Big Lessons From Little Known Letters
Second Lesson Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (Middle Third), Cycle C
Kirk R. Webster

Have you been wronged and are not sure how to respond? Maybe you go back and forth between wanting to let go and wanting to get even. Chances are good you have spent considerable emotional energy exploring alternatives toward evening up the score just a bit. But wait. Even if the score is settled, will your injured heart be healed? Probably not. In fact, trying to get even might just make matters worse. (from Proper 18 sermon, "Giving Up On Getting Even")

These ten sermons based on the Revised Common Lectionary summarize great teaching themes from lesser-known portions of the New Testament. It's proof that small is good, especially as readers explore nuggets of wisdom from Paul and other authors of the epistles. While particularly useful to pastors, these messages offer an abundant dose of spiritual power to all who read and digest them.

Titles include:
The Great Motivator -- Colossians 1:15-28
No Pain, No Gain -- Hebrews 11:29-12:2
Who Can You Trust? -- Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Giving Up On Getting Even -- Philemon 1-21
Messes Into Miracles -- 1 Timothy 1:12-17

The pastor of St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth, Colorado, Kirk R. Webster holds degrees from Western State College (Gunnison, Colorado) and Denver Seminary. He is a D.Min. candidate at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida.