Guides: Worship and Preaching: Preaching the Lectionary

Revised Common Lectionary

Need the texts for a specific Sunday? Use this book in Reference or the free websites below.

The Lectionary Bible by Abingdon Press Staff
Call Number: REF 264.34 L471
Publication Date: 1992
All the readings for Years A,B, and C in the Revised Common Lectionary in one spiral bound volume. This frequently used volume is in the Reference Collection.
The Revised Common Lectionary
A free website with texts for all Sundays of the three years in the New Revised Standard Version. Links to related art, prayers and other translations of the texts. Search by text to find the Sunday when it is read. From the Vanderbilt Divinity Library.

Commentary on the Lectionary Texts

Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary by David L. Bartlett (Editor); Barbara Brown Taylor (Editor)
Call Number: REF 251.6 F28
Publication Date: 2008-12
Westminster John Knox Press. In this twelve-volume set, each text has signed commentaries from four perspectives: theological, pastoral, exegetical and homiletical. This popular set is in the Reference Collection. Select the title above to view a page with all the volumes listed by year, each one linked.
Preaching Through the Christian Year by Fred B. Craddock; John H. Hayes; Carl R. Holladay; Gene M. Tucker
Call Number: 251.01 P92
Publication Date: 1992
Trinity Press International. Commentaries on the texts of each Sunday in three volumes.
Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary by Marion L. Soards; Thomas Dozeman; Kendall McCabe
Call Number: REF 251.6 S67
Publication Date: 1992-94
Abingdon Press. Commentaries on the texts for each Sunday as well as the relationships between the readings. At the end of each volume is a listing of texts used each week by four Christian traditions: Revised Common Lectionary, Roman Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran. This popular set is in the Reference Collection.
The Lectionary Commentary by Roger Van Harn (Editor)
Call Number: REF 251.6 L47
Publication Date: 2001
Texts are arranged in canonical order rather than by Sunday. The first readings are in volume 1, the Old Testament Readings and Acts. Volume 2 has the second readings, Acts and the Epistles. Volume 3 has commentaries on the Gospels. Each text is identified by the Sunday on which it is read. This popular set is in the Reference Collection.