Seeking: Sermon Planning Guide for Lent–Easter (Year A)
Seeking: Sermon Planning Guide for Lent–Easter (Year A)
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday (Year A), this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and recommendations for further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures in light of our Seeking theme by Rev. Danielle Shroyer and Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow.
We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We encourage you to use this guide as a companion to the poetry, visual art, devotional, and other materials in the bundle—allowing all of the words, images, and ideas to cross-pollinate. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying Sermon Planning Grid. Additionally, you might use this guide to facilitate adult education sessions or small groups.
DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
34-page PDF Sermon Planning Guide for the RCL scriptures for Ash Wednesday, 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday (Year A). For each of these 10 holy days, we provide:
Biblical commentary (written by our guest contributors, Rev. Danielle Shroyer and Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow).
Theme connections (for connecting the texts to the Seeking theme and weekly sub-themes).
Guiding questions (to inspire your homiletical and exegetical readings of the texts).
Recommendations for further reading & research (pointing you to the work of diverse theologians and thinkers to inform your sermon).
PDF Sermon-Planning Grid (fillable sheets) for mapping out your ideas in a cohesive way throughout the entire series.
CREDIT INFO:
Commentary by Rev. Danielle Shroyer and Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow | Guide developed by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org
Words for the Beginning Sermon Planning Guide for Advent–Epiphany