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Las Escrituras relatan un proceder continuo por parte de sus grandes líderes: la tradición de ofrecer un testamento verbal antes de morir. Personajes como Moisés, Josué, David y Samuel expresaron previo a su muerte sus (...)

Note:  Part I explores the biblical text and Part II discusses homiletical strategies for the text. Part I The Book of Hebrews is actually considered by many scholars to be a sermon! Its language demonstrates (...)

Lo más interesante de este pasaje es que ocurre al principio del Evangelio Según San Juan en vez de hacia el final como en Los Evangelios Sinópticos (Mateo, Marcos y Lucas). No hay duda que (...)

A name is a powerful thing. A name identifies, describes, and presents us. One’s name may be the most intimate feature of one’s identity — of all identifiers, our names come the closest to naming (...)

Psalm 25 is the reading for the first Sunday in Lent, the season in which Christians prepare themselves for the passion of Jesus. Jesus, this preacher, prophet, sage, and teacher, begins a journey to Jerusalem (...)

About ten years ago I became interested in the spiritual discipline of writing icons, a practice that has less to do with the applied skills of painting than with an ability to reflect prayerfully on (...)

The sheer brevity of Mark’s story seems to offer little material for the preacher. Indeed, as we move through the year of Mark, John’s gospel is called on consistently and often to fill out the (...)

The few occasions that Joel appears in the lectionary it seems to support material that frames the interests of Christian festivals. Used in the Pentecost lection because of its citation in Acts 2 and at (...)

Transfiguration is one of those “non-holidays” that appears in lectionaries with its own particular set of readings, but doesn’t draw much attention from local congregations. The Transfiguration has many of the elements of the story (...)

In this short and apparently simple story Jesus is approached by a leper whom he heals. Jesus sends the leper back to receive the certification of the priest as to his being made clean and (...)