Commentary on John 15:9-17
One way the Easter season can be described is “trekking through John’s Gospel!” The preacher’s [...]
Revised Common Lectionary
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. [...]
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 [...]