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You'll find: • Weekly commentaries on the Revised Common Lectionary texts • Discussion questions for each week’s RCL readings • Narrative Lectionary commentaries • Scripture readings...

Final in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship

In this fourth video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture in a full-throated, soulful way. In this exercise, Bardwell delivers the alternate psalm for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Luke 1:46-55) using only the...

Third in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship

In the third video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture with strength that comes not from the reader, but from God. In this exercise, Bardwell delivers the psalm for the Third Sunday of Advent (Isaiah 12:2-6) in...

Second in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship

In the second video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture from the heart. After a brief introduction, Bardwell delivers the epistle for the Second Sunday of Advent (Philippians 1:3-11) after reciting the passage...

First in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship

In this 10-minute video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to read Bible passages in Advent effectively, so that not one word is lost. After a brief introduction, Bardwell delivers the psalm for First Sunday of Advent (Psalm 25) twice: once...

 

Otis Moss III reflects on ways to preach to different generations within the same congregation. The preacher, according to Moss, is a prophetic clarifier who can best communicate with those audiences if he or she is also a student of the culture. Otis Moss, III will be speaking and preaching...

Yvette Flunder reflects on the current state of Christianity in the US and sees in it a moment of reformation being worked by the Spirit.

"What we are lamenting about -- what we're calling, essentially, hemorrhaging from mainline church -- is the stuff of reformation." ...

Luke Powery explores the way that text and context relate in the sermon, advocating for fusing the biblical world and our world without judgment.

"When it comes to the judgment that a preacher could pass down on the things that are happening in culture, that's where I think there are some possible dead...

Anthony Bailey explores the many different factors that influence the hearers of a sermon and the way a sermon is held accountable to those factors.

"Being accountable in our preaching is attending to what is necessary to enliven, embolden, challenge, heal, bless, and maybe even sometimes coerce, the people...

Luke Powery expounds on the problem of using the language and models of business to characterize the ministry of the church.

"No one went to seminary to learn how to run a meeting ...  We came to seminary to learn about ministry, to serve God's people, to get connected to what God's doing in the world,...