Gospel

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Commentary on John 1:1-14

The first three words of John 1:1 can be literally translated “In a beginning” and [...]

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Commentary on Luke 2:1-14 [15-20]

In the book Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge [...]

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Commentary on Luke 1:39-45 [46-55]

Many will remember Roots, Alex Haley’s 1976 phenomenal book that [...]

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Commentary on Luke 3:7-18

Good news can take different forms. John the Baptizer’s message is an example. More than [...]

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Commentary on Luke 3:1-6

On the second Sunday of Advent, John the Baptizer gets a little limelight. By this point in [...]

Nikolai Ge,
Commentary on John 18:33-37

Who is truly powerful? Who reigns?1 John’s trial narrative raises these questions in compelling ways. [...]

Hannah Praying
Commentary on Mark 13:1-8

When Jesus is no longer physically present, what does it mean to follow him? Has [...]

The Poor Widow's Offering, Frederick Goodall, before 1904
Commentary on Mark 12:38-44

Sacrificial giving is, according to ChatGPT, the most popular main point of sermons on Mark [...]

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Commentary on Mark 12:28-34

One of the many reasons to love the Gospel of Mark is that it is [...]

Raising of Lazarus by Peter Paul Morandell on the facade of the cemetery chapel in Rum, Tyrol (1956)
Commentary on John 11:32-44

Our passage this week forms the climax of a lengthy narrative in John 11. In [...]