Treasure in Earthen Vessels: Homilies about God's Good News in the Lives of Real People Like You and Me

by Joseph Mark Vought

Overview

What could the following people have in common: a member of the Hitler Youth; a young couple pregnant before marriage; a woman and a chaplain in an ICU; a bride pouring communion wine all over her gown; a long-haul trucker baptized in a birdbath; a college kid arrested for being disorderly; and a Holocaust survivor meeting his rescuer after sixty-five years? Saint Paul would make the list. Writing after his conversion, Paul explains, "For I am the least of the apostles because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain" (1 Cor 15:9-10). This good news of God is the treasure ordinary Christians have proclaimed and shared throughout history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666790283
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	12/23/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	82
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

A native of Pennsylvania, Joseph Mark Vought received an MDiv from The Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Ordained in 1983, he served Lutheran congregations in Baltimore, Maryland. and Richmond, Virginia. where he was a chaplain on Virginia's death row. He served Muhlenberg Lutheran of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and the campus ministry at James Madison University. In 2008 he was called to Community Lutheran, Sterling, Virginia, and retired from ministry in 2019. He currently serves as chaplain at the National Cathedral one day a month preaching and presiding at Holy Eucharist.