Hear the Just Word & Live It

by Walter J. Burghardt

So many people hear without listening--especially to sermons. In this book Walter Burghardt, one of the country's best preachers, moves to "the other side of the rail" and explains how to listen to the Word. Listening is a risk, an act of love, an act of being truly present and truly human. Burghardt begins by explaining the "Just Word"--God's plan for salvation taking place within a specific community. He then connects the Word to today's headlines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809139308
• ISBN13: 9780809139309
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 4.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

"Reader friendly" and recommended for lay readers & pastors.

In Hear The Just Word & Live It, Walter Burghardt explains how to listen to the Word, and that listening is a risk, an act of love, an act of being truly resent and truly human. Written for a wide ecumenical audience, Hear The Just Word & Live It provides concrete, highly recommended, "reader friendly" help for both lay readers and the pastors who are trying to reach them with the Christian gospel.