Happy New Year, Christmas 2 and Epiphany | Visual Lectionary Downloads for January 5, 2025
Happy New Year!
This week the preacher has choices. Do you focus on the New Year, the Second Sunday of Christmas, Epiphany (which is on Monday), or all of the above?
While we will be in Luke this year, the RCL starts with John this week…in the beginning. That’s a good place to begin the New Year! Blessings on your preaching and teaching this week.
Merry Christmas! | Visual Lectionary Downloads for Christmas and December 29, 2024
Merry Christmas! The big day has arrived. It is especially rich this year to tell the nativity story from Luke 2 on Christmas because we are entering the year of Luke in both the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary. I can’t wait to walk through this amazing Gospel with you over the next few months.
In this email I offer resources for both Christmas Eve/Day and for the first Sunday of Christmas. Here are the various resources you might find helpful:
The Christmas Story Bundle Pack. It contains:
PowerPoint/Image pack for Luke 1 and 2
Printable PDF of pages 1 and 2
A bonus PowerPoint that visually annotates the Nativity story in a fun way.
A YouTube video with a voice over reading of the Nativity story set to music and the images above
The standard weekly resource page for Sunday, December 29
Love and Life | Advent 4 | Visual Lectionary Downloads for December 22, 2024
We come to the fourth and final week of Advent. This week we celebrate love and life. Two pregnant women meet and rejoice in the life that is growing in their wombs. Elizabeth’s child reminds us of the matriarch Sarah and her son Isaac, when God gave a child to a woman in her old age. Mary’s child reminds us that God can bring life out of nothing, through the Spirit, just like God did in the first verses of Genesis. Mary sings to God and reminds us that God’s love is for all people, bringing down the arrogant oppressors and uplifting the humbled and oppressed.
Light the fourth candle this week and rejoice in the love and life that comes from God.
Finding Joy in the Wilderness | Advent 3 | Visual Lectionary Downloads for December 15, 2024
Download visual resources to help you preach, teach, and study the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for December 15, 2024.
For the Revised Common Lectionary
Zephaniah 3:14-20
Isaiah 12:2-6
Philippians 4:4-7
Luke 3:7-18
For the Narrative Lectionary
Isaiah 61:1-11
