Feasting on the Word— Year A, Volume 3: Pentecost and Season after Pentecost 1

Feasting on the Word #A3

by David Lyon Bartlett (Editor), Barbara Brown Taylor (Editor)

With the twelve-volume series Feasting on the Word, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes will cover all of the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions. The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essaysÂâ€"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 of its contents. The printed volumes for Ordinary Time include the complementary stream during Year A, the complementary stream during the first half of Year B, the semicontinuous stream during the second half of Year B, and the semicontinuous stream during Year C. Beginning with the season after Pentecost in Year C, the alternate lections for Ordinary Time not in the print volumes will be available online at feastingontheword.net.

Genres: Theology, Reference

408 pages, Hardcover

Published January 27, 2011

About the author

David Lyon Bartlett, 1941-2017

Reviews

[Rosemary · Rating 5 out of 5]

OK, this is not a book you "finish," but I'm marking it as Read. I'll return to it throughout this church season. Great not just for preachers but for anyone who wants a little more background on the biblical readings for the week, for churches following the Revised Common Lectionary. Short, not highly technical, easy-to-read commentaries on each of the four Sunday readings thoroughout the season.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent preaching commentary series following the lectionary readings. Since it offers four separate perspectives on each passage, and each of them offers multiple ways of reading each passage, these commentaries can be useful over a lifetime of preaching.

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

Necessary, for busy preachers.

[John Dobbs · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is wonderful for those who are preaching/teaching along with the Revised Common Lectionary. I loved the four different approaches to each text. Some were more helpful than others, of course, but I would consider this a 'rich' resource for preaching and teaching. The books are pricey, but they are large with very nice paper / readable print. Excellent.