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• Weekly commentaries on the Revised Common Lectionary texts
• Discussion questions for each week’s RCL readings
• Narrative Lectionary commentaries
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Final in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship
In this fourth video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture in a full-throated, soulful way.
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In this exercise, Bardwell delivers the alternate psalm for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Luke 1:46-55) using only the -
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Third in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship
In the third video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture with strength that comes not from the reader, but from God.
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In this exercise, Bardwell delivers the psalm for the Third Sunday of Advent (Isaiah 12:2-6) -
Second in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship
In the second video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture from the heart.
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After a brief introduction, Bardwell delivers the epistle for the Second Sunday of Advent (Philippians 1:3-11) after reciting the passage -
First in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship
In this 10-minute video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to read Bible passages in Advent effectively, so that not one word is lost.
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After a brief introduction, Bardwell delivers the psalm for First Sunday of Advent (Psalm 25) twice: -
Otis Moss III reflects on ways to preach to different generations within the same congregation. The preacher, according to Moss, is a prophetic clarifier who can best communicate with those audiences if he or she is also a student of the culture. Otis Moss, III will be speaking and preaching
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Luke Powery explores the way that text and context relate in the sermon, advocating for fusing the biblical world and our world without judgment.
"When it comes to the judgment that a preacher could pass down on the things that are happening in culture, that's where I think there are some possible dead
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Anthony Bailey explores the many different factors that influence the hearers of a sermon and the way a sermon is held accountable to those factors.
"Being accountable in our preaching is attending to what is necessary to enliven, embolden, challenge, heal, bless, and maybe even sometimes coerce, the
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Luke Powery expounds on the problem of using the language and models of business to characterize the ministry of the church.
"No one went to seminary to learn how to run a meeting ... We came to seminary to learn about ministry, to serve God's people, to get connected to what God's doing in the
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Luke Powery argues that a limited imagination of who God is and what God can do limits the ministry of the church and its vision for the future.
"If we are a resurrection people, an Easter people, anything is possible. Just like the open grave, the future is not closed, it's open."
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Lauren Winner shares her thought process on using personal stories in the pulpit and relates the craft of preaching to communal prayer.
"Each year, preaching seems to reveal itself more to be prayer for and with my congregation."
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Yvette Flunder describes how she selects texts for her sermons, beginning with the situations of her hearers and moving to the biblical witness.
"Oftentimes the last place I go to finish up the sermon is the text, because I'm going to be looking for a witness from one of the Bible writers."
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Anthony Bailey explains how the words of our worship often have unintended negative implications and argues that liturgical language must be critiqued by the whole community in order to worship faithfully.
"We need the community because there are no experts who are devoid of blind spots; we need the
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Yvette Flunder describes how the preacher and the hearers are united together by the Spirit in the experience of the preached word.
"We may not be holding hands in the literal sense, but we're holding hearts."
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Yvette Flunder reflects on the central place of the preached word within the worship service and describes the "circle-dance" of interaction between the preacher and the hearers.
"I believe that in a worship experience, the worship leads up to and away from the preached word."
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Luke Powery advocates for the necessity of preaching lament and discusses how to accomplish this within the sermon.
"One can name the trouble in the world, but that's not the same as lamenting it in the sermonic moment."
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Anthony Bailey shares his process for deciding when and how to include personal stories in his sermons.
"I always have to ask: Is this sermon more about God or me? The Gospel or my thoughts?"
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