Reader Recommendation: Dreaming God’s Dream (2025 Stewardship Theme Materials)
Recommended by: Melissa St. Clair
Why it might be helpful: Contributors include four Disciples of Christ scholars and preachers: Rev. Dr. Lance B. Pape, Rev. Vinnetta Golphin-Wilkerson, Rev. Dr. Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, and Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade. In addition to their commentary on each text, this resource is a comprehensive guide to approaching generosity and stewardship in worship, education, and administration.

Dreaming God’s Dream is the 2025 Disciples stewardship theme resource — a comprehensive guide to preaching and teaching about generosity across an entire season of congregational life. What makes it distinctive is its contributors: four Disciples scholars and preachers who bring both theological depth and practical ministry experience to each text. Their commentary goes beyond stewardship as a campaign or a budget need, grounding giving in the larger biblical vision of what God is doing in and through the church.

The resource covers worship, education, and administration — making it useful not just for the preacher but for the whole ministry team preparing for a stewardship emphasis. For preachers who want to approach generosity not as an awkward topic but as a genuine expression of faithful discipleship, this resource provides both the theological framework and the practical tools to do so.

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• Within Us Among Us — A six-week preaching series with scriptural reflection and liturgy in English, Spanish, and Korean.
• Beyond — A six-week Disciples congregational series with sermon starters, liturgy, poetry, and visual art.
• Preaching God’s Grand Drama — Ahmi Lee’s theodramatic approach to biblical preaching, a Preacher Book Club selection.

Reader Recommendations are submitted by Disciples preachers and are not created or fully reviewed by the Proclamation Project.