Narrative Lectionary

Commentary on Acts 8:26-39

Have you ever found yourself at a strange point in life and wondered how you [...]

Commentary on Luke 2:8-20

One of the difficulties of preaching on Luke’s version of the nativity of Christ is [...]

Commentary on Luke 2:1-14 [15-20]

Christmas is the season when Christians remember the birth of [...]

Commentary on Luke 1:26-45 [46-56]

The announcement of new births is usually exciting in most [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 61:1-11

The passage seems to contain multiple voices: a preacher and healer, an administrator, and YHWH.1 [...]

Commentary on Joel 2:12-13, 28-29

There are two patches in Joel’s prophetic quilt.1 Scholars do [...]

Commentary on Daniel 6:6-27

The beginning of the advent season takes us to Daniel 6. In the midst of [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; then 31:31-34

This week we enter one [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 6:1-8

In the World War II movie Fury, Shia LaBeouf’s character, appropriately nicknamed as “Bible,” because [...]

Commentary on Jonah 1:1-17; 3:1-10; [4:1-11]

God calls a man named Jonah. The man disobeys and [...]