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9781501815140 English 1501815148 A new version of the go-to resource for weekly lectionary-based sermon and worship planning! The Abingdon Preaching Annual has been redesigned to provide more of what busy preachers need each week to prepare sermons and worship services. This Annual offers a primary preaching theme based on one of the lectionary text for each week. A brief essay describes the theme and gives ideas for how to use it. One or more secondary preaching themes are also offered. Included are entries for special days such as Maundy Thursday and Christmas Eve. This Annual also provides help for planning worship each week with calls to worship, responsive readings, prayers of repentance, benedictions, and more-all based on the lectionary themes for the day. Another new feature is designed to help preacher build skill and stay tuned to current methods. Readers will find three book excerpts from recent, critically acclaimed books on preaching. Each essay offers practical help to hone the preaching craft. The 2017 Annual also includes eight full sermons from working preachers and preaching professors. Some of these are well known, like Will Willimon. Others are new voices. These sermons are meant to inspire and provide examples of excellence for the reader. In the back pages readers will find another help: an extensive list of recommended resources. These are books, blogs, and other resources for readers seeking to build their library of preaching helps. The Annual' contributors are working preachers from across the United States and from multiple denominations. Most serve small to average-sized congregations. Many are fairly new in pastoral ministry, some are longtime preachers. This offers a glimpse of how others approach the sacred weekly task of sermon preparation and ignites the reader's own imagination for the word proclaimed. Book jacket., The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2017 includes: The Primary Theme Fleshed out with brief, pithy nuggets of thought, idea jump-starters, or questions designed to spur the preacher's imagination. Secondary or Parallel Themes Two or three themes or streams of thought that are related to but separate from the primary theme offered. Worship Helps Including Gathering Prayer, Collect, Pastoral Prayer, Congregational Prayer, Responsive Reading, and a Closing Prayer or Benediction. Topical Essays These 700 word essays cover a variety of current and critical topics for the preacher--contributed by leading homileticians. Full Sermons The full text from six to twelve sermons will be included. Additional are available online. These sermons will highlight best practices, unique approaches, and fresh voices. Sermon Series Ideas This section will briefly outline and describe ideas for unique sermon series based on lectionary readings. "As a weekly preacher, I often find that preparing for preaching and crafting sermons are spiritual disciplines for me. It is a time in which I try to quiet all of the other 'to do' lists that occupy much of my ministry. This resource from Abingdon Press will now be a partner in those conversations, almost like a new personal devotional guide. I am grateful for additional voices who can help me make space for God's Living Word." - Shannon J Kershner, Pastor, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL "The Abingdon Preaching Annual is a valuable resource for today's preacher seeking to offer sermons with theological depth and thematic clarity. It seeks to activate the preacher's own reflection and imagination in the challenging task of weekly preaching." - Alyce M. McKenzie, Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship Director, The Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence
9781501815140 English 1501815148 A new version of the go-to resource for weekly lectionary-based sermon and worship planning! The Abingdon Preaching Annual has been redesigned to provide more of what busy preachers need each week to prepare sermons and worship services. This Annual offers a primary preaching theme based on one of the lectionary text for each week. A brief essay describes the theme and gives ideas for how to use it. One or more secondary preaching themes are also offered. Included are entries for special days such as Maundy Thursday and Christmas Eve. This Annual also provides help for planning worship each week with calls to worship, responsive readings, prayers of repentance, benedictions, and more-all based on the lectionary themes for the day. Another new feature is designed to help preacher build skill and stay tuned to current methods. Readers will find three book excerpts from recent, critically acclaimed books on preaching. Each essay offers practical help to hone the preaching craft. The 2017 Annual also includes eight full sermons from working preachers and preaching professors. Some of these are well known, like Will Willimon. Others are new voices. These sermons are meant to inspire and provide examples of excellence for the reader. In the back pages readers will find another help: an extensive list of recommended resources. These are books, blogs, and other resources for readers seeking to build their library of preaching helps. The Annual' contributors are working preachers from across the United States and from multiple denominations. Most serve small to average-sized congregations. Many are fairly new in pastoral ministry, some are longtime preachers. This offers a glimpse of how others approach the sacred weekly task of sermon preparation and ignites the reader's own imagination for the word proclaimed. Book jacket., The Abingdon Preaching Annual 2017 includes: The Primary Theme Fleshed out with brief, pithy nuggets of thought, idea jump-starters, or questions designed to spur the preacher's imagination. Secondary or Parallel Themes Two or three themes or streams of thought that are related to but separate from the primary theme offered. Worship Helps Including Gathering Prayer, Collect, Pastoral Prayer, Congregational Prayer, Responsive Reading, and a Closing Prayer or Benediction. Topical Essays These 700 word essays cover a variety of current and critical topics for the preacher--contributed by leading homileticians. Full Sermons The full text from six to twelve sermons will be included. Additional are available online. These sermons will highlight best practices, unique approaches, and fresh voices. Sermon Series Ideas This section will briefly outline and describe ideas for unique sermon series based on lectionary readings. "As a weekly preacher, I often find that preparing for preaching and crafting sermons are spiritual disciplines for me. It is a time in which I try to quiet all of the other 'to do' lists that occupy much of my ministry. This resource from Abingdon Press will now be a partner in those conversations, almost like a new personal devotional guide. I am grateful for additional voices who can help me make space for God's Living Word." - Shannon J Kershner, Pastor, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL "The Abingdon Preaching Annual is a valuable resource for today's preacher seeking to offer sermons with theological depth and thematic clarity. It seeks to activate the preacher's own reflection and imagination in the challenging task of weekly preaching." - Alyce M. McKenzie, Le Van Professor of Preaching and Worship Director, The Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence