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This volume contains Walter Brueggemann’s most recent public sermons and prayers. With captivating and convicting messages for this rebellious age, Brueggemann nourishes the Christian spirit and challenges the fickle heart. With the deep theological scholarship one would expect of Brueggemann, and the surprising passion and dynamism of a youthful spirit, Inscribing the Text is full of the insight...

I identify five marks of these disciples, the human agents who do divine miracles in the real world: 1. The disciples are sent out to do transformative acts in the world that other people regard as impossible: The kingdom of heaven has come near. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. (vv. 7–8) The reason these actions can be done is that the world is under new management, even if the world does not yet recognize that new rule. All of these actions—healing, cleansing,
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