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Drawing on Hebrew roots, Greek nuance, and the sweep of biblical history from Isaiah to the Transfiguration, these sermons ground each Sunday's Gospel in its cultural and historical soil before asking the harder contemporary question: so what do we do with this today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCovering the four Sundays of Advent through the Baptism of the Lord, Epiphany, and the Transfiguration, this series is a resource for preachers, Bible study leaders, and lay readers who want to meet the Word not just as a familiar story, but as a living encounter that changes how we see the world and our place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStay awake. He is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVicar Robert E. Glenn Jr. has been in ministry for over twenty-five years as a lay Bible teacher, worship leader, and senior pastor. He holds a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Bluffton University and is a Seminarian at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Iowa. 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It is to go looking for something; something of lasting value, something that does not rust, rot, or slip through your fingers when you need it most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this Cycle B Lenten and Easter series, Derl Keefer takes readers on what he calls a treasure hunt — through Ash Wednesday's call to honest self-examination, through the six Sundays of Lent and the profound arc of Holy Week, through the Easter morning light of John 20 and the rich series of post-resurrection appearances. Along the way, Keefer draws on sixty-plus years of preaching experience, a lifetime of pastoral storytelling, and a deep conviction that Scripture becomes a message to the person in the pew only when the Holy Spirit is involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are sermons that reach for the life illustrations; a wartime lifesaver who never received a thank-you, a preacher's father refusing aid to those who wouldn't help themselves, the old acrostic on prayer that opens into something deeper. They are honest about the struggle and clear about the power: the power that is not manufactured by the preacher or manufactured by the listener, but given, by the One who defeated death on Easter morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse these sermons as a resource, a starting place, a Holy Spirit-led prompt. Preach the word in season and out of season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDerl Keefer has been preaching for over sixty years in the evangelical tradition. 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It begins exactly where you are; in the interruptions, the conflicts, and the ordinary Tuesday afternoons when the dining room is closed and you have to improvise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this Cycle B collection of sermons for the Sundays after Pentecost, Reverend Sarah B. Miller invites readers into the long green season of Kingdomtide with both theological depth and pastoral warmth. Drawing from the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of John, these sermons trace what it means to live as a disciple of Jesus in the real world; the one we actually inhabit, full of tension, beauty, conflict, and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the wild-goose presence of the Holy Spirit to the miracle-in-the-interruption of a bleeding woman healed on the way to somewhere else, from the feeding of the five thousand to the hard word of Jesus that many disciples turned away from and walked no more — Miller unpacks the Gospel lessons with honesty, humor, and a preacher's heart for the person in the pew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiving in the Spirit's call is not a quiet life. It is a brave and holy business. These sermons are an invitation to take it seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Reverend Sarah B. Miller is an ordained minister and preacher who serves as a Cycle B worship resource author for CSS Publishing Company. 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And still, the rabbi from Nazareth keeps slipping his grip and pointing somewhere unexpected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Cycle B preaching resource covers the Sundays of Ordinary Time from Proper 17 through the Reign of Christ and Thanksgiving Day, following Mark's counter-cultural Gospel through the season when many churches call it \"ordinary.\" But nothing in Mark is ordinary. In these fourteen sermons, Bond finds Jesus in all the places we weren't looking — diagnosing the malignancy of sin like an x-ray that cannot be fooled by how nicely we dressed for the appointment; crossing deliberately into Gentile territory to go on record that God's grace has no border; turning the disciples' arguments about greatness upside-down by placing a child in the center of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheologically rich and culturally fluent, these sermons move easily between Luther's Latin and James Baldwin's prose, between Tolkien's Strider and Mark's Syrophoenician woman, between the cicadas outside the window and the living Christ who keeps turning the music right-side up just when we thought we had it figured out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who has gotten comfortable with Mark's Gospel — and needs to be surprised again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen C. 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