The Word in the Wind

Sermons for the Lectionary, Year A, Advent through Eastertide

Bruce L. Taylor

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781532682155
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

The growing use and appreciation of the Common Lectionary (Revised) has stimulated renewed attention to the Christian calendar in its fullness and an enrichment of liturgical worship. In this volume, Bruce Taylor offers a collection of theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive, and biblically centered sermons for the Sundays and feast days in the first half of Year A of the Lectionary, featuring Gospel readings from Matthew with attention to the accompanying Old Testament and epistolary texts. Included is a sampling of sermons written as engaging stories, and a sermon presented during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Preachers will find here encouragement for their own homiletical observance of the liturgical year and ecumenical celebrations, and the mutual and intimate relationship between Word and Sacrament. All readers will find a thoughtful and stimulating resource for their own life of faith, witness, and devotion.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Notices
• Introduction
• First Sunday of Advent: “God’s Kairos in Our Chronos”
• Second Sunday of Advent: “Salvation for All”
• Third Sunday of Advent: “Waiting for the 9:01”
• Fourth Sunday of Advent: “Trust Beyond Reason, Hope Beyond Doubt”
• Christmas Eve (early evening): “What Gold Is For”
• Christmas Eve (late evening): “Amazed Again”
• Christmas Day: “Through the Eyes of Christmas”
• First Sunday after Christmas: “Home, for Christmas”
• Second Sunday after Christmas: “Christ Our Center”
• Epiphany of the Lord: “Light-Bearers”
• The Baptism of the Lord: “From Bath to Meal”
• Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Witness”
• Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Sine Qua Non”
• Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Beatitude”
• Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “No Double Standard”
• Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Point of the Game”
• Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Holiness”
• Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “To Believe and to Trust”
• Transfiguration of the Lord: “The Light that Shines Brightest in All the Dark Places”
• Ash Wednesday: “Why Lent?”
• First Sunday in Lent: “Skiing Within Bounds”
• Second Sunday in Lent: “The Word in the Wind”
• Third Sunday in Lent: “Wherever Jesus Is”
• Fourth Sunday in Lent: “To See or Not to See”
• Fifth Sunday in Lent: “Faith Debunking Futility”
• Palm/Passion Sunday: “Through the Gates and into the Valley”
• Maundy Thursday: “The Meal of Anticipation”
• Good Friday: The Resurrection of the Lord (sunrise)
• The Resurrection of the Lord (sunrise): “The Pilgrim Heart”
• The Resurrection of the Lord: “Whom God Raises Up”
• Second Sunday of Easter: “And Him Crucified”
• Third Sunday of Easter: “The Guest”
• Fourth Sunday of Easter: “Ecology”
• Fifth Sunday of Easter: “Who We Are”
• Sixth Sunday of Easter: “To Suffer for the Good”
• Ascension of the Lord: “No More Good Old Days”
• Seventh Sunday of Easter: “God’s Gift to Christ”
• Appendix: “If Jesus Prayed for It . . .”
• List of Sources Cited