First Reading

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Commentary on Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

The Revised Common Lectionary has selected two handfuls of verses [...]

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Commentary on Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18

The verses included in this pericope center around the Day [...]

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Commentary on Revelation 7:9-17

Sandwiched between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals, [...]

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Commentary on Amos 5:18-24

A brilliant ironist, Amos reverses his audience’s expectations at every turn in the book that [...]

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Commentary on Micah 3:5-12

What would our lives be like without the prophetic word?¹ A life without vision: no [...]

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Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

On this Reformation Sunday, we hear words of promise from [...]

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Commentary on Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18

The Lord’s holiness Leviticus 19 appears in the section of [...]

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Commentary on Isaiah 45:1-7

This passage forms a climactic part of the second half of Isaiah (Isaiah 40-66). While [...]

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Commentary on Isaiah 25:1-9

This chapter juts out of the bleak landscape of judgment and destruction depicted in the [...]

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Commentary on Isaiah 5:1-7

Isaiah tells of a beloved vineyard, lovingly tended yet gone horribly wrong. Even with devoted [...]