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Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one...

dream in which an angel explains to him that Mary’s pregnancy is of divine origin. The angel addresses him as “son of David,” reminding the readers of the genealogical problem. Jesus can be son of David only through Joseph, yet Joseph is not his biological father. This problem is solved by the angel in verse 21: “you shall name him Jesus.” By naming the baby, Joseph acknowledges him as his son; in effect, Joseph adopts Jesus, and thus incorporates him legally into David’s genealogy. Twice in this
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