The following list is a sampling of resources for those who preach. The Resource Center maintains a large collection of additional resources on preaching and homiletics. Your inquiries, suggestions, and input are welcome!

• Preaching, worship planning, Christian education resources and more at TextWeek.com (external link)
• Additional preaching helps from Luther Seminary at WorkingPreacher.org
• The annual Festival of Homiletics features “best preaching” from pastors across the church. Check out information for the next event on the Good Preacher website (external link).
• A rich well of resources including preaching helps can be found online at the Congregational Resource Guide (external link) including the web resource, “Preaching Today: Sorting It Out (external link)”
• SundaysandSeasons.com (external link) now includes a preaching module with reference tools and a flexible platform for writing sermons
• Series of videos on particular texts: “Preaching from the Periscopes” available for loan from the Resource Center
• Series of videos on the art and practice of preaching called “Great Preachers” available for loan from the Resource Center
• Books of children’s sermons
• Sundays and Seasons follows the church year and the three-year Revised Common Lectionary to help worship planners, preachers, lay leaders, and others as they prepare for weekly worship—available for loan
• Sermons and presentations including sermons from the annual Festival of Homiletics are available on CD – for loan from the Resource Center
• Copies of lectionary preaching aid, New Proclamation, are available for loan from the Resource Center

The preceding resources are highlighted and recommended for your consideration. If you have questions or would like to reserve a resource, contact Julie Aageson at 701-232-3381 or julie.aageson@ecunet.org

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Eastern North Dakota Synod - ELCA: Open for Exploration: Resources for Preaching

Because the Book of Revelation often has been thought to include dramatic interpretations of end times, now may be a good time to read, study, and teach this biblical book. The resources described below are meant to be helpful tools for addressing apocalyptic themes and texts – moving beyond “end times” anxiety and fear to the promise and hope that is the central theme of Revelation.

Featured Resources:

• New Proclamation Commentary for Easter C
• “No One is Left Behind” by Barbara Rossing in Lutheran Woman Today, December, 1999
• “The Trials of the Tribulation” by Michael Joseph Gross
• “On the Verge of the Millennium: A History of the Interpretation of Revelation” (Spring, 1995)
• “The Distant Triumph Song: Music and the Book of Revelation” (Summer, 1992) by Craig Koester
• Breaking the Code: Understanding the Book of Revelation video and study guide by Bruce Metzger (VT 1628)
• Millennial Madness (VT 1995)
• Millennial Hope (video)
• Unmasking the End Times (Bible Study)
• Put it to the Test: Making Sense of Today’s Religious Movements-Volume 1
• Believe it or Not: Making Sense of Today’s Religious Movements-Volume 2
• Pablo Richard’s Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation (B1905)
• Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination by Eugene Peterson (B1869)
• Joy in our Weakness-A Gift of Hope from the Book of Revelation by Marva Dawn (B1750
• When Time Shall Be No More (B1906) by Paul Boyer
• Paul’s Apocalyptic Gospel-the Coming Triumph of God by J. Christiaan Beker (B1388)
• Crisis and Catharsis: the Power of the Apocalypse by Adela Yarbro Collins
• Revelation: God and Satan in the Apocalypse by James Kallas (B1867)
• “Revelation: A Book of Song” by Pastor Deanna Wildermuth
• Kerygma’s “The Book of Revelation: Visions for the Church in Crisis”
• “Revelation: Images of Hope” by Richard Jeske
• “Volume 4-Books of the Bible -Galatians to Revelation.”
• Augsburg Commentary on Revelation by Gerhard Krodel (B1871)
• Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza’s Revelation: Vision of a Just World (B1872)
• George Caird’s Commentary on the Revelation of St. John the Divine
• New Proclamation Year C, 2001 edited by Marshall D. Johnson
• Interpretation: Revelation by M. Eugene Boring

The preceding resources are highlighted and recommended for your consideration. If you have questions or would like to reserve a resource, contact Julie Aageson at 701-232-3381 or julie.aageson@ecunet.org

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Eastern North Dakota Synod - ELCA: End Times, The Book of Revelations, and “Left Behind”