New Proclamation: Year B, 2005-2006: Advent Through Holy Week

By Deborah Krause, William F. Brosend II, Daniel N. Schowalter

This popular and widely used preaching resource series helps preachers write better sermons. Each volume offers exegesis and homiletical advice, important observations about the liturgical season and setting, and an array of features to help spark the homiletical imagination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800642538
• ISBN13: 9780800642532
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Continuing a Good Series

This is the fifth of the "New Proclamation" series that I have utilized in my sermon preparation. The series offers the Sunday readings from the litergical calendar for the various denominations that follow such a format. I have relied on the series as sort of cure for "thinker's block". Sometimes it compounds the problem but usually the observations and background give me an idea or two for a direction of thought and inspiration. The series tends to vary in quality because the contributors change from volume to volume. If I was more attentive, I'd know by now which contributors I've found most helpful. I have to admit that I was put off with the opening chapter on First Advent. The author, William Brosend II, used one of his own articles as a reference for his commentary. I set the book aside for a few weeks until I felt like I needed it and it came through then and most every other time thereafter. I have the sixth of the series for the next six months and I have noticed that the series will continue on after that although the sixth volume theorectically finishes the three-year calendar. Even though each volume shows the exact date for each particular Sunday, most of us should be able to figure out which Sunday we're on if we want to use these same volumes for another three-year cycle. As a good a resource as this series is, I may go for a seventh volume just to have a third opinion.