Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, 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
“In our comfortable world, parents and newborn usually receive gifts instead of making them. What if we sacrificed something of immense value to mark a birth, to consecrate a child to God?” (Page 164)
“‘Son of Man coming in clouds’ (13:26) is from Daniel 7:13, and the ‘desolating sacrilege’ (13:14) is from Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 (cf. 1 Macc. 1:54; 2 Macc. 6:1–6). Mark instructs us to pay attention to Daniel (‘let the reader understand,’ v. 14). What we have in Mark 13 is a basic apocalyptic scenario lifted from Daniel and applied to new situations. The basic message of apocalyptic visions is this: The rebellion against the reign of God is strong, as the wicked oppress the righteous. Things will get worse before they get better. But hang on just a little longer, because just when you are sure you cannot endure, God will intervene to turn the world right side up.” (Page 22)
“Still, the preacher may need to ask, ‘Where is God’s transformation revealed today? What is God doing today in the lives of the people that offers hope and restoration to our broken world?’” (Page 53)
“Jesus’ proclamation is not just a solo recitation of informative words but is an efficacious action that creates community and is taken up and continued by that community.” (Page 284)
“We cannot create peace through selfishness, but by opening ourselves to hope. Hope is what is left when your worst fears have been realized and you are no longer optimistic about the future. Hope is what comes with a broken heart willing to be mended.” (Page 4)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 1
- Authors: David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- 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:FEASTWORDB01
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:37Z