Harbingers of Hope (Hull Legacy Series) - Hardcover

Hull, William E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931985162 ISBN 13: 9781931985161

Publisher: Samford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In a world filled with disappointments and frustrations, here is a book that points to sources of enduring hope. Centuries ago, harbingers were trailblazers who went ahead of an army or royal party to find secure places where the group could camp and to announce their impending arrival. Dr. Hull uses scripture as a guide to the future that God is preparing for those who want the divine promises to be fulfilled in their lives.
The journey to which this book beckons has five stages. At the outset we meet a restless God of surprises who is never satisfied with things as they are. This encounter discloses the necessity of making transforming changes in our lives if we are to keep pace with the divine dynamic. Our reorientation toward an attitude of expectancy is not an end itself but provides the impetus for a lifelong process of growth toward maturity. Because this quest takes place in a world resistant to changes that challenge the status quo, there will be opposition, setbacks, even defeats that God endures with us as the cost of building a new tomorrow. In that struggle our task is not to flee or to fight but to bear a winsome witness in the confidence that God’s purposes will finally prevail over the human predicament.
Just as the crowing cock is a harbinger of dawn and the robin on the lawn is a harbinger of spring, these 27 messages become harbingers of a steadfast hope, as they help us to anticipate the new future that God is seeking to create for his weary world and as they invite us to actualize that future in the here and now.

About this title

About the Author:

William E. Hull is Research Professor at Samford University and Theologian-in-Residence at Mountain Brook Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Alabama. The author of 12 books and contributor to 24 others, Dr. Hull has lectured widely on college and seminary campuses in addition to serving as a civic advocate in the cities where he and his family have lived.

Review:

“Throughout a lifetime as professor, pastor, administrator, and 24-hour-a-day thinker about what it means to be a Christ–follower, Bill Hull has cultivated an indescribable capacity to juxtapose the Christian faith against the great ideas of modern man. These pages strip-mine the intellect of one of the most analytical, synthesizing, eclectic minds ever to grace the Christian pulpit.” —Thomas E. Corts, President Emeritus, Samford University

“Bill Hull is quite simply one of the most provocative thinkers produced by Baptists in the South in the past generation.” —J. Wayne Flynt, University Professor Emeritus, Auburn University

About this edition

• Publisher: Samford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1931985162
• ISBN 13: 9781931985161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320