Commentary on Hebrews 9:11-14
First of all, read Hebrews 9:1-10 for yourself and include these verses as part of [...]
Revised Common Lectionary
Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Chapter 6 begins a new unit in Deuteronomy that runs [...]
Commentary on Ruth 1:1-18
Ruth is a story of biblical proportions including everything from famine, widows, gleaning in the [...]
Commentary on Romans 3:19-28
I’ve been having trouble breathing, and today my ear-nose-and-throat specialist told me I need surgery [...]
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 [...]