Commentary on Luke 6:17-26
The Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6:20–49 closes the section of this gospel that [...]
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Commentary on Luke 5:1-11
In 2006, pastor and professor Marvin McMickle examined the sad state and the lamentable landscape [...]
Commentary on Luke 4:21-30
In her national bestseller book, The American Age of Unreason, the Updated Edition, Susan Jacoby [...]
Commentary on Luke 4:14-21
“God’s time [Emancipation] is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He [...]
Commentary on John 2:1-11
At the end of John 1, Jesus promised Nathanael (and by extension his other disciples [...]
Commentary on Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
“He will be called son of God” (klēthēsetai, huios theou, [...]
Commentary on Matthew 2:1-12
For Epiphany the lectionary offers us a tale of two kings: the holy child Jesus [...]
Commentary on John 1:[1-9], 10-18
There is no infancy narrative, no temptation in the wilderness, [...]
Commentary on Luke 2:[1-7] 8-20
For Christmas Day, the lectionary turns to the second half [...]
Commentary on Luke 2:41-52
The lectionary ends this calendar year with the first words of Jesus, but before that [...]