With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will 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 proclaimation of the Word on any giv...
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The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essays --one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume will also contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use ...
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Each volume offers liturgical advice for worship planning. For each Sunday, there are ideas to integrate the focus on the Church Year through worship, music, color, and the proclamation of the Word.

YEAR B: Lent-Easter

Unlike other lectionary commentaries, this series offers preachers extensive liturgical advice for worship planning. Each volume begins with a chapter on the theological meaning of the season, its relation to the overall Christian Year, and specific liturgical suggestions. For each Sunday and special day of the year, the books show how the focus on the Church year can be integrated through worship, music color, and the proclamation of the Word.

After Pentecost 2 includes lections for the fall; After Pentecost 1 takes the preacher through the summer.

Year A: After Pentecost 2<...
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