Download or read book Lectionary Poems Year A written by Scott L. Barton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of insightful, often humorous, and always grace-filled poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days. Based on one or more texts for Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms—each poem reveals surprises about God much like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. For preachers, the poems here will be a joyful springboard to the sermon, each one a mini-sermon in itself; and for people in the pews, a brand-new way of thinking about the Bible. The index of 124 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “The Once and Future Comeuppance of the Butters,” “What’s Really Original Here,” “Three Drinking Limericks,” and “They Thought It Was the Feds,” these poems will help the reader discover the God known and shown by Jesus and the earliest faith communities as amazing, abundant, boundary-pushing, and bold.
Download or read book Lectionary Poems Year A written by Scott L. Barton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of insightful, often humorous, and always grace-filled poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days. Based on one or more texts for Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms—each poem reveals surprises about God much like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. For preachers, the poems here will be a joyful springboard to the sermon, each one a mini-sermon in itself; and for people in the pews, a brand-new way of thinking about the Bible. The index of 124 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “The Once and Future Comeuppance of the Butters,” “What’s Really Original Here,” “Three Drinking Limericks,” and “They Thought It Was the Feds,” these poems will help the reader discover the God known and shown by Jesus and the earliest faith communities as amazing, abundant, boundary-pushing, and bold.
Download or read book Lectionary Poems Year B written by Scott L. Barton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a second book of engaging, creative, and theologically astute poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days based on the texts for Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms. With the conviction that Scripture always proclaims something new about God, each of these 107 poems reveal a surprise, often with humor, like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. There are five new hymn texts with suggested tunes, and another poem can be a light-hearted choir anthem. For preachers, study groups, and personal devotions, the index of 128 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “Kind of Disturbed by Some of These Scriptures,” “Does Jesus Still Thumb His Nose?” and “From the KJV to Shazam!” these poems will provoke, amuse, inform, and inspire anyone who suspects the Bible’s purpose is to proclaim grace for our lives.
Download or read book Lectionary Poems Year C written by Scott L. Barton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in the series of poems based on texts from the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters and Psalms which look to the heart of each text in order to provoke in the reader a new experience of the good news of God. They are written in a variety of poetic styles and rhythms, sometimes with humor, sometimes with an eye to the issues of contemporary life which the gospel addresses, and always with faith that there is something new for the people of God every day. This volume has 150 poems and includes seven new hymn texts with suggested tunes. Arranged chronologically for Church Year C, the index of all 147 biblical references will be useful even for those not specifically following the lectionary. With titles like “The End of Going to Church”; “To the Readers of the Christmas Story: No More ‘Ho-Hum, the Reading of Scripture’”; “Send in the Clowns”; “Omega 3 Antidote to Scarcity”; “Comeuppance of a Blowhard”; and “All This Mommixity and Foofaraw,” these poems will delight, inform, and inspire preachers, devotional readers, and study groups alike.
Download or read book Poems for a Pray er written by Wick Anderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world slowly emerging from pandemic & on edge from conflict - we don't seem to need as many new theologians or politicians as much as we need poets who pray. Perhaps you try to pray daily, but over time it becomes such a routine. You find yourself saying many of the same words and phrases, unsure how you might tap into another way of praying. Perhaps you try to read scripture daily, but over time it becomes routine. You find yourself reading many of the same passages, unsure how you might tap into another approach to scripture. To put it most simply: 1. Open Bible to daily scripture passage. 2. Pray to invite God to be present & guide the moment. 3. Read the passage slowly in prayer. 4. Read the poem as part of your own prayerful response. (fix or improve the poem if you want, or write your own!) 5. Offer your own response as led, & listen to the heart of God. What I've collected here are hundreds of poems, written each day throughout most of 2019-2020. This is known to many as "Lectionary Year A" (of which there are also Years "B" and "C"). It begins roughly in Advent 2019, and leads up to Advent 2020 - which begins the next Lectionary cycle. I have usually selected one scripture from among each day's readings (using the Revised Common Lectionary - available for free online), to respond poetically to as an act of prayer and worship. I have marked the Sundays specifically according to the Lectionary calendar, in case you're beginning the year late or have taken a break for a time. I realize the timing of the release is "out of schedule" for those strictly adhering to the lectionary cycles. If that's you, come back when it's time and these will still be waiting!
