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Pascua es la temporada más alegre en el calendario de la iglesia. Las iglesias se adornan maravillosamente con flores y los servicios de adoración rebosan de alabanza, gratitud y música muy animada. En medio del (...)

The lectionary text for this week provides a compelling commendation to Christians to do what is right even if it brings suffering. Part of the power of this text is its Christological grounding — it (...)

Many of us can only hear the first line of the Psalm in the King James Version (KJV): “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.1 Many of us can only hear the first (...)

Psalm 31, along with Psalms 22 and 69, is among the longest and most impressive of the genre known variously as lament, complaint, protest, and/or prayer for help.1 Not coincidentally, these three psalms figure prominently (...)

This psalmist is a refugee. In fact, the Psalter is “refugee literature,” in a very real sense. It’s written by refugees, for refugees.1 The Psalms give voice to those who yearn for a place of (...)

Stephen is recognized in the church as the first or “proto-martyr.” Before considering details in the lectionary text for the day, Acts 7:55-60, we would do well to ask: Why was Stephen martyred? For the (...)

Psalm 31, along with Psalms 22 and 69, is among the longest and most impressive of the genre known variously as lament, complaint, protest, and/or prayer for help. Not coincidentally, these three psalms figure prominently (...)

The Pentecost lectionary account takes place in Jerusalem on the feast day of Shavuot, 50 days after Passover in the Jewish calendar. This story follows Luke’s retelling of the ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:1–12; see (...)

Psalm 66 is a hymn of thanksgiving in which the voices of the community of faith (verses 1–12) mingle with the voice of an individual psalm singer (verses 13–20). Verses 1–5 of the psalm echo (...)

Luke has connected Acts with his Gospel or his first book (proton), both of which are addressed to Theophilus (Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1). Perhaps Theophilus (a combination of the Greek noun theos, translated “God,” and (...)