The Faith Once Delivered

Drawing on such canonical sources as Shakespeare, Arrested Development, U2, and many more, this collection of sermons connects the Good News about Jesus to our everyday life with wit and grace. Presenting Scripture's own sober view of things, Paul Walker diagnoses the pain, guilt, and failure that so often plague us. But amid that bleak account of our experience, the preacher's punch line is always the same: Christ died and rose again to heal, pardon, and free us. For every circumstance, these sermons remind us of the Gospel's sustaining hope.

This book is a historical examination of the original Christian church founded in the first century and described in the New Testament. It compares its beliefs and conduct with modern churches and traces its historical development and the influences it came under. Its conclusion is a call to action to restore the church’s original teachings and way of life in a modern context.