODEMUS \tIn Failing to Take Up His Cross OBEDIENCE As Being Bound to God, Not to the Law As Prescribed by the Mother of Jesus As the DOING of God’s Will As the Ultimate Decision Inadequate Simply as Sacrifice OLD TESTAMENT \tReveals God’s Activity in Human Affairs PALM SUNDAY \tAs a Spontaneous but Misunderstood Event \tThe Challenge of Jesus’ Kingship PAUL, THE APOSTLE \tAs Dying with Christ and Alive to God \tHis Ministry to Be Judged Only by God PEACE \tAs Faith Abiding in Christ \tAs Revealed and Given to Us in Christ Jesus [John 14:28] PEOPLE \tAs Crowd Followers of Jesus PETER, the DISCIPLE His Confession—As Imagined His Discipleship Transformed His Independence PETER, the APOSTLE \tEmpowered by Christ in His Healing Ministry  PHARISEES \tAs Justified in Their Opposition to Jesus PRAYER As Being Alone with God As Deliverance from SELF As God’s Own Invitation As God’s Promises Fulfilled in Christ As True in the Context of God’s Glory As Wanting What God Determines Necessary as Taught by Jesus When It Requires Our Own Responsibility PREACHING \tCategories \tGenuine as God’s Action through His Spirit \tIn the Apostolic Tradition \tRequires Faithfulness to the Word of God PRIDE \tAs Refusing to Let Jesus Be Our Savior PROPHETIC HERITAGE, OUR \tAs Reverential Fear of God PROVIDENCE \tAs God’s Care for His Own \tNecessitates Human Response PSALMS \tAs Expressive Guides in Our Daily Prayers \tManifest Confidence in Faithfulness of God RECONCILIATION [See 2 Corinthians 5:19] \tAs the Priority of the Father’s Love for the Son RELIGION \tIts True Priority and Promise \tTrue as Continuing Prayer RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE \tAs Godly Fear \tAs God’s Own Enterprise REPENTANCE \tAs Readiness for God’s Grace \tRequired in God’s Promise of Pardon RESURRECTION \tAs General and Gospel Truth RIGHTEOUSNESS \tAs Delight in God SALVATION \tAs Realized in Exertion SANCTIFICATION  \tBeing Identified as Sinner-Saints \tRequires Self-Examination SELF-EXAMINATION \tAs Authentic When in Christ \tAs Being Beyond Introspection SELF-UNDERSTANDING \tAs 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