Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on 1 John 4:7-21

Years ago I heard William Sloane Coffin preach on this text. He summed up its [...]

Commentary on Psalm 22:25-31

How odd is it, during Easter, to return to the Psalm of Good Friday, the [...]

Commentary on John 15:1-8

John’s Gospel for this Sunday moves into an agrarian mode by focusing on vines and [...]

Commentary on Psalm 23

The 23rd Psalm is a perennial favorite. And yet for all its familiarity, there may be some [...]

Commentary on Acts 4:5-12

How quickly things can change, and how differently people can interpret the same event! Last [...]

Commentary on John 10:11-18

In a Gospel text that uses pastoral images of sheep and shepherd, the contemporary preacher [...]

Commentary on 1 John 3:16-24

This epistle, really a sermon, was written for a community that defined itself over and [...]

Commentary on Psalm 4

Psalm 4 is good for what ails you. People are troubled about many things, but God ‘puts [...]

Commentary on Luke 24:36b-48

When viewed within the confines of Luke 24, this text presents the third of three [...]

Commentary on 1 John 3:1-7

For the six Sundays of Eastertide, the lectionary gives us the opportunity to examine some [...]