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Jesus messes things up. He disrupts people’s perspectives of who they are and who they can be. And this is not always welcome news. It is not euangellion (“good news”) to everyone. For some, this (...)

Things move quickly in the opening chapters of Mark’s account of Jesus. By the end of the first chapter, he’s gone from being just one of the crowd who had come out for John’s baptism, (...)

As I write this, the gap between God’s promises and reality as we experience it that I spoke about in reference to Zechariah’s song two weeks ago seems especially pronounced. In addition to the rampant (...)

Isaiah 40:1-11 is one of the most important texts in all of Isaiah. The narrative immediately preceding it (Isaiah 39:1-8) features King Hezekiah, who hosts an envoy from the faraway country of Babylon. This narrative, (...)

This short passage is complex in that it mixes several genres, or, better, progresses through several genres. Due to his popularity, he climbs into Simon’s boat to teach those on the shore. The story then (...)

Zephaniah threatens that God will annihilate all living things due to human wickedness. His words evoke the ancient Flood in the days of Noah: “I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the (...)

John’s apocalyptic visions in Revelation 7:9-17 present challenges in two different ways. The first challenge has to do with inclusivity/exclusivity. The second has to do with the social setting of the Apocalypse and how that (...)

1515The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and God’s ears are open to their cry. 16The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to erase the remembrance of them from (...)

Extending last Sunday’s focus on Christ the bread of life, here again is exhortation to serve the one true God of liberation, to have life by eating and drinking Christ’s body and blood. When the (...)

Most of Ephesians is found in the Revised Common Lectionary except for, chiefly, 5:21-6:9 (the Household Codes) and 5:3-6 which describes even more specifically than today’s epistle disobedient behaviors — equating, for example, fornication and (...)