Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 1
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
“Those Christians who are agnostic about last things are tempted to fall into a state of perpetual apathy. Those Christians who are focused on last things are tempted to fall into a state of perpetual anxiety. Our passage encourages faith rather than apathy and hope rather than anxiety.” (Page 20)
“The angel addresses him as ‘son of David,’ reminding the readers of the genealogical problem. Jesus can be son of David only through Joseph, yet Joseph is not his biological father. This problem is solved by the angel in verse 21: ‘you shall name him Jesus.’ By naming the baby, Joseph acknowledges him as his son; in effect, Joseph adopts Jesus, and thus incorporates him legally into David’s genealogy.” (Page 95)
“‘You know, that’s how it is with God. We are imprinted with a memory of God, and God is imprinted with a memory of us, and even if it takes a lifetime, we will find each other.’” (Page 286)
“Blessed are those who mourn’ in reference to the sadness that accompanies the death of loved ones. By contrast, Matthew has in mind the mourning of the faithful who recognize that the present condition of the world is far from God’s purposes.” (Page 311)
“The sermon, however briefly, could ask: can a shoot come out from the stump of the church?” (Page 29)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 1
- Authors: David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- 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:FEASTWORDA01
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:34Z