Just Tell the Truth: A Call to Faith, Hope, and Courage

by Richard Lischer

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2021

Overview

What does it mean to live the Christian life with conviction?

Richard Lischer insists that Christians have a stake in the political and social conflicts that are dividing our culture. In whatever circumstance, Christians are obligated to tell the truth about what it means to be a follower of Jesus.

In Just Tell the Truth, Lischer explores seasons of suffering, hope, and triumph in the light of the gospel. Drawing upon Scripture and the lives of both well-known and anonymous Christians, he helps his readers imagine what truthful living looks like. While remaining biblically and theologically rooted, the sermons eloquently engage the present moment, showing how Christian conviction has a place in the controversial realms of politics, racial justice, and the COVID-19 crisis.

The nourishing meditations in Just Tell the Truth align the rhythm of the gospel with the curvature of human experience, empowering Christians to find the heart of God in what is too often a heartless world.

Key Features

• Explores seasons of suffering, hope, and triumph in the light of the gospel
• Draws upon Scripture and the lives of both well-known and anonymous Christians
• Helps readers imagine what truthful living looks like

Contents

• Introduction
• A Season of Suffering
• Waiting in Hope
• Triumph
• The Life of Faith
• People
• Public Callings

Product Details

• Title: Just Tell the Truth: A Call to Faith, Hope, and Courage
• Author: Richard Lischer
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 210
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian life › Sermons; Sermons, American; Evangelical Lutheran Church in America › Sermons; Lutheran Church › Sermons
• ISBNs: 9780802878847, 0802878849
• Resource ID: LLS:JSTTLLTRTHHPCRG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:59:14Z

About Richard Lischer

A native of St. Louis, Professor Lischer’s graduate theological training is in systematic theology. He is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has nine years of pastoral experience in rural and suburban settings. He joined the Duke Divinity School faculty in 1979 and teaches in the areas of homiletics and ministry. In his scholarly work Dr. Lischer has sought to portray proclamation as an integrated theological activity. He also has explored the interactions of preaching, politics and contemporary culture, notably in The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America and in his most recent book The End of Words. His theological memoir, Open Secrets, evokes the hidden dynamics of ministry in a small-town parish. Professor Lischer has taught and lectured widely in the areas of practical theology, ministry, religious autobiography and preaching. He has held many distinguished lectureships, including the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Academy of Homiletics.