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David H. C. Read. Preacher

Preacher

Table of Contents

Introduction

Jesus, the Killer of Hate

We Belong to God

God’s Love—A New Pope and an Old Text

The Gospel in the Galaxies: What Message for Mars?

“This World, with Devils Filled”: Luther’s Answer and Ours

The Resurrection of the Body

Thanksgiving: The Smug and the Saintly

Advent Parables: Oil Crisis for the Bridesmaids

Advent Parables: The Case Of The Troublesome Tenants

Advent Parables: The Forgiven Who Forgot

Christmas Tales for All Ages

“How Silently”

P. S. God Loves You

The Christ We Admire: The Christ We Worship

Growing with the Gospel: Points at Which My Mind Has Changed

The Organ and the Vacuum Cleaner: A Note on “Creationism”

Life with Prayer in It

Amok in Eden: Ecology for Christians

Am I a Racist?

The Psalm on the Avenue

Root Questions for Lent: What Makes Me a Christian?

Strong Stories for Lent: The Cross of Moses

Roots of a Living Faith: The Grip of a Loving God

Root Questions for Lent: “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”—What Then?

“The Stones Cry Out”: A Palm Sunday Challenge

Maundy Thursday: “Room at the Inn”

Good Friday: “Today Shalt Thou Be with Me in Paradise”

Easter Day: Resurrection! Why I Believe

How to Hear the Easter Story

Easter Belief: A Crutch or a Goad?

Other People’s Religion

Is God a Bore?

Mother’s Day: Home-Made Religion

Ezra—The Preacher at the Watergate

Pentecost Sunday: Alive Inside

God of the Galaxies: God of the Sparrow

A Big Enough God

1940—2020: God in Our Past and Future

Independence—Under God

“You’re Not Lost—You’re Here”

A Selection of David H. C. Read’s Books

Selected Reviews

Virginia Woolf Meets Charlie Brown

Acknowledgments

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David H. C. Read’s Sermons at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church

Edited by John McTavish

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Here’s how it happened.

During the summer of 1955, free from his chaplaincy duties, David Read had accepted an invitation to spell off two ministers in North America on their holidays. The month of July was spent preaching at Deer Park United Church in Toronto, and catching up with a number of Canadian cousins. Then in August, Read went to New York to occupy the pulpit at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church where, even on sweltering summer Sundays, over a thousand worshippers normally formed the congregation.

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