Commentary on Mark 10:17-31
The first thing to say about this text, and hopefully not the last thing to [...]
Gospel
Commentary on Mark 10:2-16
Beware this week.1 As soon as you read the word “divorce” aloud, a whole sermon [...]
Commentary on Mark 9:38-50
This story comes as Jesus heads toward Jerusalem.1 Throughout Mark 8–10, Jesus struggles to turn [...]
Commentary on Mark 9:30-37
What if we welcomed children in Jesus’ name? On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice, a [...]
Commentary on Mark 8:27-38
Mark reintroduces the theme of discipleship by first interrogating Jesus’ identity. As is common in [...]
Commentary on Mark 7:24-37
Today’s Gospel reading is a tale of two healings (Mark 7:24–30 and 7:31–37). Jesus is [...]
Commentary on Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
This isn’t quite what we want to hear at the [...]
Commentary on John 6:56-69
John 6:56–69 presents a controversy arising from Jesus’ claim to be the bread of life. [...]
Commentary on John 6:51-58
In this section of the Bread of Life discourse, Jesus introduces a profound concept: “flesh” [...]
Commentary on John 6:35, 41-51
This is a pivotal part of the later section of [...]