Greg Johnston
Sermons and Bible Studies
Bible Study: Proper 5 (B) – 2018
1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15) One of the great problems of human life in community is what the sociologist Max Weber called the “routinization of charisma.” Is it possible to take what we have achieved under the leadership of a single, extraordinary individual and create rules and systems that will allow that success to […]
Bible Study: Lent 5 (B) – 2018
Jeremiah 31:31-34 The prophet Jeremiah was active in the final years of the kingdom of Judah, leading up to the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BC and the Jewish people’s exile in Babylon. In the face of this impending destruction, he nevertheless foresaw a restored life for the people, […]
Bible Study: Advent 2 (B) – 2017
Isaiah 40:1-11 Many scholars identify this oracle as the beginning of “Second Isaiah” (Isaiah 40-55), in which a disciple of the earlier prophet Isaiah of Jerusalem takes up some of the themes of the oracles recorded in “First Isaiah” (Isaiah 1-39) and applies them to the later experience of the 6th-century BC exile in Babylon. […]
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