Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on Luke 20:27-38

This passage, quite frankly, most likely will sound odd, archaic, and even irrelevant to most [...]

Commentary on John 8:31-36

You know the advice concerning festival preaching as well as I do: preach the texts, [...]

Comentario del San Juan 8:31-36

Hay por lo menos dos clases de libertad. La primera [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

The end of the church year brings several special occasions [...]

Commentary on Psalm 46

“Ein feste burg ist unser Gott…” is the original, German phrase that opens Martin Luther’s famous hymn. [...]

Commentary on Romans 3:19-28

Anyone commenting or preaching on these well-known verses better hesitate. For preachers, at least in [...]

Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12

A Matter of Timing What circumstances have occasioned this apparent [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 1:10-18

Reform School – for Everyone When I was in junior high school, I remember hearing [...]

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Commentary on Psalm 32:1-7

Although Psalm 321 is one of seven identified by the early church as penitential psalms [...]

Commentary on Luke 19:1-10

How you read and preach this familiar story about Jesus and Zacchaeus hinges almost entirely [...]