Commentary on Exodus 19:1-6, 20:1-17
My teacher James Arne Nestingen once said, “Every preacher should [...]

My teacher James Arne Nestingen once said, “Every preacher should [...]

The story of the manna from heaven in Exodus 16 indeed can be described as [...]

With this reading the narrative lectionary takes us out of [...]

It’s a pretty radical idea — God descending into human [...]

As we move from Easter to Pentecost, this is a [...]

Likely if you have read critical commentaries on this passage before reading this essay, you [...]

In Jesus’ first sermon, according to Luke, he reads from Isaiah announcing that he has [...]

There is no story in Acts more important than Saul/Paul’s call, his encounter with the [...]

Maybe you have had this experience: one of your friends comes back from seeing a [...]

Christ is risen, and Mary is weeping: John’s account of the disciples’ discovery of the [...]