Commentary on Malachi 3:1-4
Familiar to many from its use in Handel’s Messiah, this passage from Malachi speaks of [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Jeremiah 33:14-16
On this first Sunday of Advent, one cannot read the [...]
Commentary on Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
It would be easy to preach our lectionary text for [...]
Commentary on Daniel 12:1-3
Our lectionary text for today considers a question that these days may be all too [...]
Commentary on 1 Kings 17:8-16
Sometimes God’s provision comes in the most unlikely of places and by means of the [...]
Commentary on Exodus 12:1-4 [5-10] 11-14
The church should reclaim the Passover. We tend to relegate [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a
When we preachers engage the Suffering Servant passages we enter territory that is both evocative [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
In the first chapter of this book six verbs define [...]
Commentary on Numbers 21:4-9
“You have lacked nothing!” (Deuteronomy 2:7). Surely this is a late pious endeavor to cover [...]
Commentary on Exodus 20:1-17
Biblical law remains on the front pages, both in church and society. One thinks of [...]