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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.
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.
Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African
American spirituals give us profound insights into the human
condition and the Christian life. Many focus on an essential scene
of the Christian drama: the coming of God as the child in Bethlehem
and as the hope of the world and the liberator of God's oppressed
people. In these devotions for the season of Advent, Luke Powery
leads the reader through the spirituals as they confront the
mystery of incarnation and redemption. In Rise Up, Shepherd! each
devotion features the lyrics of the spiritual, a reflection on the
spiritual's meaning, a Scripture verse, and a brief prayer.
In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many
Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to
feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in
contemporary preaching. Embracing the vision of the valley of dry
bones in Ezekiel 37 as a metaphor for preaching in the Spirit,
acclaimed homiletician Luke Powery asserts that death is the
context for all preaching. In fact, the Spirit leads preachers to
the context of death each Sunday in order to proclaim a word of
life that ultimately breathes hope into people's lives. Yet many
preachers avoid death because they are at a loss of what to say
about it and do not realize its vital connection to the substance
of Christian hope. As a result the church is too often left with
sermons that are fundamentally devoid of hope. Dem Dry Bones aims
to remedy some of the theological and homiletical shortcomings in
contemporary preaching by looking closely at the African American
spirituals tradition. Through this study, Powery demonstrates how
to preach in the Spirit so that proclaiming death becomes an avenue
toward hope. In short: no death, no hope.
That the Holy Spirit is present in preaching is something we take
for granted. How the Spirit is present is a question we seldom ask.
Luke Powery suggests that we fail to ask that question to the
detriment of our preaching. Drawing on the tradition of African
American preaching, he locates the Spirit s activity in the sermon
in two primary places; First, in celebration, the joyous acceptance
of God s gifts to the church and to the world. But equally as
powerful is the expression of lament, the lifting up of our sorrow,
grief, and suffering. In these two experiences the Spirit plays the
decisive role, enabling the preacher to lay the congregation s joys
and sorrows at the feet of the living God, and announcing God s
presence in both our celebration and our lament."
Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The
changing realities of church and theological education, the
diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community
contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising
generation of preachers for a future whose contours are far from
clear. The questions are immense: How to support preachers in
contexts that are diverse religiously, culturally, and ethnically,
both inside and outside the church? How to help students take
varied contexts seriously as they are formed as leaders? ln Ways of
the Word, 3 dynamic team of master preachers brings much-needed
help. Different in race, gender, age, and tradition, both Sally A.
Brown and Luke A. Powery speak with one voice their belief that
preaching is Spirit-empowered event: an embodied, vocalized,
actively received, here-and-now witness to the ongoing work of God
in the world.
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 set contains Year C,
volumes 1, 2, and 3.
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