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Psalm 26 is a sturdy prayer that can be prayed by any individual at any time. The morally upright citizen can echo the psalm’s claims of integrity with confidence. The hopelessly accused sinner can voice (...)

We love because…. Perhaps the first thing to keep in mind when preparing to preach on Romans 12:9-21 is a word from 1 John: “We love because he first loved us” (4:19). While Paul is (...)

Who Sees the Burning Bush? The burning bush scene in this chapter of Exodus is surely among the top ten best known biblical stories. It has been immortalized in countless ways in culture. An entire (...)

These first verses of Exodus use concise prose to set a tragic scene of oppression. The systematic mistreatment of the Hebrews by Pharaoh escalates from enslavement (1:11, 13) to ethnic cleansing as Pharaoh commands that (...)

Living the Questions Questions have a way of marking important moments and events. So it is with today’s lesson. Matthew’s story has from the beginning drawn us in with the good news announcement of salvation (...)

Like many other selections from the lectionary, Isaiah 55:1-5 is a small unit that, while relatively self-contained, has connections both to what precedes and what follows (preachers beware!). Chapter 55 as a whole is the (...)

Today’s Old Testament lesson is the famous text where Solomon asks God for wisdom. Somewhat oddly, the lection begins and ends in mid-paragraph (according to NRSV and NIV), and it might be better to include (...)

The appointed psalm for this week is a small section of Psalm 119, which is the longest psalm in the Psalter. The theological theme is the Word of God–pay attention to the synonyms for Scripture: (...)

“Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?” John’s disciples ask Jesus at the beginning of chapter 11. John, who so clearly recognized who Jesus was when he (...)

For me at least, this is one of those biblical texts that cannot be read without hearing music. In the midst of puzzling over the visions and sayings of Zechariah, it comes as a refreshing (...)