Volume 78, No.1 (January/February 1997)
Sermons:
Like the Rubbish of the World / Ronald J. Allen (pp.5-9) – Go Home Another Way: The Gospel of Freedom / Carolyn Bohler (pp.10-14) – Life Is Messy / Mark R. Burnham (pp.15-18) – How to Be Unhappy / Edward Paul Cohn (pp.19-23) – The Art of Receiving / Martin B. Copenhaver (pp.24-30) – The King and the Closest / Anna Carter Florence (pp.31-34) – When They Think You’re Crazy / Peter J. Gomes (pp.35-40) – The Old Gives Way to the New / Alan Jones (pp.41-46) – A Dancing Spirit / Kirk Byron Jones (pp.47-51) – The Waters of Change / Eric Killinger (pp.52-56) – Nothing New / Everything New / John Killinger (pp.57-61) – The Egyptian Strategy / Kent D. Moorehead (pp.62-65) – Repairing Stained Glass / Donna Schaper (pp.66-67) – The Alchemy of Grace / Thomas H. Troeger (pp.68-71).

Volume 78, No.2 (March/April 1997)
Sermons:
Our Eager Lord / Elizabeth Achtemeier (pp.5-10) –A New Community / David G. Buttrick (pp.11-14) – He Is Going Ahead of You / Robert J. Elder (pp.15-18) – The Hungers of Life / Clyde E. Fant (pp.19-24) – “Render unto God Yourself!” / David Schanasa Jacobsen (pp.25-34) – Resurrection! / Thorwald Lorenzen (pp.35-40) – “Their Eyes Were Kept from Recognizing Him” / Gail R. O’Day (pp. 41-44) – Doing and Dying / Kate Penfield (pp.45-50) – The Good Shepherd / Wallace Charles Smith (pp.51-54) – Staying Power / Mary Donovan (pp.55-58) – One’s Most Precious Hatreds / Jon M. Walton (pp.59-65).

Volume 78, No.3 (May/June 1997)
Sermons:
When the Choice Is Love / Edward Paul Cohn (pp.5-9) – A Father’s Blessing / Stuart G. Collier (pp.10-14) – One in the Spirit, Like It or Not! / Martin B. Copenhaver (pp.15-20) – Always Is Always Now / Penelope Duckworth (pp.21-25) – Genealogies Commentary / Anna Carter Florence (pp.26-33) – When Good People Do Bad Things / Peter J. Gomes (pp.34-38) – “I’m No Angel. Cime Up and See Me Something!” / Alan Jones (pp.39-42) –Bored with Jesus / John Killinger (pp.43-48) – The Ascension of Jesus Christ / Thorwald Lorenzen (pp.49-54) – The Language of Pentecost / Wallace Charles Smith (pp.55-59) – When Motherly Love Is Like the Love of God / George Thompson (pp.60-66) – Support the Cause / W. Sibley Towner (pp.67-72).

Volume 78, No.4 (July/August 1997)
Sermons:
Court Case and Commendation / Elizabeth Achtemeier (pp.5-11) – The Difference between Faith and Presumption / Clyde E. Fant (pp.12-16) – New Strength for the Exhausted / David Albert Farmer (pp.17-23) – Get Real! / Kate Penfield (pp.24-28) – Dominion and Responsibility / Wallace Charles Smith (pp.29-36) –Let All the World in Every Corner Sing / Thomas H. Troeger (pp.37-40) – Immediately / Mary Donovan Turner (pp.41-44) – The Thorn and the Rose / Daniel P. Thimell (pp.45-49) – Flowers in the Cracks and Comfort in the Wilderness / Jo Bennett (pp.50-56) – Some Bright Morning / William Lee Kinney (pp.57-62) – The Ascension / Richard R. Topping (pp.63-68) – Faith, Science, and a Rock from Mars / Albert G. Butzer III (pp.69-74) – God, the Surprising Timekeeper / Arabella T. Meadows-Rogers (pp.75-80).

Volume 78, No. 5 (September / October 1997)
Sermons:
Doing What Comes Naturally / Anna Carter Florence (pp.5-10) – On Taking Pain Seriously / John Killinger (pp.11-16) – How Then Shall We Live? / Thorwald Lorenzen (pp.17-23) -- Food and Work / Gail R. O’Day (pp.24-27) – The Great Reversal / George E. Thompson (pp.28-32) – Buying Off God / Patrick J. Willson (pp.33-38) – Following Words / Gary W. Charles (pp.39-43) – What Do You Mean “We”, Kemosabe? / Dale R. Rosenberger (pp.44-50) – Pinning the Talk on the Donkey / Dale Bringman (pp.51-55) – The Peaceable Kingdom Revisited / James S. Evinger (pp.56-63) – Out of Step / Mary Lu Warstler (pp.64-70) – Out of the Backyard / Peggy S. Michael-Rush (pp.71-77).

Volume 78, No.6 (November/December 1997)
Sermons:
The Word of the Kingdom / Elizabeth Achtemeier (pp.5-10) – Thanksgiving as Ethical Principle / David G. Buttrick (pp.11-15) – Receiving without Regret / Martin B. Copenhaver (pp.16-22) – When the Future Intrudes / Peter J. Gomes (pp.23-31) –Responding to the Market or the Manger / Alan Jones (pp32-38) – What Are Waiting For? / Kate Penfield (pp.39-44) – The Face of Faith / Patrick Willson (pp.45-50) – The Politics of Love / W. Robert McClelland (pp.51-58) – Why Doesn’t God Do Something? / Charles O. Brizius (pp.59-64) – “For of Such Are the Kingdom of Heaven” / Patricia Ramsden (pp.65-69) – When It’s Not Ok to Be Ok / Dick Underdahl-Peirce (pp.70-76) – Having It Al / Susan Auchincloss (pp.77-82) – In God We Trust / James L. Wilson (pp.83-89.

The Library has:
Vol. 70:501, vol. 71:502-503, 505-506 (1990); vol. 72:507-508, 510-512 (1991); vol. 73:513-518 (1992); vol. 74:519, 521, 523-524 (1993); vol. 75:525-530 (1994); vol. 76:531, 533-536 (1995); vol. 77:539-542 (1996); vol. 79:1-6 (1998); vol. 80:1-4 (1999).