A Comment(ary) or Two

As usual, sermon-writing involves looking, not only in-depth at the texts, but also looking at commentaries, seeking out sermon illustrations, ideas, and talking points. And so, below, you will find the list of resources that I have been/that I am accessing in order to do this.



Text Studies Website, author Dan Nelson (Lutheran): Not extraordinarily helpful, but still can come in handy for a few points. 
http://sio.midco.net/danelson9/yeara/epiphany2a.htm  



Working Preacher:
http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching/aspx?lect_date=1/16/2011
Another of my favorite resources from this website is the Sermon Brainwave podcast... sadly, this has not yet been posted for these texts, so it looks like I will be writing this sermon without it.



From 2008's lessons, also from Working Preacher:
http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?lect_date=1/20/2008&tab=4



Textweek helpful resources:From the Anglican Diocese - This can sometimes be helpful, there are a few phrases that are helpful and I'm pondering over.
 http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/apr02m.shtml?



Blogs from Textweek:
http://www.sarahlaughed.net/lectionary/2008/01/second-sunday-a.html






Finally, I also subscribe to SermonWriter.com. This resource, each week, sends exegetical resources, a sermon sample, children's sermon ideas, and quotes/short stories related to the texts. Sometimes, the resource is very helpful in sparking an idea for a sermon... other times, not so much. I am still waiting for mine to arrive for the week of Epiphany 2A, but through this subscription, I also have acces to lectionary.org which allows me to search for texts in the archive. Because you need the subsription to access these, the link to access sermonwriter is: http://www.sermonwriter.com/ .



A few paper commentaries I will be accessing:
Paul D. Hanson's commentary in the Interpretation series, on Isaiah 40-66
Richard B. Hays's commentary in the Interpretation series on First Corinthians
Gerald Sloyan's commentary in the Interpretation series on John
N.T. Wright's commentary, John for Everyone Part 1



I will also be scouring Mark I. Pinsky's book The Gospel According to Disney, to see if there may be a sermon illustration in a Disney film, that connects with the themes of the texts.