In Season and Out: Sermons for the Christian Year
In Season and Out
Grow in the Scriptures throughout the church year with David deSilva as your mentor.
Beginning with Advent and moving through the church year, David deSilva brings his years of experience as a biblical scholar to the church in the form of sermons delivered to his home congregation throughout the church year, now adapted into a thoughtful and inspiring collection of reflections.
These reflections will inform and inspire your understanding of Scripture, written with Dr. deSilva’s characteristic warmth and wisdom. In Season and Out makes for excellent devotional reading that will feed saints both in front of and behind the pulpit.
Praise for In Season and Out
...an inspiring collection of heartfelt exhortations from a scholar-pastor.
–Ivor Poobalan, Principal, Colombo Theological Seminary, Sri Lanka; Co-Chair, Theology Working Group of the Lausanne Movement
...refreshing sermons for their clarity and constancy in articulating the call to follow the living Word as mediated by the church’s worship of God through the Christian year.
–Michael Pasquarello III, Beeson Professor of Methodist Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
Top Highlights
“the giving of the Holy Spirit in fulfillment of Israel’s expectations of what would happen ‘in the last days.’” (Page 139)
“What, then, is the work that the master has laid upon us, to occupy us in this interim?” (Page 8)
“The old Pentecost celebrated God’s giving of the Law to regulate his people; this new Pentecost celebrated God’s pouring out of the Holy Spirit to inspire his people with all manner of divine communication and guidance, and to empower them for righteousness and mission—indeed, to make himself wonderfully present in their midst and, through them, in the midst of the world.” (Page 139)
“bear witness to and extend his kingdom, his hope, his love, his provision, his justice everywhere that there is need” (Page 9)
“a chance to examine ourselves and to realign our lives, both as individual disciples and as a church family” (Page 4)
Contents
- Part One: Sermons for Liturgical Seasons
- Our Wake-Up Call (Advent)
- A Messiah Nobody Expected (Advent)
- A Mother for God’s Son (Advent)
- Prepare Him Room (Christmas)
- Living into Baptism (Baptism of Our Lord)
- A Necessary Spoiler (Transfiguration)
- The Divine Source Code (Lent)
- Letting in the Light (Lent)
- How Far Is Enough? (Palm Sunday)
- A New Commandment (Maundy Thursday)
- Living Like You’ll Live Forever (Easter)
- Our Great High Priest (Ascension)
- Should We Let Him In? (Pentecost)
- New Spirit, New Heart (Pentecost)
- An Unfailing Endowment (Pentecost)
- A New Pentecost (Pentecost)
- The Arithmetic of God (Trinity Sunday)
- A Surprisingly Satisfying Spread (World Communion Sunday)
- Who’s Watching You Run? (All Saints)
- Just Remember Who’s Boss (Christ the King)
- Part Two: Sermons for Ordinary Time
- God’s Bottom-Line Performance Metrics
- Jesus Christ, Investment Planner
- From Consumers to Producers
- Faith Is Just the Beginning
- The Least Valued, the Most Honored
- The Lord’s Prayer, the Disciples’ Pledge
- Knowing Christ
- Growing More Like Christ
- Going to Serve Christ
Product Details
- Title: In Season and Out: Sermons for the Christian Year
- Author: David A. deSilva
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 256
- Format: Logos Digital, Paperback
- Trim Size: 5x8
- ISBN: 9781683592914
Dr. David A. deSilva, PhD, is the Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio, where he’s taught since 1995.
He’s written over 20 books in the areas of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism, including Unholy Allegiances: Heeding Revelation's Warning (Hendrickson, 2013), The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude (Oxford, 2012),Seeing Things John’s Way: The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation (WJKP, 2009), An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation (IVP, 2004), Introducing the Apocrypha (Baker Academic, 2002), and Perseverance in Gratitude: A Socio-rhetorical Commentary on the Epistle “to the Hebrews” (Eerdmans, 2000). He’s also interested in spiritual formation, having written Sacramental Life: Spiritual Formation through the Book of Common Prayer (IVP, 2008) and Praying with John Wesley (Discipleship Resources, 2001).
He’s ordained in the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church, and serves as director of music and organist at Christ United Methodist Church in Ashland. He and his wife, Donna Jean, have three sons.