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Editor’s Note: Each week in August WorkingPreacher.org will publish commentaries that correspond with the readings for Season of Creation 2014: Series A (The Spirit Series). A full listing of worship resources (including liturgies to accompany the readings) can be found online at http://seasonofcreation.com/worship-resources/readings/. The (...)

Those of you who listen regularly to Sermon Brainwave, our weekly podcast text study that I co-host with my colleagues at Luther Seminary, Rolf Jacobson and Matt Skinner — and if you don’t, why not? (...)

Editor’s Note: Each week in August WorkingPreacher.org will publish commentaries that correspond with the readings for Season of Creation 2014: Series A (The Spirit Series). A full listing of worship resources (including liturgies to accompany the readings) (...)

A Look Ahead During September, leading up to the Feast Day of St. Francis, a growing number of congregations adopt the alternate lectionary Season of Creation. Next month, Working Preacher will host essays treating Year (...)

Discussion on texts for the Day of Pentecost (June 8, 2014): (Gospel) John 20:19-23 or Alt. Gospel John 7:37-39; (1st Reading) Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; (2nd Reading) 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13.

Discussion on texts for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (June 1, 2014): (Gospel) John 17:1-11; (1st Reading) Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35; (2nd Reading) 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11.

Last weekend I drove with some friends to the Red River Gorge of eastern Kentucky for a wildflower walk organized by Father John Rausch, a Glenmary priest and ecological advocate. He arranged for Dr. Tom (...)

Dear Working Preacher, What’s the difference between a promise and a threat? It’s a simple question, of course, but one with far-reaching implications. Consider: “I will always love you,” is a promise. Clear enough. But (...)

Join Profs. Eric Barreto, Cameron Howard, and Rolf Jacobson for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers the text for May 18, 2014: Acts (...)

Dear Working Preacher, By now you know that we at WorkingPreacher.org count on your gifts to sustain our work. If you haven’t yet made a gift, I’d ask you to do that now. And if (...)