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Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 4 is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints’ Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one...

Matthew draws on imagery from Daniel 7:13–14—where the Ancient of Days, enthroned in glory, bestows on “one like a son of man” (RSV) dominion and glory—to set forth the full manifestation of God’s reign. The passage opens with a vivid description of the Son of Man’s coming in glory, accompanied by angels, seated on his throne. The nations are then gathered and separated into two groups (vv. 31–33). Jesus is portrayed in his glorious return as a shepherd, an image Matthew employs throughout his Gospel
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