Description: Providing original sermon ideas, new insights on the Scripture, and unique illustrations from a wide range of preaching clergy, The Abingdon Preaching Annual is a comprehensive resource that offers everything busy preachers need for sermon and worship preparation. The 2000 edition includes an entire year's worth of weekly worship services, sermon briefs, and benedictions, and is especially useful to preachers who use The Revised Common Lectionary to design their sermons and Sunday morning worship.

Each month begins with a devotional exercise, which includes a prayer and journal assignment, specifically designed to nurture the preacher's own spiritual journey with Christ. The Abingdon Preaching Annual features:
-- 156 sermon briefs -- three sermon briefs for each Sunday of the year, each highlighting one of the featured lectionary texts
-- 52 complete Sunday services -- weekly worship services that include worship themes, pastoral prayer, and call to worship
-- Seasonal and special-occasion benedictions, a Scripture index, and a complete listing of readings for the lectionary year
-- Sermons for holidays and special days of the year
-- 12 devotions for preachers -- monthly encouragement for the preacher's spiritual life

Among the contributors to the 2000 Edition are John Killinger, Carol Noren, Derl Keefer, David Dockery, Joseph Byrd, Earl Davis, Donna Schaper, Thomas Gildermeister, plus several other noted preaching authorities.

The 2000 software edition of The Abingdon Preaching Annual offers preachers who use The Revised Common Lectionary original sermon ideas, unique illustrations, and fresh insight into the weekly lectionary Scripture texts. Twenty-eight leading authorities on preaching provide more than 200 items that can easily be searched, read, printed, or edited in one's favorite word processing software by using the clipboard "cut and paste. Folio Views search engine allows users to search by date, topic, name, or phrase.

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