Lent and Easter Sermons 2019
Based on Gospel and Second Readings in Cycle C
Schuyler Rhodes, Mark Ellingsen

Putting together a new key-note address each week is a huge undertaking. No matter how much experience you have in crafting your weekly message, whether years or only months, every pastor needs help now and then. Even renowned preachers need fresh approaches, new perspectives and illustrations that are current and get the listeners’ attention.

• Shouting Joy to the Storm by Schuyler Rhodes – 17 messages based on the Cycle C Gospel readings for Ash Wednesday through the the Ascension.
• A Rebellious Faith by Mark Ellingsen. Ellingsen’s homilies based on the Cycle C Second Readings for Ash Wednesday through the the Ascension.

These resources will bolster your preaching, reduce your preparation time and more importantly help to encourage and enhance the faith of your parishioners.

Schuyler Rhodes is the pastor of Temple United Methodist Church in San Francisco, California. He previously pastored Washington Square United Methodist Church in New York City, and served as executive director and campus pastor for the Wesley Foundation, a broad-based campus ministry at the University of California (Berkeley). Rhodes' commitment to social justice and peace has taken him around the globe. Over the last decade, he has traveled to more than a dozen countries, serving as a delegate to several consultations of the World Council of Churches, as the secretary of the Social and International Affairs Committee of the World Methodist Council, and as the chair of the board of directors for Pastors for Peace and the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing. He has also been a consultant on Peace and Justice Ministries for the Methodist Church's General Board of Global Ministries, developing liturgical and training materials as well as representing the General Board at numerous national and international gatherings. A prolific writer, Rhodes is an honors graduate of Drew University Theological School (M.Div.) and the State University of New York at Potsdam (B.A.).

Mark Ellingsen, a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), has been a professor of Church History at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1993. He graduated magna cum laude from Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania) and Yale University, from which he received three master's degrees in divinity, arts, and philosophy, as well as his Ph.D. He has authored eighteen books including Sin Bravely: A Joyful Alternative to a Purpose-Driven Life (Continuum) and The Integrity of Biblical Narrative (Wipf and Stock). He and his wife have three grown children. When he is not writing or teaching, Ellingsen enjoys discussing politics, sports, and playing guitar.