Cycle C Sermons for Advent / Christmas / Epiphany Based on the Gospel Texts
Wayne Brouwer
In this volume of sermons prepared by Wayne Brouwer, the reader will find illustrations that help to explain God's message in new and interesting ways. Finding stories and word pictures that more easily tie into the Lectionary readings for each Sunday will help the person in the pulpit make his sermon more compelling to the people in the pews.

Cycle C Sermons for Pentecost Day through Proper 12 Based on the Gospel Texts
Maurice A. Fetty
...we often deceive ourselves. If Plato advised "know thyself"and if his teacher, Socrates, said the "unexamined life is not worth living," many of us are afraid really to examine ourselves too closely, or to come to know who we really are.
— from the chapter "Getting at the Truth"

In this collection of sermons (including


Cycle C Sermons for Proper 13 through Proper 22 Based on Gospel Texts
Richard A. Jensen
In Filling the Hungry with Good Things, Jensen's sermons based on Luke's gospel are shaped primarily in story form and explore his investigation of the relationship between storytelling and preaching.

Cycle C Sermons for Proper 23 through Thanksgiving Based on the Gospel Texts
R. Robert Cueni
In this collection of sermons for the final weeks of the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C, the reader will find the common theme of "living through difficult times of maximal change."

In this volume, Cueni lets the text shape the sermon in some cases, while in others, lets the assigned gospel reading serve as a springboard for moving in a different direction.

First Lesson Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (Last Third), Cycle A
William A. Jones
A man who has delivered sermons on every continent, Dr. William Augustus Jones is a superlative preacher and has been cited as ”The Dean of New York’s Great Preachers” by the New York Daily News.

The son and grandson of Baptist ministe...

Gospel Sermons For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany, Cycle A
John B. Jamison
Loving people and caring for them isn’t enough to change the way the world works overnight.... Our caring isn’t enough to change all ”bad” into ”good.” But it is all we are asked to do. And it is enough. (from the sermon ”Enough”)

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First Lesson Sermons For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany, Cycle A
Paul E. Robinson
On these pages one encounters the moving image of the holy God with Isaiah in the temple, the powerful call to justice through the thundering voice of Amos, the depth of despair in the heart of Jeremiah and the struggle for faithfulness in the prophe...

First Lesson Sermons For Advent/Christmas/Epiphany, Cycle B
William L. Self
The Old Testament readings in the lectionary are often neglected during the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons in favor of the more direct and easier-to-preach New Testament passages. William Self brings his creative imagination to these scriptu

First Lesson Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (First Third), Cycle A
Leonard W. Mann
These sermons are written to be preached. They are inspired, practical, and filled with fascinating illustrations that keep members of a congregation listening for more.

Leonard Mann writes that the ”... purpose of this small book [is] to exa...

First Lesson Sermons For Lent/Easter, Cycle A
Richard E. Gribble
This book of sermons moves from the desert of Ash Wednesday to the cross of Calvary on Good Friday, to the empty tomb on Easter, and finally to Jesus' return to the Father. Richard Gribble's preaching style is vibrant and relevant to the person in th