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Revelation is probably the most read, but least understood book of the Bible. In Discipleship on the Edge, Darrell W. Johnson drives home the challenging and practical message of Revelation in thirty carefully crafted sermons. Paying careful attention to the circumstances surrounding its composition, Johnson shows that the book is not a Crystal ball but rather a discipleship manual. Thoroughly researched and accessible, this collection of sermons is a helpful resource for pastors and small group leaders who are looking for models to help them preach and teach from Revelation in a time when there is so much confusion about the future.
Revelation is probably the most read, but least understood book of the Bible. In Discipleship on the Edge, Darrell W. Johnson drives home the challenging and practical message of Revelation in thirty carefully crafted sermons. Paying careful attention to the circumstances surrounding its composition, Johnson shows that the book is not a Crystal ball but rather a discipleship manual. Thoroughly researched and accessible, this collection of sermons is a helpful resource for pastors and small group leaders who are looking for models to help them preach and teach from Revelation in a time when there is so much confusion about the future.
Nowhere is Jesus' brilliance more manifest than in the prayer He taught His disciples to pray, the prayer that has come to be known as the Lord's Prayer. A mere fifty-seven words in the original Greek, the Lord's Prayer gathers up all of life and brings it before God. In eight stirring meditations, Darrell Johnson shows how the Lord's Prayer sums up the essence of Christian faith and, when prayed in faith, draws us into the Triune God's work of transforming the world.
Darrell Johnson's book is for any pastor or student who wants to cultivate a deeper pulpit approach, one that participates in the transforming mystery of God working through our less-than-perfect proclamation. Here is a solid foundation for preaching the good news as if God was living, Jesus was resurrected and the Holy Spirit was faithfully at work among us.
For many people the doctrine of the Trinity is a hopeless puzzle, an outdated philosophical idea far removed from everyday life. What does it all mean? And how can something so mysterious possibly make a difference in our everyday lives?
In Experiencing the Trinity Darrell Johnson shows that this doctrine is not only at the heart of biblical Christianity, but that it is also at the center of Christian experience-of following Jesus Christ in ordinary life and seeing God at work in our human relationships.
At the center of the universe is a relationship, writes Johnson. That is the most fundamental truth I know. It is out of that relationship that you and I were created and redeemed. And it is for that relationship that you and I were created and redeemed.
The most basic and natural way we seek to understand who we are, where we are, what is wrong with us (especially why we die), and how we can be restored is by telling stories. Every culture in every era in every part of the world has a story or stories by which people navigate the mystery of being human on earth.
In this series of expositions, Darrell Johnson suggests that the first eleven chapters of Genesis (what he and others maintain constitute the first half of the Bible) help make sense of all our other stories, for they speak to the fundamental questions we ask in every age. When we inhabit the story (stories) of Genesis 1-11, Johnson further suggests, we come to realize just how good the good news of Jesus Christ is in the second half of the Bible.
Darrell W. Johnson has been preaching the gospel for fifty years, having served with churches in British Columbia, California, and the Philippines. He has taught preaching and pastoral theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Carey College, and Regent College, where in his semi-retirement he serves as teaching fellow. He is the author of eight other books. He and his wife, Sharon, have raised four children (adopted from four different countries of the world) and now enjoy eleven grandchildren.
The Beatitudes found in Matthew 5:1-12 have often been experienced as either frustrating idealism or oppressive legalism. This book will show that they are neither. They are the result of Jesus and His gospel getting a hold on us! Readers of the book will find freedom and encouragement as they understand that in these famous words Jesus is simply describing what He is doing in the people that He calls to Himself. The eight blessed are Jesus speaks from a Galilean mountain are probably the most well-known of all His sayings. Rightly understood, they turn the world up-side down!
Join Darrell Johnson as he looks at Paul's letter to the Ephesian Church through a new lens. Darrell's faithful exposition of this ancient, but deeply relevant, text invites all who read it into the wonder and walk of being fully alive in Christ. Through this letter, we are slowly, but surely, being drawn into an alternative reality. Slowly, we realize that we are not only seeing things differently; thing really are different. Things are not as they seem is Paul's message to his readers. Or, more precisely, Things are not only as they seem.
I first came to know Darrell Johnson through his exceptional work 'Discipleship on the Edge'. His careful and faithful handling of Revelation set a high bar going into Ephesians: The Wonder and Walk of Being Alive in Christ. As I read through this helpful and stirring exposition of Paul's teaching to the church on the 'wonder of grace' and the 'walk of grace' my gratefulness to God increased and I believe this is a much-needed refresher for the people of God in these new and strange days.- MATT CHANDLER, Lead Pastor of The Village Church, Texas, Author of The Explicit Gospel, Take Heart, and Family Discipleship
After setting the people of Israel free from bondage in Egypt, God spoke Ten Words to promote and protect the freedom of His people. Ten words that were crucial in forming Israel's identity as a newly liberated nation, rescued from slavery in Egypt, breathing the fresh air of freedom for the first time.
Today these Ten Words are famously known as the Ten Commandments.
In a day of increasing moral ambiguity and uncertainty, in the midst of the cacophony of differing voices and differing visions of the good life, these Ten Words are an invitation into a life of true human flourishing.
For those seeking right relationship with God and others.
For those looking for guidance in a fractured and broken world.
For those longing for moral clarity in all the confusion.
God gives us these Ten Commandments.
Ten Words endorsed by the Creator of all things.
Ten Words that reflect His character to us.
Ten Words designed by the Creator to bring freedom and life to His people.
That You May Live walks the reader through the power and continued relevance of the Ten Commandments for us today.
The most basic and natural way we seek to understand who we are, where we are, what is wrong with us (especially why we die), and how we can be restored is by telling stories. Every culture in every era in every part of the world has a story or stories by which people navigate the mystery of being human on earth.
In this series of expositions, Darrell Johnson suggests that the first eleven chapters of Genesis (what he and others maintain constitute the first half of the Bible) help make sense of all our other stories, for they speak to the fundamental questions we ask in every age. When we inhabit the story (stories) of Genesis 1-11, Johnson further suggests, we come to realize just how good the good news of Jesus Christ is in the second half of the Bible.
Darrell W. Johnson has been preaching Jesus Christ and His Gospel for over 50 years. He has served a number of Presbyterian congregations in California, Union Church of Manila in the Philippines, and the historic First Baptist Church in the heart of Vancouver, Canada. He has taught preaching for Fuller Theological Seminary, Carey Theological College in Vancouver, and Regent College in Vancouver. He has authored eight books, including The Glory of Preaching and Discipleship on the Edge: An Expository Journey Through Revelation.
He is currently serving as a pastor at The Way Church and Canadian Church Leaders Network.
He and his wife Sharon have been married over 50 years. Together they have raised four children adopted from four different countries of the world, and now enjoy loving 11 active grandchildren!
Darrell W. Johnson ofrece en este libro una visión inspiradora de la predicación. Con base en recursos bíblicos, así como en años de experiencia en el púlpito, muestra que la predicación es algo que trasciende a la mecánica presentación de sermones. Desarrolla el vínculo entre la tarea humana de hablar a una congregación y la acción y presencia real del Cristo vivo en y a través de la proclamación porque, como afirma el autor, cuando Dios habla, siempre ocurre algo.
El libro está dirigido a todos los interesados en cultivar un enfoque de púlpito más profundo, uno que sea instrumento de la acción transformadora de Dios. Invita al lectora comprometerse profundamente con el texto bíblico y lo desafía a hacer uso de su propia personalidad, sus dones y habilidades al comunicar el mensaje del evangelio.