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Word is Very Near You

Sundays - Preaching the Lectionary

by John Pridmore

  • Paperback
  • 416 pages
  • Publisher: Canterbury Press
  • 15 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm

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For the many thousands of clergy, readers and lay preachers who, week by week, seek inspiration as they prepare sermons on the set lectionary readings, here is an expert, wise and extremely down to earth guide. He may have a PhD and have taught at the University of Cambridge, but John Pridmore's preaching skills were forged in a parish in one of the most notorious areas of London's East End where there was absolutely no room for platitudes or escapist readings of the Scriptures. He quickly learned that in such a context, the Bible actually did have some real, gritty meaning for today or it had none at all. With this approach, and with his outstanding gifts as writer, he has written on the lectionary readings each week in the "Church Times" for the last three years. Wisdom, strongly tempered by reality, shines out from every paragraph as he skilfully explores, interprets and applies the set readings. Many such lectionary commentaries and companions exist already, but John Pridmore's contribution to this genre will be widely welcomed.
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  • Author

    John Pridmore

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Canterbury Press

  • Published

    September 2009

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    416

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781853119514

  • ISBN-10

    1853119512

  • Eden Code

    1951041

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    These ‘reflections’ on the three readings set for the Principal Service on Sundays through the three years of the lectionary cycle might be sermons. They might be private meditations. They might even be notes for students. Pridmore says he is asking one question: ‘What do we learn from the Bible about what it means to follow Jesus?’ But in exploring the Gospel for each Sunday, and in confronting complexities squeezed out of public worship, he draws on art, literature, places and people, and personal memories, as well as scholarship and the accompanying biblical readings, to articulate the details of faith. The results are diverse, and stimulating in their use of reading to understand living.

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