Commentary on Jeremiah 31:7-14
It is quite peculiar that a text from Jeremiah disrupts [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 63:7-9
Unfortunately the long standing tradition of celebrating Advent and Christmas is becoming replaced by the [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 62:6-12
Last night’s Old Testament lesson came from First Isaiah (chapters 1-39) that covers roughly the [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 9:2-7
The appointed Old Testament lesson for Christmas Eve is always these poetic verses from Isaiah [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 7:10-16
Here is the promise: God is with us, so that we might live. God is [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 35:1-10
“They will rejoice.” This is the first word of Isaiah’s vision in chapter 35, and [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 11:1-10
Isaiah preaches hope in a time of terror and justice in a time of oppression. [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 2:1-5
Isaiah’s vision begins with “the mountain of the Lord’s house” (2:2). We’ve already seen this [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 23:1-6
Words one does not want to hear from God: “You have not attended to them. [...]
Commentary on Malachi 4:1-2a
Treacherous days, treacherous texts. Treacherous days because the end is coming, as the texts insist. [...]