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Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Additional Essays is unavailable, but you can change that!

Feasting on the Word: Additional Essays include essays on the lections that are not covered in the Feasting on the Word print volumes. Essays included are from the Day of Pentecost through Proper 28, for Years A–C. The Revised Common Lectionary offers two tracks of Old Testament texts for the Season after Pentecost or Ordinary Time: a semicontinuous track, which moves through stories and...

Jesus delivers a clear message to the disciples: He wants them to continue his own mission—a mission he himself was given by the Father. But what exactly is the mission upon which he sends them? Unlike the Synoptics, the Gospel of John centers less on ethical teaching and more on teaching the person of Jesus as witness to God’s power and presence. Unlike, for example, the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18–20), which commands the disciples to go into the world, teaching Jesus’ message of the kingdom and
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