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Today’s Gospel lection again competes for the preacher’s attention with another of the New Testament’s choice epistolary texts.1 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 is the oldest of all testimonies to our Lord’s resurrection by one among many (...)

Many of us can only hear the first line of the psalm in the King James Version: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” With a simple metaphor in a concise and elegant (...)

When it comes to modern preachers, “boldness” may not inherently be a virtue. While no one wants a milktoast speaker, many of us associate “boldness” with religious voices too arrogant and unsophisticated for our liking. (...)

Este pasaje es parte de la oración que cierra los “discursos del adiós.” Se la conoce como la “oración sacerdotal.” Como toda oración, está llena de énfasis, de repeticiones, de efectos. