Commentary on Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
The selection of Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 as a lectionary passage [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Jeremiah 33:14-16
Advent is a season for feeling out of kilter. It [...]
Commentary on Malachi 3:1-4
Who can endure the day of his coming? The prophet Malachi raises a disturbing question [...]
Commentary on Zephaniah 3:14-20
What would happen if God interrupted us? What if God [...]
Commentary on Micah 5:2-5a
The prophet Micah was active during a tumultuous period in Israel’s history. According to the [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 9:2-7
The propensity of too many preachers is to take a hop, skip, and jump over [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 62:6-12
At first glance this seems a strange text for this high celebration of the church [...]
Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Christmas has come to be widely associated with gift-giving. For [...]
Commentary on Exodus 34:29-35
After the deliverance from Egypt and the establishing of the covenant at Mount Sinai, God [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 1:4-10
Jeremiah’s first-person poetic account of God’s calling him as a prophet echoes in brief, elliptical [...]
