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Hebrews is a powerful meditation on the gospel. It is a sixty-minute sermon delivered to a worshiping congregation. The spiraling impact of theological exposition and pastoral exhortation is impressive. Hebrews weans us away from our preoccupation with the start of the Christian life and focuses our attention on the perseverance of faith. Life is not a sprint; it's a marathon. Faithfulness to the end affirms faith from the beginning. If we let the word of God have its way with us, Hebrews will deepen our faith in Christ and strengthen our faithfulness. Like Jesus in the Gospels, Hebrews sees the fundamental difference between apostasy and faithfulness as the difference between a religion about God and a Christ-centered relationship with God. Any form of Christianity that competes like other religions for the attention of its adherents through its rituals, practices, pastors, traditions, and sacred spaces, has fallen back into an obsolete and worldly strategy. The pastor calls for a decisive end to religion, even the best religion ever conceived. The flow of reasoned argument for Christ and against religion, along with the pulsating emotional intensity of ultimate issues laid bare, and heart-felt warnings against complacency and unbelief, deliver a powerful and timely message. ""Most scholars believe that Hebrews began life as an exhortation preached to a congregation. So who better to engage with it than a very fine preacher and astute theological thinker? In this work Doug Webster provides the reader with a multitude of insights into the text and meaningful, relevant applications to today's culture and church life."" --Graham A. Cole, Dean, Vice President of Education, Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ""Douglas Webster's treatment of Hebrews is fresh, focused, and foundational. While wide reading of other writers is evident, his own deep understanding of this central New Testament writing is vividly present, and his pastoral application of its message is steadily before the reader."" --James Earl Massey, Dean Emeritus, Professor-at-Large, Anderson University School of Theology ""This book shows us how a twenty-first-century preacher can apply the great biblical sermon that we know as the Epistle to the Hebrews. In a series of lively and hard-hitting chapters, Dr. Webster takes us into the heart of the gospel message and demonstrates that it is as relevant today as it was when it was first proclaimed."" --Gerald Bray, Research Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School ""Have you ever wished that a pastor or teacher would sit down with you and some friends for a fireside chat to explain clearly the entire Letter of Hebrews? Then you should read this book by Doug Webster, an enthusiastic pastor-teacher who will help you catch the fire, the warnings, the encouragements, and the grand vision of Hebrews for life today."" --James W. Skillen, President (retired), Center for Public Justice Douglas D. Webster is professor of pastoral theology and preaching at Beeson Divinity School and a teaching pastor at The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.
Hebrews is a powerful meditation on the gospel. It is a sixty-minute sermon delivered to a worshiping congregation. The spiraling impact of theological exposition and pastoral exhortation is impressive. Hebrews weans us away from our preoccupation with the start of the Christian life and focuses our attention on the perseverance of faith. Life is not a sprint; it's a marathon. Faithfulness to the end affirms faith from the beginning. If we let the word of God have its way with us, Hebrews will deepen our faith in Christ and strengthen our faithfulness. Like Jesus in the Gospels, Hebrews sees the fundamental difference between apostasy and faithfulness as the difference between a religion about God and a Christ-centered relationship with God. Any form of Christianity that competes like other religions for the attention of its adherents through its rituals, practices, pastors, traditions, and sacred spaces, has fallen back into an obsolete and worldly strategy. The pastor calls for a decisive end to religion, even the best religion ever conceived. The flow of reasoned argument for Christ and against religion, along with the pulsating emotional intensity of ultimate issues laid bare, and heart-felt warnings against complacency and unbelief, deliver a powerful and timely message. ""Most scholars believe that Hebrews began life as an exhortation preached to a congregation. So who better to engage with it than a very fine preacher and astute theological thinker? In this work Doug Webster provides the reader with a multitude of insights into the text and meaningful, relevant applications to today's culture and church life."" --Graham A. Cole, Dean, Vice President of Education, Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ""Douglas Webster's treatment of Hebrews is fresh, focused, and foundational. While wide reading of other writers is evident, his own deep understanding of this central New Testament writing is vividly present, and his pastoral application of its message is steadily before the reader."" --James Earl Massey, Dean Emeritus, Professor-at-Large, Anderson University School of Theology ""This book shows us how a twenty-first-century preacher can apply the great biblical sermon that we know as the Epistle to the Hebrews. In a series of lively and hard-hitting chapters, Dr. Webster takes us into the heart of the gospel message and demonstrates that it is as relevant today as it was when it was first proclaimed."" --Gerald Bray, Research Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School ""Have you ever wished that a pastor or teacher would sit down with you and some friends for a fireside chat to explain clearly the entire Letter of Hebrews? Then you should read this book by Doug Webster, an enthusiastic pastor-teacher who will help you catch the fire, the warnings, the encouragements, and the grand vision of Hebrews for life today."" --James W. Skillen, President (retired), Center for Public Justice Douglas D. Webster is professor of pastoral theology and preaching at Beeson Divinity School and a teaching pastor at The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.
"With his characteristic balance, which avoids the common pitfalls of spiritually anemic superficiality or spiritually oppressive moralism, Doug Webster reclaims the Sermon on the Mount as the key to a robust, grace-centered life in Christ. Through a trenchant analysis of the unique features and cross pressures of our secular age, Webster reveals why this is still the best sermon ever preached. Webster's guide to the Jesus way is necessary for every follower of Christ today. I highly recommend it." --Jason Harris, Central Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, New York"I've read many commentaries on the Sermon on the Mount with great benefit, but none of them have related Jesus' classic message to the twenty-first century like Douglas Webster's short overview. With references to Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Newbigin, Taylor, Hunter, and many others, Doug shows us, at a deep level, how radical this sermon really is. After you read this and think about it, you'll want to ask God to help you be an authentic follower of Jesus in our age." --Sandy Willson, pastor emeritus, Second Presbyterian Church, MemphisDouglas D. Webster (PhD, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto) is professor of pastoral theology and Christian preaching at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. He was the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of San Diego (1993-2007) and has taught at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, Canada, and served churches in Toronto, Bloomington, Indiana, and Denver, Colorado.
It's one thing to market cars and deodorant and hamburgers. It's another thing, says Doug Webster, to market Jesus and the gospel. Standing up to a spate of books and seminars that urge churches to model their mission on Madison Avenue methods, Webster sounds an urgently needed wake-up alarm. Selling Jesus is a hard-hitting book that shows how Jesus is more than a product to be hawked, how seekers are more than a matter of meeting ""felt needs."" But Selling Jesus doesn't merely challenge. It moves beyond penetrating criticism to the next step, suggesting faithful and powerful alternatives to marketing the church. Selling Jesus is a necessary book for those who are beginning to wonder if evangelism and missions really aren't synonymous with product promotion.
