Lectionary Levity

Author : Ian S. Markham,Samantha R. E. Gottlich
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819233585

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Lectionary Levity by Ian S. Markham,Samantha R. E. Gottlich Pdf

Spanning all 3 years of the lectionary cycle, this book provides a welcome tool for the renewal of preaching from the gospel readings. In a concise, uniform, and simple format, the authors provide a thematic summary of the gospel, list several possible points for preaching, and offer a humorous story for the week that illumines the deeper meaning of the biblical text. Lectionary Levity also functions as a practical manual on how to use humor in preaching and allows the reader to view the gospel in a different light so as to enliven the worship experience. A treasure trove of biblical insights, homiletical helps, and just good humor!

Author : Christopher Dreisbach
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532655999

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Your God is Too Somber by Christopher Dreisbach Pdf

Your God is too somber if your posture before him lacks a spirit of joy and a commitment to rejoice as much as possible. While life has its sadness and tragedy, the good news of Jesus Christ is that God’s kingdom has won; and the suffering we face for a time is shorter compared with the endless delight that God promises. So, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice!” (Phil 4:4). Your God is too somber if you embrace a theology of tears, rather than a theology of laughter. Of course, salvation and Christ’s sacrifice are serious business, and we should engage in moments of penitential reflection, confession, and atonement. But all of this so we can shake off the shackles of our shortcomings and celebrate God fully and joyfully. Your God is too somber if you fail to see the humor in the Bible: the calls to joy, paradox, irony, burlesque, play, and wordplay. God laughs, sometimes with us, sometimes at us, and Jesus’s humor is evident in parables and sayings, with the goal of teaching us the truth. Is your God too somber? This book aims to help you answer that question.

Author : Ian S. Markham,Joshua Daniel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498242837

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Reasonable Radical? by Ian S. Markham,Joshua Daniel Pdf

One of the most interesting voices in the Academy and the Church today is Martyn Percy. Percy, the Dean of Christ Church Oxford and a leading voice in the Anglican Communion, is both theologically orthodox, yet deeply unconventional. While remaining engaged in the scholarly community, Percy writes with clarity and passion on topics that range from ecclesiology to music, from sexuality to the Trinity, from advertising to ministerial training--he is a polymath. This book is two books in one. The first half contains a series of articles (written both by church leaders and academics) that serve as substantial, critical introductions to Percy's thought. In the second half, the reader gets to hear from Percy himself in a collection of wide-ranging material from his corpus. While producing a dialectical engagement of some depth (as Percy offers written responses to his interlocutors), this volume should prove useful for a variety of communities beyond academic circles, especially ones engaged with contemporary issues facing ecclesiology, churches, and the wider Anglican Communion.

Author : William P. Lewis (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Lectionaries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59924179

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Lectionaries, English and Irish by William P. Lewis (D.D.) Pdf

Author : Paul Scott Wilson
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426729775

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Abingdon Theological Companion to the Lectionary by Paul Scott Wilson Pdf

Preach theologically-informed sermons using this companion to the readings in Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary.

Author : Joel B. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664264867

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Connections by Joel B. Green Pdf

Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual lection reading with Scripture as a whole as well as to the larger world. In addition, Connections places each Psalm reading in conversation with the other lections for the day to highlight the themes of the liturgical season. Finally, sidebars offer additional connections to Scripture for each Sunday or worship day. This nine-volume series is a practical, constructive, and valuable resource for preachers who seek to help congregations connect more closely with Scripture.

Author : Joel B. Green,Thomas G. Long,Luke Powery,Carolyn J. Sharp,Cynthia L. Rigby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664264808

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Connections: Year A, Volume 2 by Joel B. Green,Thomas G. Long,Luke Powery,Carolyn J. Sharp,Cynthia L. Rigby Pdf

Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual lection reading with Scripture as a whole as well as to the larger world. In addition, Connections places each Psalm reading in conversation with the other lections for the day to highlight the themes of the liturgical season. Finally, sidebars offer additional connections to Scripture for each Sunday or worship day. This nine-volume series is a practical, constructive, and valuable resource for preachers who seek to help congregations connect more closely with Scripture. This volume covers Year A for Lent through Pentecost.

Author : William Luoma
Publisher : CSS Publishing Company
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1556730616

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Honest to Goodness by William Luoma Pdf

If lending vitality and form to Old Testament pericopes is one of your greatest preaching challenges, you will appreciate William Luoma's new collection of ten critically relevant sermons for Old Testament texts. Within are sermons for every Cycle C first lesson text during the middle third of the Pentecost season from the common lectionary, including: - I Kid You Not - The Preposterous Prescription - The Focus on Fitness - The Cracked Crystal Ball - ... And Justice For All - The God Who Doesn't Give Up and four more. Use these complete sermons as presented -- or as inspiration for your own original messages. William Luoma is pastor of Peace Lutheran Chuch and Hope Lutheran Church of Bowling Green, Ohio. A graduate of Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, he has also served parishes in Port Clinton, and Logan, Ohio. He and his wife Lois are the parents of three adult children.

Author : Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227635

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Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews by Ronald James Allen,Clark M. Williamson Pdf

"In this commentary on the Gospel readings in the Revised Common Lectionary, Allen and Williamson call attention to ways in which the lections are continuous with the theology, values, and practices of Judaism and reflect critically on the caricatures in the readings. They explain the polemics in their first-century setting but criticize them historically and theologically. They also suggest ways that preachers can help their congregations move beyond these contentious themes to a greater sense of kinship and shared mission with Judaism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : O Wesley Allen
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827230060

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Preaching and Reading the Lectionary by O Wesley Allen Pdf

Wesley Allen offers a helpful book that provides preachers with strategies to preach the lectionary season by season so that sermons build upon each other week to week. Allen defines the concept of cumulative preacing and explores the relationship between the different lessons for each Sunday, for each season, and for each year. A useful resource for both preaching and worship planning, Preaching and Reading the Lectionary examines the relationship between the readings called for by the Revised Common Lectionary while explaining the three dimensions of the lectionary: Width, the relationship between the lessons preached on a given Sunday; height, the relationship between the lessons preached on consecutive Sundays; and depth, the relationship between the lessons preached in different years. The included CD-ROM complements the cumulative preaching strategies with brief explanations of each liturgical year, season, Sunday, and individual lection. They are written to help the congregation view the larger biblical, liturgical, and lectionary contexts and connections. These can be printed in the bulletin or read aloud in worship.

Author : Catholic Church
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Lectionaries
ISBN : 0005996546

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Lectionary by Catholic Church Pdf

Author : Reginald Horace Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:1069394721

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Preaching the Lectionary by Reginald Horace Fuller Pdf

Author : Michael Perham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826461662

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Revised Common Lectionary in NRSV by Michael Perham Pdf

Author : Joel B. Green,Thomas G. Long,Luke A. Powery,Cynthia L Rigby,Carolyn J Sharp
Publisher : Connections: A Lectionary Comm
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664266053

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Connections: Complete 9-Volume Set: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship by Joel B. Green,Thomas G. Long,Luke A. Powery,Cynthia L Rigby,Carolyn J Sharp Pdf

Author : Gordon Lathrop,Gail Ramshaw
Publisher : Pueblo Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1951-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814660819

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Lectionary for the Christian People by Gordon Lathrop,Gail Ramshaw Pdf

This set of readings and gospels for each Sunday of the three-year cycle of readings has been carefully emended in inclusive American English to speak clearly and gracefully to all God's people.