Alternate First Reading

Commentary on Judges 4:1-7

Commentary on this text is forthcoming.

Commentary on Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Commentary for this text is forthcoming.

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Commentary on Joshua 3:7-17

Joshua 3 highlights the leadership transition from Moses, the peerless mediator of Exodus and Deuteronomy, [...]

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Commentary on Deuteronomy 34:1-12

The book of Deuteronomy is a collection of the longest [...]

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Commentary on Exodus 33:12-23

This passage is part of an arc that begins in the previous chapter with the [...]

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Commentary on Exodus 32:1-14

The golden calf episode in Exodus 321 is a disturbing tale that expresses the self-critical genius [...]

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Commentary on Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

The Ten Commandments present God’s gracious intentions for a divinely [...]

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Commentary on Exodus 12:1-14

Of the many hundreds—possibly thousands—of sermons I have heard preached in my life, I cannot [...]

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Commentary on Exodus 14:19-31

The story of God’s deliverance of the Hebrew people from Pharaoh’s army at the Red [...]

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Commentary on Exodus 16:2-15

During World War II, researchers at the University of Minnesota recruited 36 conscientious objectors, all [...]