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What should proper care of a vineyard look like? What should tenant farmers who lease the land give back to the one who owns all of the land? Jesus used another parable with another landowner (...)

Psalm 80 is a communal lament. It seems have been written in response to a disaster, most likely the fall and exile of the Northern Kingdom.1 The lament is dire, yet full of hope. Repeatedly, (...)

Isaiah 25:1-9 begins with a hymn of praise to a victorious God. The opening phrases (“you are my God; I will exalt you”) allude to the ancient “Song of Sea” from Exodus, when the Lord (...)

Every preacher needs at least two sermons on Psalm 23: one for funerals, and another for ordinary time. Because Psalm 23 is so familiar, we’ll look at it in the particular framework of the lectionary (...)

In Leviticus, Moses sits in the tent of meeting, awaiting Yahweh’s ongoing instructions for the covenant people on the brink of entering into the land of promise: Canaan. Much of Leviticus consists of laws specifically (...)

This poignant account of Moses’ death takes place at the very end of Deuteronomy, and therefore at the very end of the entire Pentateuch.  After forty years of wandering through the wilderness, the people of (...)

The text of Exodus 33:12-23 is the culmination of a series of new revelations of God’s identity and names throughout the book of Exodus. The series of unveilings of the divine begins when God first (...)

John’s apocalyptic visions in Revelation 7:9-17 present challenges in two different ways.1 The first challenge has to do with inclusivity/exclusivity. The second has to do with the social setting of the Apocalypse and how that (...)

Each year around All Saints Sunday, I’m reminded of Lawrence Hull Stookey’s writing about this Feast Day. Stookey tells the story of a friend of his who explained to a Protestant class about the meaning (...)

Most interpreters today treat Psalms 42 and 43 as one psalm because a number of Hebrew manuscripts present the psalms together in one text and because the psalms share vocabulary and themes. The refrain in (...)