Lectionary Levity

Author : Ian S. Markham
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819233587
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectionary Levity written by Ian S. Markham and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ian S. Markham
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819233579
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectionary Levity written by Ian S. Markham and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1532655991
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your God is Too Somber written by Christopher Dreisbach and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498242839
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasonable Radical? written by Ian S. Markham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alyce M. McKenzie
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1646983149
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor Us! written by Alyce M. McKenzie and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homiletics textbooks often discourage the use of humor in preaching, regarding it as trivializing or distracting. The result is that many preachers have failed to understand humor’s positive power, demoting it to the opening joke to get a guaranteed guffaw to warm up the crowd. Humor Us!, the second volume in the "Preaching and…" series, is a collaborative effort by homiletician Alyce M. McKenzie and humor scholar Owen Hanley Lynch that promotes humor, a force capable of great good, to its rightful place in the pulpit. Establishing humor as a divine gift, Humor Us! opens to preachers the world of humor studies with its positive portrayal of humor’s usefulness to speak truth to power, unite people in their common humanity, and strengthen them to cope and survive in tough times. Humor Us! helps preachers understand how humor works and shows them, in very practical and specific ways, how preachers can put it to work in their sermons. It combines the wealth of knowledge of two highly regarded scholars-practitioners to show how humor can become a potent tool for sharing the good news in sermons. McKenzie and Lynch prove that humor, when applied thoughtfully, can foster compassion and a sense of common humanity, help challenge an unjust status quo, and invite listeners into a shared experience of the presence of God.

Author : Joel B. Green
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611649722
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship written by Joel B. Green and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 P. Lewis (D.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectionaries, English and Irish written by William P. Lewis (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel B. Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780664264864
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connections written by Joel B. Green and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Scott Wilson
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426729774
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abingdon Theological Companion to the Lectionary written by Paul Scott Wilson and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preach theologically-informed sermons using this companion to the readings in Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary.

Author : Ronald James Allen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664227630
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preaching the Gospels Without Blaming the Jews written by Ronald James Allen and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.