Preaching and professing : sermons by a teacher seeking to proclaim the Gospel / Ralph C. Wood.

Preaching and hearing
Introduction: The primacy of preaching in Protestant worship
Be hearers of the Word and not doers only
The minister as parson, preacher, and pastor
Hearing the voice of God
The church
"Compel them to come in" : the Gospel as divine command, not consumer choice
The world's heroes and the church's saints
A call for a latter-day reformation of the church
Wrestling Jacob and being named by God
Suffering and service
The no-people who have become God's people
The call of the crucified
The suffering that makes for character
Christians as the little ones, the hobbits of the world
A farewell sermon to a faithful people
The rock that springs with the water of life
Doctrine and the moral life
Christians and Jews : wayfarers through the wasteland
The scandal of our redemption
Loud, dogmatic, and certain : good Christian words
Thou shalt not slay either bodies or souls
Hurrying toward hell
Baptism in a coffin
The Christian year
Waiting, watching, and enduring to the end
Jesus as both Savior and Lord
Hosanna to the King who rides upon a donkey
This cup
The call of the cross and the table
Unwearied hearts ascend
The vocations of ministry and marriage
A fiery red-head called to the ministry of word and sacrament
A rock breaker and a stone builder
The redeeming comedy of marriage
A latter-day Rachel and Jacob
A marriage built on the solid rock
An unhaloed Mississippian saint
A man of godly fear and suffering obedience
Feasting on manna and turnip greens
A grotesque act of repentance
A woman whose name and life sparkled
A teacher who demanded pandemonium
A man alive while dying
A woman who waited for the Lord God
A fearless and funny preacher of the Gospel.