Helmut Gollwitzer on the Tower of Babel: How to Preach the Old Testament by Example (April 11, 2019)

The Way to Life: Sermons in a Time of World Crisis is a collection of sermons by Helmut Gollwitzer (an assistant of Karl Barth), and one of which is an excellent exposition of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) that exemplifies how to preach etiological saga in the Old Testament […]

Related: Ancient Near East, ANE, Genesis 11, Helmut Gollwitzer, Karl Barth, Nationalism, pentecost, Preaching, The Way to Life, Tower of Babel

Karl Barth on the Pentecost: Jesus is Standing in the Midst (March 22, 2017)

In the early 1920's, Karl Barth preached a sermon on Pentecost to his tiny church in Safenwil, Switzerland. In this sermon, "Come, Creator Spirit!", Barth says that Christians today have much more in common with the strangers and immigrants who came together at Pentecost, than to the Apostles; these immigrants […]

Related: CD III/2, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics III/2, Come, Come Creator Spirit, Glossolalia, Holy Spirit, Karl Barth, pentecost, Safenwil

Jürgen Moltmann on the Speaking in Tongues (April 18, 2015)

My eyes were first open to Christ Jesus in a Pentecostal church when I was five years old in southern Michigan. I remember being afraid of drowning during the baptismal immersion. I remember the waters were as cold as ice, and then afterwards, violently trembling in the wintry cold basement of […]

Related: Glossolalia, Jürgen Moltmann, pentecost, Pentecostal, Speaking in Tongues, Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation, Vinson Synan