Hint: click that ⭐ in the upper right-hand corner to save this dashboard to your favorites.
So, preaching isn’t your main gig. Maybe you do it, maybe you don’t, but you also do a lot of writing papers and articles, reading and researching, and other scripture-related work. But you still want to save your work related to its relevant scriptures so you can find it later. And, you still have sh*t to do.
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Deleting blocks from this page will not delete the databases they reference — but if you’re worried, just duplicate this page before you start editing. That way, the original will still be there if you need to start over.
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Below are all of your “projects” where the date is in the future. You can filter it however you want — click those blue horizontal lines, click the “type of work” dropdown, and uncheck what you don’t want. Also, if you want multiple windows into this database filtered differently (a la the “preacher” dashboards), just duplicate it and then tweak your filters accordingly.
But let’s be honest: if your studies and your preaching are totally out of conversation with the RCL — you don’t use RCL resources, you don’t check in on where the RCL is, you don’t expect to preach on RCL in the future — then the pericopes database as I’ve entered it isn’t of much use to you. Yes, you could add your own pericopes if you want, and maybe you will (see below). But you also might decide it’s simpler and more useful to just use the “chapters of the Bible” database to catalog your resources. Yes, you’ll end up with resources in there that speak to, say, the passage at the beginning of the chapter when you’re working on the end, but it’ll get you pretty close to what you need. Since I designed this resource primarily with lectionary preachers in mind, I don’t have the “chapters” relationship already setup. You’ll have to put it in. It’s really easy, though.
On the other hand, if you decide you still want to use “pericopes” and just add the ones you need, you can do that, too.