Featured Site: Pericope

Pericope is usually the first site I go to when I begin preparing for a Sunday service. Here's how the home page describes the site: "Pericope.org is a resource for pastors to use to assist in developing their sermons and bulletins for each Sunday based on the one- or three-year lectionary in Lutheran Worship." It also has notes for each Sunday which are keyed to Lutheran Service Book.

It offers "Service Notes Postings" for every day in the Church Year. These give an overview of the day, a summary of the propers for the day, and short summaries of each of the readings for both the 1-year and 3-year lectionaries. In addition, the readings are linked to BibleGateway.com and Logos Bible Software.

There are other helpful links offered, including the following:

• a reading schedule for the Book of Concord with daily readings formatted for inclusion as a bulletin insert
• an archive of sermons by LCMS pastors
• a year-at-a-glance Church Year calendar with readings linked to BibleGateway.com
• Buls' Notes (exegetical notes written by Dr. Harold Buls, late professor of Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne IN)