Download or read book A Gospel Treasury written by Andrew Daughters and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered "Yes!" you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters for Cycle B. Use these inspirational poems in your church's worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long. This book is part of a three-part set, which follows the Lectionary cycles A, B and C. Andrew Daughters is a former pastor of Saint Alban's Episcopal church in Brentwood, a small town in California. He has served in congregations small and large in California, Nevada, and Washington. Three times the small parishes he has pastored have grown to be self-supporting strong parishes. He still is partial to the small church. He and his wife live in a home they built in the California Delta.
Download or read book There is a Future written by Amy Bornman and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning about the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, a rabbinic form of textual interpretation that seeks and imagines answers to unanswerable questions, felt to Amy Bornman like a poetic invitation to re-engage with the Bible in a new way. There is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash – an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition – grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily midrashic poems in response to the readings—to honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the author’s own life—emerging at year’s end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the text’s enduring questions continue to ring.
Download or read book Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels written by Elizabeth Michael Boyle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can an understanding of the poetics of the Gospels, together with a reading of poetry inspired by them, make the homily an art form as compelling as a poetry performance? In Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels, Elizabeth Michael Boyle, O.P., offers a preaching guide to the Sunday Lectionary using the insights of poets to enliven and elicit more powerful homilies. Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels demonstrates that not only the Fourth Gospel but also the Synoptics can be read with special understanding when they are interpreted as narrative poetry. For each Sunday, from the first Sunday in Advent through Trinity Sunday, the author offers a poet's reflection on the literary devices in the liturgical texts, and a gathering of poems about the gospel event. Chapters are "Incarnation: Advent to Epiphany, " "Redemption: Ash Wednesday through Holy Week, " "Resurrection: The Sundays of Easter, " "Transformation: Ascension to Trinity Sunday, " and "Reclaiming the Poetry of Ordinary Time."
Download or read book Breaking Bread with the Dead written by Alan Jacobs and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spectator Book of the Year It's fashionable to think of the writers of the past as irredeemably tarnished by prejudice. Aristotle despised women. John Milton, the great champion of free speech, wouldn't have granted it to Catholics. Edith Wharton's imaginative sympathies stopped short of her Jewish characters. But what if it is only through the works of such individuals that we can achieve a necessary perspective on the troubles of the present? Join literary scholar Alan Jacobs for a truly nourishing feast of learning. Discover what Homer can teach us about force, what Machiavelli has to say about reading and what Charlotte Brontë reveals about race. Not all the guests are people you might want to invite into your home, but they all bring something precious to the table. In Breaking Bread with the Dead, an omnivorous reader draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with minds across the ages, from Horace to Donna Haraway.
Download or read book Rehearsing Scripture written by Anna Carter Florence and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular preacher Anna Carter Florence explores how to read, encounter and interpret Scripture as it was originally intended - by doing so collectively with others. Drawing on practices from drama and the theatre, she shows how to bring familiar texts to life, uncovering meaning and better apprehending biblical truth for daily life. Her methods are illuminating, easy to grasp, and easily adaptable to a variety of contexts - ideal for study group leaders and pastors seeking to bring the Bible and the real lives of congregations into conversation. Full of helps for preachers especially, Rehearsing Scripture invites groups and churches to gather around a shared text and encounter God anew together.
Download or read book Sounding the Seasons written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.
Download or read book Literary Companion to the Lectionary written by Mark Pryce and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book offers poems and literary pieces for Sundays and principal feasts throughout the liturgical year. Each selection relates to an aspect of the Scripture readings for the Eucharist in the Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Catholic lectionary, and the Book of Common Prayer. Drawn from many centuries and many countries-including Britain, Ireland, North America, Africa, and Australia, these readings bridging literature and liturgy can prompt private prayer or public worship through imaginative engagement. A short note before each passage connects with an idea, image, or story found in one of the biblical readings or the seasonal theme. From Robert Herrick to Brendan Kennelly, from Christina Rossetti to Emily Dickinson, from Dante to Monica Furlong, the poets, novelists, and playwrights gathered here bring an added dimension that graces the life of the church.
