Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on Exodus 12:1-4 [5-10] 11-14

The church should reclaim the Passover. We tend to relegate [...]

Commentary on Mark 14:1—15:47

Mark is the shortest of the canonical gospels. His story [...]

Commentary on Philippians 2:5-11

Philippians 2:5-11 is one of the New Testament’s truly majestic [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a

When we preachers engage the Suffering Servant passages we enter territory that is both evocative [...]

Commentary on Psalm 31:9-16

The Psalms enrich preaching during Holy Week and Easter, even if few preachers base an [...]

Commentary on Hebrews 5:5-10

While Hebrews will be read three times during Holy Week, and then for several weeks [...]

Commentary on John 12:20-33

Matters of life and death have a way of focusing one’s attention. It has not [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

In the first chapter of this book six verbs define [...]

Commentary on Psalm 51:1-12

A single voice speaks to us in this text. Its words ring of agony, pain, [...]

Commentary on Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22

Psalm 107:1 will always have a very special place in [...]