Second Reading

Commentary on Romans 1:1-7

This is a surprising choice for the Fourth Sunday in Advent. Juxtaposed to the readings [...]

Commentary on James 5:7-10

Many scriptural texts can be read in isolation of their context and still provide some [...]

Commentary on Romans 15:4-13

The vision of the coming Kingdom is broad, wide, deep, and generous. On this Second [...]

Commentary on Romans 13:11-14

The readings for the first and second Sundays in Advent are taken from the later [...]

Commentary on Colossians 1:11-20

This lection reframes Christian experience within a wide-angle, cosmic divine [...]

Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

The epistle for this last proper of the church year [...]

Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

Last Sunday’s reading opened on a note of “thanksgiving” (1:2). [...]

Commentary on Romans 3:19-28

Anyone commenting or preaching on these well-known verses better hesitate. For preachers, at least in [...]

Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12

A Matter of Timing What circumstances have occasioned this apparent [...]

Commentary on 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

What we have here recorded is Paul’s own farewell discourse. [...]