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.

Yes, lady, God himself could not sink this ship -- The TitanicPower grows out of the barrel of a gun -- Chairman Mao Tse TungI've been on a calendar, but never on time -- Marilyn Monroe

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Imposters just the same -- Rudyard Kipling

That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind -- Neil Armstrong

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall -- Mahatma Gandhi

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts -- Diana, Princess of Wales

I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat -- Billy GrahamIs that it? -- Bob Geldof

With this commitment in place, Samuel Miller entered his career at Princeton Seminary determined not to allow his professorial duties to diminish his calling as a minister of the gospel. And with such conviction, Miller did, indeed, continue preaching unto the last days of his life. Holding Fast the Faithful Word collects a number of sermons Miller had published during his ministry. Miller's sermons are models of organizational clarity.