What Happens Next?

More Sermons for the Lectionary, Year B, Advent through Eastertide

Bruce L. Taylor

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781666766165
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

Bruce Taylor's latest volume of sermons for the Common Lectionary (Revised) compiles traditional and story form proclamations for the Sundays and feast days from Advent through Eastertide in Year B of the three-year lectionary cycle. Theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive, and ecumenically minded, these biblically centered sermons articulate God's love for the whole creation, the profound implications of discipleship, and the necessity of Christian unity. Like its predecessors in Taylor's first and second journeys through the lectionary, What Happens Next? is intended for use by preachers, educators, seminary students, and devotional readers, who will all find it to be a welcome companion in penetrating the spiritual genius of the liturgical year and the usefulness of preaching from common texts. The book exemplifies how preaching from Mark's Gospel and the accompanying lectionary readings can shape interaction with the elements of the liturgy to encourage faithful Christian worship. The very uniqueness of Mark among the Gospels is elicited to prompt the whole church and each believer to respond to the question posed implicitly but insistently by the women's discovery of the empty tomb on Easter morning: What happens next?

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• First Sunday in Advent: “Waiting for a Certainty”
• Second Sunday in Advent: “We Have Work to Do”
• Third Sunday in Advent: “The Specifications of Salvation”
• Fourth Sunday in Advent: “The God of Possibilities”
• Christmas Eve: “Human Words and God’s Word”
• Nativity of Jesus Christ/Christmas Day: “Isn’t It a Miracle?”
• First Sunday after Christmas: “The Gift We Got”
• Second Sunday after Christmas: “Future Perfect”
• Epiphany of the Lord: “To Illuminate All”
• Baptism of the Lord: “Baptized People”
• Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The Best Evangelism”
• Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: “A Matter of Believing”
• Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “One with Authority”
• Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Asking the Right Questions”
• Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “The General Takes a Bath”
• Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: “A Lesson to Remember”
• Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “Written on the Heart”
• Transfiguration of the Lord: “Have You Been to the Mountaintop?”
• Ash Wednesday: “The Trouble with Religion”
• First Sunday in Lent: “God’s Heart-Struggle”
• Second Sunday in Lent: “Honest to Jesus”
• Third Sunday in Lent: “And Always Reforming”
• Fourth Sunday in Lent: “From Death to Life”
• Fifth Sunday in Lent: “Faith”
• Palm/Passion Sunday: “This One Is Lord”
• Maundy Thursday: “Whose Meal Is It?”
• Good Friday: “Where Do You Stand?”
• The Resurrection of the Lord (Sunrise)
• The Resurrection of the Lord: “What Happens Next?”
• Second Sunday of Easter: “No Solitary Christians”
• Third Sunday of Easter: “The Duty to Forgive”
• Fourth Sunday of Easter: “By What Power?”
• Fifth Sunday of Easter: “The Priority of Love”
• Sixth Sunday of Easter: “Journey to a New Creation”
• Ascension of the Lord: “Waiting”
• Seventh Sunday of Easter: “In But Not Of”
• Appendix
• Baptism of the Lord: “Giving Shape to Life”
• Ascension of the Lord: “The Best Advertisement”
• Presbytery of Cimarron: “Forgive and Forget”
• List of Sources Cited