Preaching Through the Christian Year: Year A: A Comprehensive Commentary on the Lectionary

by Fred B. Craddock, Gene Milton Tucker, Carl R. Holladay, et al.

Book Overview

Because the Bible is an ancient book, it invites the preacher back into its world in order to understand; because the Bible is the churchs Scripture, it moves forward into our world and addresses us... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563380544
• ISBN13: 9781563380549
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

From a Deacon

I found the subject matter clearly understandable but most important for me, it aids in making sermon preparation. An ordained Priest showed a Deacon Formation class this book , several members of the class ordered the book. The minister that brought the book, uses it regularily. It is an excellent resourse: I'm using it for my preparation of my sermon this Sunday.

The best lectionary help volume I know about

As a seminary professor of New Testament, I know I'm supposed to eschew any "lectionary helps" because they are so often a shortcut to students' or pastors' own reading of the text they are going to preach. More often I eschew lectionary helps because they are dull, irrelevant to the preaching task, or moralistic in their appropriation of scripture.Preaching through the Christian Year is a wonderful exception to the rule. It's a three-volume collection (each sold separately). The authors almost always offer excellent pump-priming material for my own preaching. The exegesis is sound yet not so technical that you're sorry you asked in the first place. And the sermon ideas are thought-provoking if not always the direction I head. Worth the money!