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Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 4 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...

anyone who sets himself or herself up to be another messiah, and we should be cautious not to develop a messianic complex of our own. But the proper response to human frailty is not to give up on the notion of leadership or action; it is to set up checks and balances within a community or organization. We must keep each other honest. We must be a community of accountability. Furthermore, we must also carefully consider the notion of self-sacrifice. In a powerful and moving act of self-sacrifice,
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