Based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, this third in a series of three volumes provides resources for an entire year of sermons and offers practical help for preachers and others who use the Revised Common Lectionary. Beginning with Advent, this unique and comprehensive resource deals with lectionary texts for Year A. Each of the four texts, the Old Testament, Psalter, Gospel, and Epistle, for each Sunday and important festival day, including Christmas, Ash Wednesday, and Good Friday, is treated. A brief introdution for the day indicates the general thrust of the texts and the relationships among them, emphasizing the interpretation of the texts themselves. Also included are suggestions concerning the implications of the texts for life today.

Walter Brueggemann is Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia.

He is author of numerous books, including several Westminster John Knox Press publications: Abiding Astonishment: Psalms, Modernity, and the Making of History, The Bible Makes Sense; First and Second Samuel (Interpretation); Genesis (Interpretation); Hope within History; Power, Providence, and Personality: Biblical Insight Into Life and Ministry; and Using God's Resources Wisely: Isaiah and Urban Possibility. He is the coauthor of Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year B (WJK) and The Vitality of the Old Testament Traditions. Charles B. Cousar is Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of Galatians (Interpretation) and coauthor of Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year B and Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year C (WJK). Beverly R. Gaventa is Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary. She is coauthor of Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year B and Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year C (WJK). James D. Newsome is Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is author of The Hebrew Prophets and coauthor of Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year B and Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV-Year C (WJK).