Walter Brueggemann

Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Charles B. Cousar

J. Clinton McCann, Jr.

James D. Newsome, Jr.

This best-selling lectionary commentary series is now available for the first time in electronic format, making it easily accessible for sermon and worship bulletin preparation. This series of three volumes provides resources for an entire year of sermons and offers help for preachers and others who use the Revised Common Lectionary. Beginning with Advent, this unique and comprehensive resource deals with lectionary texts for years A, B, and C. Each of the four texts is treated--the Old Testament, Psalter, Gospel, and Epistle--for each Sunday and the important festival days. An introduction for the day indicates the general thrust of the texts and the relationships among them, emphasizing the interpretation of the texts themselves. Also included are suggestions concerning the implications of the texts for life today.

A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV Year A

Texts for Preaching

This book is base on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, this unique and comprehensive resource--a single volume that provides resources for an entire year of sermons--offers practical help to preachers and others involved in the Lectionary.

Texts for Preaching: Year B

In Paul's epistles the crucifixion story reveals a God who is free and in no way bound by human categories or expectations. Yet God in Christ chooses to be engaged in the very depths of the human predicament. The message of the crucifixion is that God's power is manifested in weakness, not in strength. The author believes that this "weakness as strength" should be the focal point of the church's identity. However, a celebration of weakness is in complete opposition to traditional American beliefs in personal strength and a powerful church.

The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters

A Theology of the Cross

In this second of two volumes on the book of Genesis, John Gibson examines epics of faith as portrayed primarily by Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. He considers the dramatic stories of Genesis in their historical context, relates them to the New Testament, and shows their applicability to today's church. Illustrated by maps, with suggestions for further reading, this companion to Genesis, Volume 1, also by Gibson, makes the happenings in Genesis as relevant to today's men and women as they were to the people of ancient times. Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay's New Testament series, The Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, The Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.

A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year C

A distinctive resource for those who interpret the Bible in the Church. Planned and written specifi-cally for teaching and preaching needs, this out-standing biblical commentary is a major contribution to the general ministry of the Word in today's world.

Galatians

James D. Newsome Jr.

Based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, this unique and comprehensive resource--the first in a series of three volumes--provides resources for an entire year of sermons and offers practical help to preachers and others involved using the Revised Common Lectionary. Beginning with Advent, it deals with the texts for Year B. Each of the four texts--the Old Testament, Psalter, Gospel, and Epistle--are treated in relation to each Sunday and important festival day, including Christmas, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday. A brief introduction gives the general thrust of the texts and the relationship among them with emphasis upon interpretation of the texts. Suggestions concerning the implications for life today are also included.

A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV

Texts for Preaching, Year B

Based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, this third in a series of three volumes provides resources for an entire year of sermons and offers practical help for preachers and others who use the Revised Common Lectionary. Beginning with Advent, this unique and comprehensive resource deals with lectionary texts for Year A. Each of the four texts--the Old Testament, Psalter, Gospel, and Epistle--for each Sunday and important festival day, including Christmas, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday, is treated. A brief introdution for the day indicates the general thrust of the texts and the relationships among them, emphasizing the interpretation of the texts themselves. Also included are suggestions concerning the implications of the texts for life today.

Texts for Preaching: Year A

Christine Roy Yoder

This book shares the results of a symposium held to honor the work of Walter Brueggemann and Charles Cousar at Columbia Theological Seminary on the occasion of their retirement. Each author and each chapter of the book simultaneously engages the Bible, the church and the world--a three-part engagement that was fundamental to the acclaimed careers of Brueggemann and Cousar.

Charles B. Cousar

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