The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Overview

This wonderful collection of sermons by renowned preacher, author, and speaker Barbara Brown Taylor is based on the Gospel of Matthew. Each of the fifteen sermons, three of them appearing here for the first time in print, is based on a reading from Matthew, including "Exceeding Righteousness" (Matthew 5:17-20), "The Problem with Miracles" (14:13-21), "Family Fights" (18:15-20), "Once More from the Heart" (18:21-35), "Beginning at the End" (20:1-16), and "On the Clouds of Heaven" (24:29-44).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664228866
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	09/06/2004
Pages:	113
Sales rank:	193,688
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barbara Brown Taylor is Harry R. Butman Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in Piedmont, Georgia and Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is the author of many books, including An Altar in the World. She is an at-large editor for The Christian Century and a sometime commentator on Georgia Public Radio.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the New Edition	vii
	Introduction to the 1990 Edition	xi
1.	Exceeding Righteousness	1
2.	The Marginal Messiah	9
3.	The Open Yoke	15
4.	The Extravagant Sower	23
5.	Learning to Live with Weeds	31
6.	The Seeds of Heaven	39
7.	The Problem with Miracles	47
8.	Saved by Doubt	55
9.	Crossing the Line	61
10.	God's Rock	69
11.	Risking Life	75
12.	Family Fights	83
13.	Once More from the Heart	91
14.	Beginning at the End	99
15.	On the Clouds of Heaven	107