Sermon from Archives Points to Holiness and Humanity
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The Rev. Dr. Charles Adams (upper left).
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The Rev. Dr. Charles Adams (upper left).
The Rev. Dr. Charles Adams (upper left).
New to the Living Tradition online resource for preaching: Duke Divinity School Professor David Goatley recommends listening to a sermon preached at Duke Chapel in 1996 by the Rev. Dr. Charles Adams, a Baptist minister and the William and Lucille Nickerson Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Titled The Humanity of God, the sermon is based on Jesus’s parable of the sheep and goats in which Jesus says, “Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”
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Professor David Goatley
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Professor David Goatley
Professor David Goatley
Professor Goatley says Adams “moves swiftly between polarities, names dichotomies, exposes the incoherence of how many Christians say one thing but do another, and shows how God reveals Godself in holiness and in humanity.”
“[Adams] reminds us of the both the judgement and grace of God and calls us to understand that love demands our faith to be made known in service to those who would be dismissed and despised,” Professor Goatley says. “The God of holiness judges us by the victims of the world, but there is hope for us through the love of God, the grace of Christ and the power of the Spirit."
Read the recommendation by Professor Goatley and find a link to Rev. Dr. Adams’s sermon.