Introduction

Advent

Christmas

Epiphany

Lent

Easter

Sundays after Pentecost

The Revised Common Lectionary

The Bible on-line (including New Revised Standard version)

"Breakthrough" - A Weekly Gospel Exploration

"Marginally Mark", another resource for preachers and congregations

The Gospel of Luke

First Sunday of Advent

Second Sunday of Advent

Third Sunday of Advent

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Gathered in 'church', most congregations look surprisingly like pages of Scripture. All set in lines, row upon row. Here a stop. There a comma, An exclamation! A question or two?? But a congregation's life is lived mainly outside all these rows of pews and aisles, and Scripture itself arises from that outside life far more than from what goes on inside synagogue or church.