Commentary on Romans 8:26-39
This reading includes some of the most familiar and comforting words we have from the [...]
Second Reading
Commentary on Romans 7:15-25a
Romans 7 has played a crucial role in Christian anthropology.1 Whether one derives from this [...]
Commentary on Romans 8:1-11
Until this point in Romans, Paul has taken his hearers through the “shadowlands” of the [...]
Commentary on Romans 6:1b-11
The letter to Romans is a Pauline manual for Christians who wrestle with the human [...]
Commentary on Romans 6:12-23
This reading is a continuation of Romans 6:1-11, where we discussed theological themes of sin [...]
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
In 2 Corinthians 5:13 Paul admits to madness: exestemen. This [...]
Commentary on 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
The twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost marks the last Sunday in [...]
Commentary on Revelation 21:1-6a
Any sermon on today’s lectionary passage ought to be prefaced [...]
Commentary on Ephesians 1:11-23
The final phrases of a Jewish-styled opening berakah prayer of [...]
Commentary on 1 John 3:1-3
The “lectionary gnomes” have done the preacher no favor in isolating this passage from its [...]
