Reviewed by Neal Presa

Charlie Self, Flourishing Churches and Communities: A Pentecostal Primer on Faith, Work, and Economics for Spirit-Empowered Discipleship (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian’s Library Press, 2013).

by Remington Slone

Here are useful insights for pastors and others into all the Scripture selections from the Revised Common Lectionary for the period cited above.

by Darla Turlington

Here are quotations from the Bible as well as from secular writings that pastors and others may find useful in sermons, essays, or other venues.

by Jin Hee Han

Our first issue of this year sets the course for the year, centering on the theme of the DISCIPLE. Our authors in this issue guide us through many transforming venues in which we find ourselves as learners of the way of heaven. Jesus’ unparalleled teaching of loving enemies and his life-giving sacrifice on the cross abide as the mark and price of being a faithful DISCIPLE.

compiled by Remington Slone

Lectionary Notes from November 1 Year C Through January 26 Year A

selected by Darla Turlington

Quotations on (Super)abundance.

Reviewed by Keith A. Russell

Lectionary based, the new biblical commentary series released by Fortress is an interesting and helpful resource for preachers in that it seeks to bring together both topical/theme inquiry and exegetical treatment of biblical texts.

Reviewed by Neal D. Presa

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
In his battle with a bone disease that renders him in agonizing pain and preparing for a bone marrow transplant, Wiman recounted his wrestling and grappling with the God whom he knows and pondering the future of his wife and child.

By Jin Hee Han

As our new issue on SUPERABUNDANCE comes to light, the fall season is firmly in place. It is the time of harvest with the bountiful gifts of heaven. Superabundance is a generous giver that gives without expecting anything in return. We are charged to be good stewards of the good news of the reign of God, from whom superabundance flows.

by Remington Slone

Lectionary Guide for August through October, 2013

Collected by Darla Turlington

Here are useful quotations from Scripture and Literature for pastors and others seeking reinforcement for a point or perhaps even a sermon title or idea—no permissions needed for use.

By Jin Hee Han

This issue is packed with insights about the important theme of steadfast love. It translates the Hebrew ḥesed. Such a tiny term with a gigantic gist! Our readers will also detect the joy that our writers have embedded in their reflections on steadfast love. This fall issue of The Living Pulpit blesses our journey of faith as well as the time of our morning devotion when we start the day with hunger for the signs of God’s steadfast love in our daily life.