With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day.

For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays--one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclaimation of the Word on any given occasion.

The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its content.

Throughout all recorded history God has revealed himself in various ways. Though there is one pathway to God, spiritual awakening may happen at anytime from childhood to old age. Glimpses of God Through the Ages preserves hundreds of first-hand expressions of God's love and presence in individual lives. These glimpses have been gathered from books, testimonies, diaries, personal recollections, historical documents and witnessed accounts. This book will strengthen and encourage your faith whether you are experiencing God's presence or feeling alone. You will read acounts of men and women throughout time and discover how God touches the core of our beings in ways appropriate to our own interests, background, personality and talents. He meets us where we are and yet is the same yesterday, today and forever.

William Willimon, one of the world's most admired preachers, offers his practical and sage advice for some of the most basic tasks of ministry: preparing, delivering, and evaluating sermons; planning, leading, and evaluating worship services; offering public prayers; and celebrating baptism and the Lord's Supper. In addition, Willimon provides creative suggestions for involving laity in worship. Ideal for beginning ministers and veterans alike, A Guide to Preaching and Leading Worship will assuredly become a standard must-have for mainline Protestant clergy.