Download or read book Another Scroll written by Amy G. S. A. Brooks and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A timely and poetic journey through sacred texts that causes the reader to pause and consider matters worthy of our action, repentance and transformation. Another Scroll is in defiance to oppression and encouraging to the work of liberation.”—The Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, Associate Professor of Constructive Theology, Meadville Lombard Theological School. To the Revised Common Lectionary, Amy G. S. A. Brooks adds another scroll of holy texts: gritty, fiercely loving, justice-minded poems that defy theological oppression. Another Scroll: Defiant Readings for Lectionary Year C is a sacred invitation to open the scripture and allow it to unfurl with the courageous affirmation of every reader. As Brooks notes, “Beloved, in case no one has told you: you are whole, you are holy, you are wholly loved.”
Download or read book Reading Revelation Responsibly written by Michael J. Gorman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation in a responsible way and a theological engagement with the text itself. He takes interpreting the book as a serious and sacred responsibility, believing how one reads, teaches, and preaches Revelation can have a powerful impact on one's own--and other people's--well-being. Gorman pays careful attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its connections to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith. Rather than a script for the end times, Gorman demonstrates how Revelation is a script for Christian worship, witness, and mission that runs counter to culturally embedded civil religion.
Download or read book Poems for a Pray er written by Wick Anderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world slowly emerging from pandemic & on edge from conflict - we don't seem to need as many new theologians or politicians as much as we need poets who pray. Perhaps you try to pray daily, but over time it becomes such a routine. You find yourself saying many of the same words and phrases, unsure how you might tap into another way of praying. Perhaps you try to read scripture daily, but over time it becomes routine. You find yourself reading many of the same passages, unsure how you might tap into another approach to scripture. To put it most simply: 1. Open Bible to daily scripture passage. 2. Pray to invite God to be present & guide the moment. 3. Read the passage slowly in prayer. 4. Read the poem as part of your own prayerful response. (fix or improve the poem if you want, or write your own!) 5. Offer your own response as led, & listen to the heart of God. What I've collected here are hundreds of poems, written each day throughout most of 2020-2021. This is known to many as "Lectionary Year B" (of which there are also Years "A" and "C"). It begins roughly in Advent 2020, and leads up to Advent 2021 - which begins the next Lectionary cycle. I have usually selected one scripture from among each day's readings (using the Revised Common Lectionary - available for free online), to respond poetically to as an act of prayer and worship. I have marked the Sundays specifically according to the Lectionary calendar, in case you're beginning the year late or have taken a break for a time. I realize the timing of the release is "out of schedule" for those strictly adhering to the lectionary cycles. If that's you, come back when it's the right time and these will still be waiting!
Download or read book Poems for a Pray er written by Wick Anderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world slowly emerging from pandemic & on edge from conflict - we don't seem to need as many new theologians or politicians as much as we need poets who pray. Perhaps you try to pray daily, but over time it becomes such a routine. You find yourself saying many of the same words and phrases, unsure how you might tap into another way of praying. Perhaps you try to read scripture daily, but over time it becomes routine. You find yourself reading many of the same passages, unsure how you might tap into another approach to scripture. To put it most simply: 1. Open Bible to daily scripture passage. 2. Pray to invite God to be present & guide the moment. 3. Read the passage slowly in prayer. 4. Read the poem as part of your own prayerful response. (fix or improve the poem if you want, or write your own!) 5. Offer your own response as led, & listen to the heart of God. What I've collected here are hundreds of poems, written each day throughout most of 2019-2020. This is known to many as "Lectionary Year C" (of which there are also Years "A" and "B"). It begins roughly in Advent 2021, and leads up to Advent 2022 - which begins the next Lectionary cycle. I have usually selected one scripture from among each day's readings (using the Revised Common Lectionary - available for free online), to respond poetically to as an act of prayer and worship. I have marked the Sundays specifically according to the Lectionary calendar, in case you're beginning the year late or have taken a break for a time. I realize the timing of the release is "out of schedule" for those strictly adhering to the lectionary cycles. If that's you, come back when it's time and these will still be waiting!
Download or read book A Garland of Faith written by John Blakesley and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of medieval materials that complement the Revised Common Lectionary readings. Useful as an extra liturgical resource, for homily material, or for personal devotion.
