Alternate First Reading

Amos 7:7-9 describes the third in a series of four visions. After the first and [...]

The text for this week is populated by an unusual number of characters, the effect [...]

Two prophets journey together to the Jordan: the hard-bitten spiritual [...]

The account of Elijah’s flight to Horeb follows on the [...]

On Pentecost Sunday, the Church celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the early [...]

This is a message important enough to shout, to sound the trumpet/ram’s horn in accompaniment. [...]

Growing up in a rural, black Baptist Church, one of the songs I heard often [...]

I hope some preachers will choose this text to preach, and then will read the [...]

Last week’s commentary on Ruth 1:1–18 outlined the centrality of [...]