First Reading

Throughout Christian history, Pentecost has been described as the birth of the Christian church. In [...]

Amid all the joy and promise of Jesus’ resurrection and [...]

While other New Testament writings briefly refer to Jesus’ ascension (Ephesians 4:8‒10; Philippians 2:9‒11; 1 [...]

Last week’s text culminates with the Ethiopian eunuch’s exclamatory query to Philip the evangelist, “Look, [...]

The three preceding lectionary texts from Acts have focused on the extraordinary effects of the [...]

As is common, the lectionary sections off (shorter) passages from within their larger narrative context. [...]

Peter’s speech in Acts 3:12–19 interprets the dramatic events that have just occurred; to understand [...]

For a long time, Americans called the Sunday after Easter “Low Sunday”—a reference to how, [...]

Every preacher knows that Easter Sunday can be at once the most wonderful and the [...]