Teaching: Imperfect Peace - Teaching Sermons on Troubling Texts

Imperfect Peace is a collection of nine sermons--with a preface--on major controversial topics that trouble Christian pulpits in our era: divorce, homosexuality, God's wrath, dishonesty, and other issues. CONTENTS 1. "Whoever Divorces" (Matthew 5:31-32; 19:3-9) 2. "Women Should Be Silent in the Churches" (1 Corinthians 14:26-40; 1 Timothy 2:8-15) 3. "Uneasy Peace" (Genesis 31:44-55) 4. "To Lie With a Male as With a Woman" (Leviticus 18:19-30; Acts 8:26-40) 5. "The Revenge of Dinah's Honor" (Genesis 34; Matthew 5:38-48) 6. "No One Comes to the Father Except Through Me" (John 14:1-7) 7. "The Flood" (Genesis 6--8; Isaiah 41:4b-10) 8. "Can't I Do Anything Right?" (Isaiah 64:1-9) 9. "Blessed Are the Clever?" (Luke 16:1-9) These nine sermons deal respectively with Divorce, Exclusion in the Church, The Problem of Mistrust, Homosexuality, Vengeance and Forgiveness, Universalism, God's Wrath, The Pervasiveness of Sin, and Dishonesty.