Lectionary Preaching Workbook: Series V, Cycle A (revised)

If you are looking for ways to add excitement to your Sunday morning services while continuing to follow the lectionary texts, this volume is an indispensible tool for busy pastors who need a helping hand with their weekly homiletic research and want to make the most of their limited preparation time. Combining concise but insightful textual notes with a wide range of creative preaching ideas, each chapter provides plenty of starting points for developing stimulating sermons that make the scriptures come alive for the people in the pews. In addition to a convenient sermon planning template plus overviews of Matthew (the featured Gospel narrator in Cycle A) and each liturgical season, each week's material includes:

• a listing of applicable Revised Common, Roman Catholic, and Episcopal lectionary texts
• a theme for the day
• a brief commentary on the first reading, second reading, and gospel reading lessons
• a prayer for the day
• theological reflections exploring the relationships between the texts
• several possible preaching approaches
• additional illustrations to assist in fleshing out the message