Publisher's Synopsis
The Freedom to Be Wrong provides exemplary model sermons for gospel texts in the last third of the Pentecost season (Sundays in Ordinary Time). Rueter shows himself to be a skilled wordsmith as well as a careful exegete in messages based on such familiar Lucan pericopes as:
- Cleansing ten lepers
- The persistent claiment and the unrighteous judge
- The Pharisee and the Publican who prayed at the Temple
- Zacchaeus' change of life
and nine more.
David W. Preus
Presiding Bishop
The American Lutheran Church Alvin C. Rueter is an ordained pastor in the American Lutheran Church. He served parishes in Monterey Park and Inglewood, California; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has served as a part-time instructor in preaching at Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota; conducts preaching workshops for parish clergy; and is the producer of Lector Audio Cassettes, a series helping lay scripture readers present the Sunday morning readings with understanding and effectiveness. A Ph.D. candidate in Speech/Communication at the University of Minnesota, he is completing research in the area of "Persuasion of the Hostile Audience." Since 1955 he has hosted a popular sacred choral music radio program, known as "Sing for Joy" and heard on 200 stations every week.
