Inscribing the Text: Sermons and Prayers Book

	Editor's Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	On Generosity	3
	The Preacher as Scribe	5
	On Reading the Old Testament	20
	Waiting in Central Casting	21
	On Reading Psalm 1	25
	On Signal: Breaking the Vicious Cycles	27
	On Reading Psalm 116	33
	Strategies for Humanness	35
	On Reading Psalm 104	40
	On People Who Do "Great Things"	41
	On Reading Psalms 50, 88, 109	48
	Uttered beyond Fear	51
	On Reading Genesis 12-25	57
	A Fourth-Generation Sellout	59
	On Reading Genesis 25-50	63
	Misreading the Data	65
	On Enthronement Psalms	69
	Disciples of the Great Connector	71
	On Reading Kings	76
	What a Difference Mercy Makes	79
	On Reading Psalm 2	85
	Newness from God that Unlearns Family	87
	On Reading Joshua and Judges	93
	One Exorcism, One Earthquake, One Baptism ... and Joy	95
	On Reading Psalm 5	101
	The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person Search Committee	103
	On Reading Psalm 4	110
	Dreaming with Freedom midst Chaos	113
	On Reading Exodus 1-15	118
	Joined in Suffering ... Reliant on God's Power	121
	On Beginning Lament Psalms	127
	Missing by Nine Miles	129
	On Reading Samuel	135
	The Big Yes	137
	On Reading the Sinai Pericope	144
	Saints Remembered and Saints to Come	145
	On Reading Psalm 3	152
	The Secret of Survival	155
	On Reading Jeremiah 1	164
	Variations from the Barrio	165
	9/11: One Year Later	175
	Shrill Faith for the Nighttime	179
	On Reading Jeremiah 2	186
	Bragging about the Right Stuff	189
	On Reading Jeremiah 3	198
	"Until" ... Endlessly Enacted, Now Urgent	201
	On Reading Jeremiah 4	209
	A Resurrection Option	211
	On Reading Jeremiah 5	215
	First Class in Psalms	217
	Index of biblical references	219