Franzmann truly was a bright star in the Lutheran church. His hymns and exegetical works are standouts. Here in this all too small book is a tiny collection of sermons. This is the very best sermons I have ever heard. This guy was some kind of wordsmith, e.g. If We Walk in the Light, The Man Who Went Home With Only A Word In His Pocket, etc. Only downer is there is not enough!

Using Luke's usage of this phrase "the word of the Lord grows," Acts 6:7,12:24, 19:20, this NT scholar provides a framework to in Franzman's words: "wear a path through my NT both historically and theologically." Wonderfully he achieves his goal.

I truly cut my NT teeth using this book as that map and still turn to it often to get my bearings. Each NT book is covered by isagogical matters, who wrote it, when, theological meaning, outline.

To provide a faint taste of this man's skill with words, this offering on the historical character of the NT: "The apostles are not religious geniuses, whose insights enrich and enlarge accumulated religious stores of mankind. They are recipients of revelation, witnesses to a Person and an act in history - and this Person and this act completely overshadow and dominate them. They are important, not for themselves, but for what they bear witness to."

Highly recommended!