Feasting on the Gospels: Luke, Volumes 1 & 2
Overview
Feasting on the Gospels is an all-new, seven-volume preaching series that focuses on the most prominent and preached-on New Testament books, the four Gospels. Featuring never- before-published essays from a diverse and respected group of scholars and pastors, Feasting on the Gospels covers every single passage in the Gospels, making it a valuable resource for developing sermons. In these two volumes on the Gospel of Luke, preachers will find four essays on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text, with the freedom to begin where they choose. Feasting on the Gospels offers a unique resource for all who preach, either continuously or occasionally, on the Gospels.
Key Features
- Includes essays, exegetical, homiletical, and pastoral
- Designed especially for the pastor and ministry preparation
- Provides flexibility for how the text is approach, whether from beginning to end or moving from one place together
Top Highlights
“More often than not, opportunities to touch and transform the lives of others come to us not through calculated efforts, but on the way to other obligations.” (Volume 2, Page 118)
“Every single one of us has received an invitation to help give birth to the kingdom of God. Indeed, as Meister Eckhart believed, we are all meant to be mothers of God. ‘What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine son takes place unceasingly but does not take place within me? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace, if I am not also full of grace?’1 The truth of the gospel is that we human beings are tabernacles, containers of the holy. God wants nothing less than for us to become pregnant with divine possibilities and then to give birth to the holy and precious in our time.” (Volume 1, Page 16)
“How is God asking your faith community to give birth to the holy? Do they say yes to God’s intrusive invitations? Do they say yes to the new horizons, new possibilities, and new lives? Do they say with Isaiah, ‘Here am I’? Do they say yes to questions that really question the way things are? Then, if they do say yes, are you willing to be their Elizabeth? Are you willing to bless their pregnancy? Will your congregational leaders midwife the birthing process?” (Volume 1, Page 18)
“If God used Mary, then we are not too young; if God used Elizabeth, then we are not too old. Being from a cultural capital or academic center is not a prerequisite in God’s calculus either. If God brought something good out of Nazareth, then God’s word can be born anew in the least likely places still. Have you ever been to Nazareth? God has always chosen the most humble of vessels from the most humble of places to give birth to his word.” (Volume 1, Page 16)
Praise for the Print Edition
Continuing in the great tradition of Feasting on the Word, the Feasting on the Gospels series is a welcome resource for preachers. Four scholars, each writing from a different perspective, address every passage in the Gospels, offering stimulation to the preacher's imagination and lighting up the possibilities for engaging biblical sermons.
—Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Most people may know that Feasting on the Gospels is a profound resource for preachers, pastors, and teachers, but it is also a treasure book for laity, meditators, and spiritual seekers. Its four clearly written essays on each Gospel passage aid reflection, appeal to experience, stir up questions, and leave one wanting more.
—Kathleen M. O'Connor, Emerita, Columbia Theological Seminary, and author of Jeremiah: Pain and Promise
This excellent preaching and teaching resource is a soul-feeding feast. Take. Eat. Bon appetit!
—Luke Powery, Dean of the Chapel, Duke University
Product Details
- Title: Feasting on the Gospels: Luke, Volumes 1 & 2
- Editors: Cynthia A. Jarvis and E. Elizabeth Johnson
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Publication Date: 2015
- Pages: 712
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Commentary
- Topic: Luke
About the Editors
Cynthia A. Jarvis is Minister of The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The coeditor of Loving God with the Mind: The Pastor as Theologian and The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of a Pastor- Theologian, she served on the editorial board of the Feasting on the Word series.
E. Elizabeth Johnson is J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She also served on the editorial board of the Feasting on the Word series.
