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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...

“I will, I will, I will … so come, you go.” What a turn-around. The trick is that all of these glorious things God has resolved to do are now abruptly assigned to Moses as human work. It is, moreover, dangerous human work. You be the liberator! You go to Pharaoh! You go to the big house and confront the entrenched, oppressive powers. You care enough to make the case for this bondaged people. What had been “I, I, I” now is suddenly “You, you, you.” What happens in one quick rhetorical flourish is
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