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Augsburg Fortress is the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America<\/em><\/h5>\n
Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources from Augsburg Fortress Publishers that support worship leaders, worship planners, musicians, and all who care about the worship of the church. ELCA Worship also features resources from other partners in a <\/em>monthly blog post.<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
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Sundays and Seasons Year B 2027<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sundays and Seasons is your indispensable companion for planning worship with comprehensive content and ideas for liturgy, music, preaching, and visuals. A diverse group of more than 70 contributors from across the church has provided an expansive resource of daily and seasonal helps. Use Sundays and Seasons print edition together with sundaysandseasons.com for effective and efficient planning, preparation, and production of all your worship needs. Year B 2027 available now!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sundays and Seasons: Guide to Worship Planning, Year B 2027<\/a><\/p>\n

Sundays and Seasons supports comprehensive week-by-week worship planning with content and ideas for liturgy, music, preaching, and visuals. Shaped by the Revised Common Lectionary, the church year, and the assembly gathered around word and sacrament, it offers clarity, inspiration, and aid for worship planners. Worship planners and leaders, preachers, presiding ministers, worship committees, musicians, visual artists, sacristans and altar guilds, and those who create congregational worship folders will find an indispensable companion in Sundays and Seasons as they prepare for worship each week.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sundays and Seasons: Preaching<\/a><\/p>\n

Sundays and Seasons: Preaching is an annual resource in the Sundays and Seasons family that considers the sermon in the context of the day and seasons of the church year. This resource features new commentary and ideas for proclamation of word and sacrament contributed by a diverse group of contributors from across the church. This resource encourages and provides helps for lectionary preaching, taking into account all the readings for the day, in addition to the rest of the worship service and the day itself in the lectionary year, provides interpretation and helps, giving many points of connection for a diversity of worshipers and spiritual needs, and situates preaching within the larger task of worship planning.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Worship Planning Calendar: Sundays and Seasons, Year B 2027<\/a><\/p>\n

Worship Planning Calendar serves as a planning guide, workbook, appointment calendar, and guide to daily prayer and is an important part of the Sundays and Seasons worship planning suite. Each weekly spread presents Monday through Saturday on the left-hand side and Sunday on the right-hand side, allowing space for notes about the music, liturgy, intercessions, and sermon. Includes prayer of the day, gospel acclamation, psalm refrain, preface, seasonal colors, principal festivals, lesser festivals, commemorations, observances, occasions, and more! 5\u215c” x 8\u215c” spiral bound.<\/p>\n

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Sundays and Seasons Print Subscription<\/a><\/p>\n

Feeling too busy to remember to order your new Sundays and Seasons every year? Sign up for the Sundays and Seasons Print Subscription! You will receive each subsequent release of the Sundays and Seasons resources you have selected when the next volume is released. Your subscription begins with the next annual edition released in the spring.<\/p>\n

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Augsburg Fortress Music Clinics – 70th Anniversary Celebration!<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Locations
\n<\/strong>Columbia, S.C. \u2014 July 24-25
\nTwin Cities, Minn. \u2014 July 27-28
\nColumbus, Ohio \u2014 August 3-4
\nPhiladelphia, Pa. \u2014 August 6-7
\nChicago, Ill. \u2014 August 10-11<\/p>\n

More information about the event and registration for a FREE music clinic near you is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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