Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 4
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
“Each member is of great value, and no member may be considered superior to any others. Thus the church is not a voluntary association of like-minded individuals that regulates its corporate life by the will of the elite, the powerful, or the majority; it is a fellowship of believers united with one another in Jesus Christ under his headship.” (Pages 44–46)
“Faithful living is not static; yet, like this third slave, we are good at knowing without doing. We are adept at holding on to a talent entrusted, knowing what we should do with it, but not doing so. We know what faithful living looks like, but we hesitate to live it. We bury too much goodness, time, love, treasure, and talent in the ground.” (Page 311)
“What is it like to answer a question to which you know the correct answer but that you do not want to hear? What is it like to be asked a question that may call you to change your mind, your ways of being and doing? Jesus’ questions are seldom about right answers; rather, they are about calling his followers and his hearers to be transformed.” (Page 118)
“The parable not only supports both justice and grace but insists that they are and will always be in tension with one another. Justice and grace cannot be reconciled with one another. They both are part of the character of God.” (Page 97)
“We are called to be imitators of Christ, to live in a way that allows other people to see Christ in us. What is an imitator? There is a great difference between an impersonator and an imitator. Impersonators take great pains to make people believe they are who they are not. On the other hand, imitators are clearly aware that they strive to live up to the challenge of being a reflection of the person they look up to.” (Page 110)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 4
- 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:FEASTWORDA04
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:36Z