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Horace Bushnell

1802–1876 · Congregationalist · Hartford, Connecticut

Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), Congregationalist pastor of the North Church, Hartford, Connecticut, from 1833 to 1859. His works Christian Nurture and God in Christ made him the most influential and controversial American theologian of his generation.

66 sermons

  1. Mary, the mother of Jesus
    Luke 1:28 · No. 1
  2. Christ Waiting to Find Room
    Luke 2:7 · No. 1
  3. Every Man’s Life a Plan of God
    Isaiah 45:5 · No. 1
  4. The Spirit in Man
    Job 32:8 · No. 2
  5. Loving God is but letting God love us
    John 1:4 · No. 2
  6. The Genteness of God
    Psalms 18:35 · No. 2
  7. Dignity of Human Nature Shown from Its Ruins
  8. Feet and wings
    Ezekiel 1:24 · No. 3
  9. The Insight of Love
    Mark 14:8 · No. 3
  10. The Hunger of the Soul
    Luke 15:17 · No. 4
  11. The gospel of the face
  12. Salvation for the Lost Condition
    Matthew 18:11 · No. 4
  13. The completing of the soul
  14. The Fasting and Temptation of Jesus
  15. The Reason of Faith
    John 6:36 · No. 5
  16. The immediate knowledge of God
  17. Conviction of Sin by the Cross
  18. Regeneration
    John 3:3 · No. 6
  19. Christ Asleep
    Matthew 8:24 · No. 7
  20. Religious nature and religious character
    Acts 17:27 · No. 7
  21. The Personal Love and Lead of Christ
    John 10:3 · No. 7
  22. Christian Ability
    James 3:4 · No. 8
  23. The property right we are to get in God
  24. Light on the Cloud
    Job 37:21 · No. 8
  25. The Capacity of Religion Extirpated by Disuse
    Matthew 25:28 · No. 9
  26. Integrity and Grace
    Psalms 7:8 · No. 9
  27. The dissolving of doubts
    Daniel 5:16 · No. 9
  28. Liberty and Discipline
    Mark 2:19 · No. 10
  29. Unconscious Influence
    John 20:8 · No. 10
  30. Christ regenerates even the desires
    Mark 10:35 · No. 10
  31. Christ’s Agony, or Moral Suffering
    Luke 22:44 · No. 11
  32. A single trial better than many
    No. 11
  33. Obligation a Privilege
    Psalms 119:54 · No. 11
  34. Self-examination examined
    Psalms 26:2 · No. 12
  35. Happiness and Joy
    John 15:11 · No. 12
  36. The Physical Suffering, or Cross of Christ
    Hebrews 2:10 · No. 12
  37. How to be a Christian in trade
    No. 13
  38. Salvation by Man
  39. The True Problem of Christian Experience
    Revelation 2:4 · No. 13
  40. In and by things temporal are given things eternal
  41. The Lost Purity Restored
    1 John 3:3 · No. 14
  42. The Bad Consciousness Taken Away
    Hebrews 10:2 · No. 14
  43. Living to God in Small Things
    Luke 16:10 · No. 15
  44. The Bad Mind Makes a Bad Element
    John 8:48 · No. 15
  45. God organizing in the church his eternal society
    Hebrews 12:22 · No. 15
  46. Present Relations of Christ with His Followers
    John 14:28 · No. 16
  47. Routine observance indispensable
  48. The Power of an Endless Life
    Hebrews 8:16 · No. 16
  49. Respectable Sin
    John 8:9 · No. 17
  50. Our advantage in being finite
    No. 17
  51. The Wrath of the Lamb
  52. The outside saints
    Acts 10:34–35 · No. 18
  53. The Power of God in Self-Sacrifice
  54. Christian Forgiveness
    Ephesians 4:32 · No. 18
  55. Free to amusements, and too free to want them
    No. 19
  56. Duty Not Measured by Our Own Ability
    Luke 9:13 · No. 19
  57. Christ Bearing the Sins of Transgressors
    Hebrews 9:28 · No. 19
  58. The military discipline
  59. He That Knows God Will Confess Him
    Psalms 40:10 · No. 20
  60. The Putting on of Christ
    Romans 13:14 · No. 20
  61. Heaven Opened
    John 1:31 · No. 21
  62. The Efficiency of the Passive Virtues
    Revelation 1:9 · No. 21
  63. The coronation of the Lamb
    Revelation 22:1 · No. 21
  64. Spiritual Dislodgements
    Jeremiah 48:8 · No. 22
  65. Our relations to Christ in the future life
  66. Christ as Separate from the World
    Hebrews 7:26 · No. 23
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