Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 3
Overview
With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclamation of the Word on any given occasion. The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that non-lectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its contents.
Top Highlights
“This text expresses at least two ecclesiological claims regarding the nature of the church on earth: (1) it is a mixed body of two kinds of disciples; (2) the ultimate nature and destiny of every disciple will not be revealed until the judgment at the end of the age.” (Page 260)
“Matthew does not want us to miss the clear parallel between the prayer life of Jesus and the mighty things he does.” (Page 333)
“Jesus is actually addressing the faithful who seek to live into their Christian faith while facing conflict and discouragement, and even the threat to their physical well-being, because of the gospel’s calling.” (Page 166)
“The bearded darnel is a devil of a weed. It defies Emerson’s claim that a weed is ‘a plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.’1 Known in biblical terms as ‘tares,’ bearded darnel has no virtues. Its roots surround the roots of good plants, sucking up precious nutrients and scarce water, making it impossible to root it out without damaging the good crop. Above ground, darnel looks identical to wheat, until it bears seed. Those seeds can cause everything from hallucinations to death.” (Page 260)
“What is so clear from this passage is that we are called to step out in faith, even in the midst of troubled waters, if we are to be faithful to the call of Christ. Stepping out in faith is not a guarantee that we will not face troubled waters or be filled with fear, but it is always accompanied by the assurance that Jesus will not abandon us, that when we need it most, he will extend his arm to lift us up and get us back in the boat.” (Page 334)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 3
- Authors: David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Common lectionary (1992); Lectionary preaching
- Resource ID: LLS:FEASTWORDA03
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:35Z