Second Reading

In exploring our lectionary text, it is helpful to review briefly the argument Paul has [...]

In looking at the first letter of John for these weeks of Eastertide, we have [...]

In his splendid study of the Epistles of John, David Rensberger points out that with [...]

Years ago I heard William Sloane Coffin preach on this text. He summed up its [...]

This epistle, really a sermon, was written for a community that defined itself over and [...]

For the six Sundays of Eastertide, the lectionary gives us the opportunity to examine some [...]

Ask a non–Christian–even ask some Christians–what the point of Christian [...]

Today’s Gospel lection again competes for the preacher’s attention with [...]

Today’s text from 1 Thessalonians is the fourth lection in [...]