The Year of the Lord's Favor: Proclaiming Grace in the Year of Luke Book

Foreword Noel Davies 1

Preface 4

Introduction 6

Advent 1 C "Be alert" Luke 21:25-36 23

Advent 2 C "Speaking out" Luke 3:1-6 27

Advent 3 C "Cinderella" Luke 2:7-20 32

Advent 4 C "Getting local," Luke 1:39-45 36

Christmas Eve C "The Night Before Christmas" Luke 2:1-14 39

Christmas Day C "Off to join the world" John 1:1-14 41

Christmas 1 C "Get lost!" Luke 2:41-52 43

Christmas 2 C "Going Postal" John 1:10-18 46

Epiphany C "Losing the plot" Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 49

Epiphany 2 C "The guest is host" Isaiah 62:1-5; John 2:1-11 53

Epiphany 3 C "Incandescent clarity" Luke 4:14-20 56

Epiphany 4 C "Thinking big" Luke 4:21-30 60

Epiphany 5 C "What we all preach" Isaiah 6.1-8; corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11 63

Epiphany 6 C "The only earth we know" Luke 6:17-26 68

Transfiguration C "On the road with Jesus" Luke 9:28-36 72

Ash Wednesday C "Resurrection's preview" 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 75

Lent 1 C "Tempted as we are" Luke 4:1-13 79

Lent 2 C "Gimme Shelter" Luke 13:31-35 83

Lent 3 C "Just desserts?" Luke 13:1-9 87

Lent 4 C "Home" Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 90

Lent 5 C "Simple Gifts" John 12:1-8 94

Palm Sunday C "The stones shout aloud" Luke 19:28-40 97

Maundy Thursday C "How beautiful upon the mountains" John 13:1-17, 31b-35 100

Good Friday C "Behold the man" John 18:1-19:42 103

Easter C "Why seek the living among the dead?" Luke 24:1-12 106

Easter 2 C "So I send you" John 20:19-31 111

Easter 3 C "Out of control" John 21:1-19 115

Easter 4 C "How to draw cartoons" John 10:22-30 117

Easter 5 C "Play it again" John 13:31-35 119

Easter 6 C "Raise the public average" John 14:23-29 121

Ascension C "Bearing witness" Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53 124

Easter 7 C "Shared bread" John 17:20-26 127

Pentecost C "Ardor or order?" Acts 2:1-20; John 14:8-12 130

Trinity C "Dancing with Wolves" John 16:12-15 135

Proper 4 C "No empty world" Luke 7:1-10 139

Proper 5 C (Corpus Christi) "This is my body" Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 144

Proper 6 C "A time to break down, and a time to build up" Luke 7:36-8:3 150

Proper 7 C "The sound of silence" 1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a; Luke 8:26-39 154

Proper 8 C "Pilgrim through this barren land" Luke 9:51-62 157

Proper 9 C "Be the change you seek" Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 161

Proper 10 C "This is your life" Luke 10:25-37 165

Proper 11 C "Distraction" Luke 10:38-42 168

Proper 12 C "Seek and you will find" Luke 11:1-13 172

Proper 13 C "Cash in the attic" Luke 12:13-21 175

Proper 14 C "Don't be afraid" Luke 12:32-40 178

Proper 15 C "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" Hebrews 11:29-12:2; Luke 12:49-56 181

Proper 16 C "The bent-over woman" Luke 13:10-17 185

Proper 17 C "The same forever" Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14 189

Proper 18 C "Invitation to choose" Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Luke 14:25-33 193

Proper 19 C "Hard-wired care" Luke 15:1-10 197

Proper 20 C "Side by Side" Amos 8.4-7; Luke 16:1-13 202

Proper 21 C "Holding hands" Luke 16:19-31 206

Proper 22 C "Come, ye disconsolate" Lamentations 1:1-6; Luke 17:5-10 211

Proper 23 C "Join in with God's laughter" Luke 17:11-19 214

Proper 24 C "Stone and flesh" Jeremiah 31:27-34; Luke 18:1-8 217

Proper 25 C "Call for reformation" Luke 18:9-14 220

Proper 26 C "The Heretical Imperative" Isaiah 1:10-18; Psalm 32:1-7; Luke 19:1-10 223

Proper 27 C "Remembering forward" Luke 21:5-19 227

Proper 28 C "The Sense of an Ending" Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 21:5-19 233

Christ the King C "We preach Christ crucified" Jereniah 23:1-6; Luke 23:32-43 236