Commentary on Romans 6:12-23
Imagine that you quit a job, and then you keep going back to work there. [...]
Second Reading
Commentary on Romans 6:1b-11
A typical cheap shot against those who drink from the cup of Luther’s Reformation is [...]
Commentary on Romans 5:1-8
“Peace sells, but who’s buying?” asked Dave Mustaine, the heavy metal minor prophet and leader [...]
Commentary on Romans 4:13-25
Romans 4 is a short but dense essay concerned especially with Abraham and Abraham’s God. [...]
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 13:11-13
First-century writers were not thinking in terms that would occupy [...]
Commentary on Ephesians 1:15-23
The earlier preaching studies for this passage gathered here in [...]
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
The more I read the letters to the Corinthians, the [...]
Commentary on 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11
In 1 Peter 4-5, the apostle continues to care for [...]
Commentary on 1 Peter 3:13-22
The contemporary church can often be quick to apologize on behalf of the gospel but [...]
Commentary on 1 Peter 2:2-10
When 1 Peter turns from its extended introduction (1:3-12) to the body of the letter, [...]