... , because there is not a magic formula to preach. There is not even a regular pattern to be handed down. There is only a presence to be felt, a hand to be placed in our hand. It is a powerful presence. So be it. 1. Thomas Conley, "Some Cooked Fish and a Blessing: Reality in Religion," The Pulpit of Northside Drive Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, April 17, 1988. 2. Arnold Prater, How Much Faith Does It Take? (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1982). 3. Will Oursler, The Road to Faith (New York: Rinehart ...
... What are the distinctive marks of the new face? Once before, in antiquity, the Jews had faced the issue of having to put out the old. Her promised land, her Davidic Covenant, her temple, and her old language of rewards and punishments had been rendered useless by the Babylonians. She had stripped away that old stuff as emblems of her ... and patience. And over all these virtues put on love which binds them together. 1. As quoted by Thomas Conley, Northside Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, September 21, 1986.
... . That knowledge should greatly strengthen our moral conscience. 1. John Killinger, "Mainline Preaching's Changed Pulpit," The Christian Ministry (September -- October, 1987), pp. 7-9. 2. Thomas H. Conley, "A Mandate: Take Time Out!" Northside Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, October 9, 1988. 3. This insight is found in David Buttrick, "Preaching In An Unbrave New World," The Spire, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, Vol. 13, no. 1, Summer/Fall, 1988. 4. Howard ...
