Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 1 (Biblia.com)

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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...

Exegetical Perspective The passage for this Third Sunday after the Epiphany is located within a larger grouping of texts concerning disturbances within the worship context (chaps. 11–14) and, more immediately, within Paul’s address of spiritual gifts (chaps. 12–14). The present verses (vv. 12–31a) reinforce and extend the emphasis in verses 4–11 on the need for a diversity of spiritual gifts, which emerge from and mirror the diversity of God’s character. Dominating this section is Paul’s use of the

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