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This volume provides a full fifty-two weeks of devotional material based on the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C. Drawing from the insightful Bible commentaries in the Connections series, each week of offerings also includes scriptural and literary readings, lectio divina, spiritual practices, questions for journaling, and a prayer. This resource has been crafted with mainline, lectionary preachers and lay leaders in mind, both to supplement their planning for the week and to feed their souls in the midst of the work of ministry. Individuals and small groups will find their faith deepened through regular contemplation and devotional insight.

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Publié par	Presbyterian Publishing
Date de parution	30 août 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781646982615
Langue	English

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Praise for the Series
“What a rich devotional! Scripture—beribboned with trenchant questions, goading insights, and invitations to sit, to pray, to write. Invitations to read Zora Neale Hurston and W. H. Auden. Yes, please!”
— Lauren F. Winner, author of Wearing God
“Offering excerpts from the biblical text and the Connections commentary series, questions for deeper reflection, lectio divina , and space for personal reflection and thoughts, Everyday Connections provides a rich and essential resource to strengthen and support your spiritual and devotional practice.”
— Song-Mi Suzie Park, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
“Given the richness of this devotional companion to the Connections commentary, I can’t imagine it sitting on your shelf unused! Designed with simplicity yet filled with depth, it is a resource that will help you engage Scripture and life both more fully and more joyfully. The flexibility built into its use—individually, in small groups, and in relation to worship—gives this guide longevity well beyond a particular lectionary year.”
— Marjorie Thompson, author of Soul Feast
“In days of great tumult and stress, the guided meditations on Scripture and the prompts to prayer collected in Everyday Connections are a welcome balm and generous call to heed God’s voice in the everyday life of those of us who yearn to follow Jesus. In days of joy and hope, this same book invites believers to praise a God whose word shows us the way of faithfulness and whose grace is ever abounding.”
— Eric D. Barreto, Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary
“Everyday Connections leads readers through the spiritual practice of centering our heads and hearts in faithful reflection and connection. It resources the writings of the Bible as well as the broader spiritual and intellectual resources of the Christian tradition, inviting us to link Christian wisdom, images, and teachings to the lived experiences of our communities and the communities of others. I commend this resource to pastors, chaplains, laypeople, and teachers engaged in the hermeneutical task of rendering biblical texts meaningful for our contemporary realities. If you seek to cultivate fresh engagement with the Bible, communities, the Christian lectionary calendar, and the self and to have fresh voices accompany you along the way, this resource can guide you in that endeavor.”
— Shively T. J. Smith, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Boston University
Everyday Connections
ALSO AVAILABLE IN THIS SERIES
Everyday Connections: Reflections and Practices for Year C
Everyday Connections
Reflections and Practices for Year A
Edited by Heidi Haverkamp
© 2022 Westminster John Knox Press
Responses and prayers © 2022 Heidi Haverkamp

First edition
Published by Westminster John Knox Press
Louisville, Kentucky
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Haverkamp, Heidi, editor.
Title: Everyday connections : reflections and practices for Year C / edited by Heidi Haverkamp.
Description: First edition. | Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, 2021. | Series: Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship | Includes index. | Summary: “This volume provides a full fifty-two weeks of devotional prompts based on the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C, drawing from the insightful Bible commentaries in the Connections series”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021021819 (print) | LCCN 2021021820 (ebook) | ISBN 9780664264529 | ISBN 9781646982059 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Common lectionary (1992). Year C—Prayers and devotions. | Church year—Prayers and devotions. | LCGFT: Devotional literature.
Classification: LCC BV30 .E94 2021 (print) | LCC BV30 (ebook) | DDC 263/.9—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021819
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021820

Everyday Connections, Year A
ISBN: 9780664264536 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781646982615 (ebook)

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Contents
A Note from the Publisher
How to Use This Book
First Sunday of Advent
Second Sunday of Advent
Third Sunday of Advent
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Christmas Week
Second Sunday after Christmas Day
Epiphany of the Lord
Baptism of the Lord
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany
Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany
Ninth Sunday after the Epiphany
Transfiguration Sunday
Ash Wednesday
First Sunday in Lent
Second Sunday in Lent
Third Sunday in Lent
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Palm/Passion Sunday
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter Day/Resurrection of the Lord
Second Sunday of Easter
Third Sunday of Easter
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Ascension of the Lord
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Day of Pentecost
Trinity Sunday
Proper 3 (Sunday between May 22 and May 28)
Proper 4 (Sunday between May 29 and June 4)
Proper 5 (Sunday between June 5 and June 11)
Proper 6 (Sunday between June 12 and June 18)
Proper 7 (Sunday between June 19 and June 25)
Proper 8 (Sunday between June 26 and July 2)
Proper 9 (Sunday between July 3 and July 9)
Proper 10 (Sunday between July 10 and July 16)
Proper 11 (Sunday between July 17 and July 23)
Proper 12 (Sunday between July 24 and July 30)
Proper 13 (Sunday between July 31 and August 6)
Proper 14 (Sunday between August 7 and August 13)
Proper 15 (Sunday between August 14 and August 20)
Proper 16 (Sunday between August 21 and August 27)
Proper 17 (Sunday between August 28 and September 3)
Proper 18 (Sunday between September 4 and September 10)
Proper 19 (Sunday between September 11 and September 17)
Proper 20 (Sunday between September 18 and September 24)
Proper 21 (Sunday between September 25 and October 1)
Proper 22 (Sunday between October 2 and October 8)
Proper 23 (Sunday between October 9 and October 15)
Proper 24 (Sunday between October 16 and October 22)
Proper 25 (Sunday between October 23 and October 29)
All Saints (November 1 or the Sunday following)
Proper 26 (Sunday between October 30 and November 5)
Proper 27 (Sunday between November 6 and November 12)
Proper 28 (Sunday between November 13 and November 19)
Proper 29 (Reign of Christ)
Appendix: A Suggested Format for Small Groups
Sources of Further Connections
Contributors
Scripture Index
About the Editor
A Note from the Publisher
T his devotional resource is part of the series Connections: A Lectionary Commentary for Preaching and Worship. Connections embodies two complementary convictions about the study of Scripture. First, to best understand an individual passage of Scripture, we should put it in conversation with the rest of the Bible. Second, since all truth is God’s truth, we should bring as many “lenses” as possible to the study of Scripture, drawn from as many sources as we can find. The essential idea of Connections is that biblical texts display their power most fully when they are allowed to interact with a number of contexts, that is, when many connections are made between a biblical text and realities outside that text. Like the two poles of a battery, when the pole of the biblical text is connected to a different pole (another aspect of Scripture or a dimension of life outside Scripture), creative sparks fly and energy surges from pole to pole.
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), which has wide ecumenical use, Connections offers hundreds of essays on the full array of biblical passages in the three-year cycle. Two major interpretive essays, called Commentary 1 and Commentary 2, address every scriptural reading in the RCL. Commentary 1 explores connections between a lectionary reading and other texts and themes within Scripture, and Commentary 2 makes connections between the lectionary texts and themes in the larger culture outside of Scripture. These essays have been written by pastors, biblical scholars, theologians, and others.
During the seasons of the Christian year (Advent through Epiphany and Lent through Pentecost), the RCL provides three readings and a psalm or canticle for each Sunday and feast day: (1) a first reading, usually from the Old Testament; (2) a psalm or canticle, chosen to respond to the first reading; (3) a second reading, usually from one of the New Testament epistles; and (4) a Gospel reading. The first and second readings are chosen as complements to the Gospel reading for the day.