Emphasis Preaching Journal

Paul's words about looking to things unseen are out of step with a culture that understands identity in terms of possession. A book the preacher will find suggestive in thinking of life and death as Paul does is Death and Life, An American Theology, by the late Arthur C. McGill who at the time of his death in 1980 was Bussey Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. (Fortress Press) McGill contends that our looking to things seen, our preoccupation with health, good looks, and material success is a retreat from death. -- Kolsti