Commentary on Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
The Revised Common Lectionary has selected two handfuls of verses [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18
The verses included in this pericope center around the Day [...]
Commentary on Revelation 7:9-17
Sandwiched between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals, [...]
Commentary on Amos 5:18-24
A brilliant ironist, Amos reverses his audience’s expectations at every turn in the book that [...]
Commentary on Micah 3:5-12
What would our lives be like without the prophetic word?¹ A life without vision: no [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
On this Reformation Sunday, we hear words of promise from [...]
Commentary on Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
The Lord’s holiness Leviticus 19 appears in the section of [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 45:1-7
This passage forms a climactic part of the second half of Isaiah (Isaiah 40-66). While [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 25:1-9
This chapter juts out of the bleak landscape of judgment and destruction depicted in the [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 5:1-7
Isaiah tells of a beloved vineyard, lovingly tended yet gone horribly wrong. Even with devoted [...]
