Christ's New Address

Sermons for the Lectionary, Year C, Pentecost through Christ the King

Bruce L. Taylor

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781666726824
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

Christ's New Address completes a six-volume series of sermons by Bruce Taylor based on the Common Lectionary (Revised). Together, they provide a theologically rich, sacramentally reflective, ecumenically compatible, and biblically centered collection of proclamations for Sundays and major feast days. An appendix to this volume offers a sermon preached as a departure from the lectionary following the tornado that devastated Norman, Oklahoma, when the author was serving as a pastor in Ponca City. His sermons bear strong evidence of his commitment to Christian unity and dedication to the church's heritage as well as his conviction of its contemporary relevance through corporate witness and individual discipleship. Included in this compilation for the second half of the church year, featuring Gospel readings from Luke, are several story sermons that illustrate the use of this form of preaching within the lectionary framework. Christ's New Address is offered for use by preachers and devotional readers alike, who will find it an engaging invitation to the beauty of sacramental worship and the comfort and challenge of the scripture passages that are commended for Christian worship in the lectionary cycle.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Day of Pentecost: “The Spirit Comes to Old First”
• Trinity Sunday: “The Lesson Isn’t Over”
• Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Fire and Rain”
• Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The God of Life”
• Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Christ’s New Address”
• Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “What Shall We Do with Our Demons?”
• Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Pious Disobedience”
• Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Taking It Seriously”
• Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Doing Love”
• Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Gift, Glue, and Goal”
• Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Prophetic Living”
• Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Living into Baptism”
• Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Word of God”
• Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Simple Answer That Complicates the Question”
• Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Eyes toward Heaven”
• Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Artifacts of the Covenant”
• Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: “No Place for a Picnic”
• Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “A Reputation for Joy”
• Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “For Whom Do You Pray?”
• Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “A Deed of Hope”
• Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Sacrificing for Christ in a Convenience Culture”
• Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Miracle of Wholeness”
• Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Passing It On”
• Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Sovereign God”
• Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Our Neighbors in Paradise”
• All Saints’ Day: “Hope”
• Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Roadblock on the Way to God’s Future”
• Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Watering the Flowers”
• Christ the King: “The King Who Rules from a Cross”
• Evening before the National Day of Thanksgiving: “Paradise”
• Appendix
• Trinity Sunday: “Where Is God?”
• List of Sources Cited