Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on Acts 2:1-21

One could preach many sermons on this marvelous text making a whole variety of points. [...]

Commentary on Acts 1:15-17, 21-26

We begin our examination of this Sunday’s text by looking [...]

Commentary on John 17:6-19

The genre of this passage will have a direct bearing on the preacher’s choice of [...]

Commentary on 1 John 5:9-13

In looking at the first letter of John for these weeks of Eastertide, we have [...]

Commentary on Psalm 1

How fascinating: the book of Psalms, the prayer book of the Bible, the hymnal of ancient Israel, [...]

Commentary on Psalm 98

“Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre … and the sound of melody! With trumpets … [...]

Commentary on John 15:9-17

One way the Easter season can be described is “trekking through John’s Gospel!” The preacher’s [...]

Commentary on 1 John 5:1-6

In his splendid study of the Epistles of John, David Rensberger points out that with [...]

Commentary on Acts 10:44-48

How can we ever forget the celebration in Chicago’s Grant Park the evening that Barack [...]

Commentary on Acts 8:26-40

The post-Easter texts assigned for this year contain several readings from the Book of Acts. [...]