MacDonald Lite
MacDonald Lite is all about the Forest and the Trees, the CONTEXT of the Sermons. He wrote from the broad view of the Forest, the sequence of the Trees, and the fine details of the Leaves. He is remembered and referred to most by his leaves, the golden quotes from one of the most beautiful wordsmiths of our time.
I want to use the metaphor of puzzles to help discuss the context for MacDonald’s Sermons. I personally adopted this metaphor to talk about my own life and journey. In the first half of my life, I collected puzzle pieces, those moments, insights, and thoughts from the Spirit. And I have been handed and even created some box tops of my own based on my own views. However, in my forties, I met Baxter Kruger. Baxter painted the most beautiful picture
of the love and acceptance of the Triune God of Life. These last thirty-odd years, I gathered more pieces, the leaves, and assembled more of the image elements, trees, filling out more and more of the box top image.
Using this language is how I want to talk about the “Unspoken Sermons” as well. As in any puzzle project, you work around inside the image. We are placing pieces on the board, forming the different elements of the picture. Of course, the key to all this is seeing the Box Top! Without it, we can misinterpret the pieces and the elements we see. Without the Box Top, we can draw all kinds of conclusions that will mislead our hearts into believing things about God that are not true of Them!
MacDonald was a master painter. He has painted in the Sermons a beautiful image of a relational God, as Father, Brother, and Tutor working together to bring us into Their Life! This masterpiece has both the broad strokes of color in the large vistas of land and sky and also in the infinite details in its smaller elements of our participation.
Back away a bit for a few moments, and allow the Spirit to reveal its context, the broad strokes of this Master Piece!
This Sidebar Menu is a guide to all things Unspoken Sermons – Lite. The first section is an overview of the book with a brief view of its Thesis. Each Series includes an overview as well with the sermons listed and link below them.
Series One Overview
It Shall not be Forgiven
The New Name
The Heart of the Treasure
The Temptation in the Wilderness
The Eloi
The Hands of the Father
Love your Neighbor
Love your Enemy
The God of the Living
Series Two Overview
Series Three Overview