What's Good about This News?: Preaching from the Gospels and Galatians (The Lyman Beecher Lectures)

In this study of the Gospels and the book of Galatians David Bartlett explores how to reconcile the biblical texts message to our contemporary context and a particular congregations character and need. While as he shows important continuities exist in the way the good news is understood throughout the New Testament precisely what it looks like and how Christians respond to it differs between Mark Paul John and the rest of the writers. Consequently he demonstrates preachers have options as they try to discern what news a congregation needs to hear on a particular Sunday. Including sample sermons Whats Good about This News? shows how each of these biblical texts remains a redemptive word for todays people.