New Wine
Sermons from Passages Unique to John
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The Gospel of John is unique among the gospels in the New Testament. Matthew, Mark and Luke are referred to by the scholars as the synoptic gospels. These gospels report most of the same events from the life and ministry of Jesus. They are so similar in content that there are several books available today that are called gospel parallels or harmony of the gospels. They identify the places where the material in Matthew for example can be found in Mark and Luke. That is not true of John. However, John does report many of the same events and words of Jesus that are found in Matthew, Mark and Luke. John also has a good bit of information about Jesus and his ministry that are not included in the synoptic gospels.
One of the unique features of John is the account of the birth of Jesus. Actually John does not have the historical story of the manger, the angels, the wise men and their star. Instead, John begins with a theological statement about Jesus. You can see that in John 1:1-18.
The sermons in this book are all based on material in John’s gospel which is not included in any of the three synoptic gospels. It is my hope that these sermons will lead you to a new appreciation for what John has written.
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This is a book of sermons based on passages in the Gospel of John which are not included in the synoptic gospels. The book contains some interesting episodes and teachings of Jesus. T.A. Prickett preached these sermons while he was pastor of the former Seven Hills Baptist Church in Kentucky. He served this church for thirty-four years.
About the Author
T.A. Prickett, a native of Verbena, Alabama, was born near the end of the Great Depression in 1934. In 1950, his family moved from rural Verbena to Montgomery, Alabama. In Montgomery, he attended Starke University School, a military school for boys, from which he graduated in 1952. After graduating from Samford University in Birmingham in 1957, he served for three years as associate pastor of Forest Lake Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. He continued his education at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, from which he received two post-graduate degrees. During his seminary days, he was pastor of the Bethabara Baptist Church in Daviess County, Kentucky. He served as pastor of the Seven Hills Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, for thirty-four years, retiring in 1999. He was active in Baptist life in Kentucky, having served in positions of leadership on numerous committees and as an elected officer of the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 1973. Since retirement, T.A. has served as interim pastor in several churches. He has published the following books: We Preach Christ, For Our Age of Anxiety, A Portrait of Jesus, and Faith in Ever'day Clothes. He has also written his memoirs, A Cold Day in July: The Memoirs of a Baptist Preacher.