Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on Psalm 46

“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”–the hymn, which according to Ulrich Leupold, “more than any other epitomizes [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

The book of Jeremiah is dominated by doom and gloom, [...]

Commentary on John 8:31-36

These verses promise good news to those who desire to be Jesus’ disciples: He and [...]

Commentary on Psalm 126

The psalm selected for the Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost, for those traditions and congregations that do [...]

Commentary on Job 42:1-6, 10-17

In some ways I kind of hate the ending of [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:46-52

Bartimaeus is the paragon of faith in Mark’s Gospel, which makes it more than mildly [...]

Commentary on Hebrews 7:23-28

How can this text from Hebrews, an obscure writing in thought and language, compete with [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 31:7-9

This lection is quite short, a snippet from within a larger literary context. Such snippets, [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:35-45

This passage plays a key role in the Gospel according to Mark’s understanding of why [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 53:4-12

The central movement of the Suffering Servant poem in Isaiah 53:4-12 is from humiliation to [...]