Lectionary Poems, Year A: Surprising Grace for Pulpit and Pew - Softcover

Barton, Scott L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1725253062 ISBN 13: 9781725253063

Publisher: Resource Publications, 2019

Synopsis

This is a book of insightful, often humorous, and always grace-filled poems for each Sunday of the church year and occasional other days. Based on one or more texts for Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary—Original Testament, Gospel, Letters, and Psalms—each poem reveals surprises about God much like the proclamations made by the biblical writers. For preachers, the poems here will be a joyful springboard to the sermon, each one a mini-sermon in itself; and for people in the pews, a brand-new way of thinking about the Bible. The index of 124 biblical references will make the book usable at any time. With titles like “The Once and Future Comeuppance of the Butters,” “What’s Really Original Here,” “Three Drinking Limericks,” and “They Thought It Was the Feds,” these poems will help the reader discover the God known and shown by Jesus and the earliest faith communities as amazing, abundant, boundary-pushing, and bold.

About this title

About the Author

Scott L. Barton is a Presbyterian minister who has served churches as pastor in the presbyteries of Northern New York and Philadelphia, and in Vermont and Massachusetts. He has been a presbytery stated clerk and a fourth-grade teacher; and he currently sings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1725253062
• ISBN 13: 9781725253063
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128