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The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word is unavailable, but you can change that!

Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentering, destabilizing, always risky word that confronts us in Scripture—if we have the courage to hear. These powerful essays, previously available only in journals, are here combined with a newly composed preface and introduction. Includes a foreword from the Reverend...

We show up like Zedekiah: Is there a word from the Lord? The king showed up to ask “secretly” … not unlike Nicodemus who came “by night” to Jesus (John 3:2). The king came because his city was besieged by the Babylonians, before whom he could not stand. The king came because his conventional “support system” and his “intelligence community” had exhausted their resources and had no clue. The king came because he hoped that his present dire circumstance did not need to be his final truth. The king
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