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The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness is unavailable, but you can change that!

These 22 sermons from a master interpreter demonstrate how ancient texts can speak to the whole gamut of human experience even now. Included in Walter Brueggemann’s preview are keen observations about the timeless issues of human life, both personal and social: the pain we face, often inflicted on each other; the use and abuse of power; the weakness and fragility of life; the redemptive power of...

to host the hidden, inscrutable, unresolved purpose of God for his life that is beyond his control. He is willing to trust that there is a larger purpose being acted out in and through him, which he must honor and to which he must respond, even if it means denying his first raw inclination of anger and hate. Thus, after he announces his name, “I am Joseph,” he does two things. First, he gives assurance to his brothers that he is not going to kill them. He is not going to continue the vicious circle
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