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Jesse Mercer's Pulpit
Preaching in a Community of Faith and Learning
Edited by Wilfred C. Platt, Jr. and Douglas Thompson
Sermons preached in Jesse Mercer's pulpit at Mercer University
This book is a collection of sermons by Mercer University faculty and staff preached during University Worship between 2001 and 2005. The sermons engage the ways we encounter God in our daily lives. Using themes to arrange the sermons into one of four sections, each contributor attunes the reader to the presence of the Holy in our lives and the variety of vocations to which we are called. The volume includes an essay by Wilfred Platt on worship at Mercer from the founding of the institution to 2005.
Contributors include: Richard F. Wilson, Margaret Dee Bratcher, Jack L. Sammons, Marc A. Jolley, Bryan Whitfield, Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford, Kay Wilson Shurden, D. Gregory Sapp, John M. Dunaway, Paul Lewis, C. Jay Pendleton, Richard C. Fallis, Darlene Flaming, Janell Johnson, W. Loyd Allen, R. Scott Nash, Mary Alice Morgan, Frank J. Macke, Anya Silver, and John Claypool.
Wilfred C. Platt, Jr. is a graduate of Furman University, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ohio University and the University of Georgia. From 1966 until 2000 he was a member of the department of historyof Mercer’s College of Liberal Arts. He also served as associate dean of the College for sixteen years. As Professor of History, Emeritus, he has taught part-time and, from 2002 until 2005, directed the Honors Program for the College. He is currently associate editor of the Bulletin of Mercer’s Center for Baptist Studies.
Douglas Thompson is a graduate of Old Dominion University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the University of Virginia. Dr. Thompson is a member of the InterdisciplinaryStudies faculty and teaches in the Southern Studies Concentration of the College of Liberal Arts of Mercer University. From 2002-2005, Doug served as coordinator of University Worship on the Macon campus. Doug, his wife Kerri and their two sons live in Macon, Georgia. Titles of Related Interest
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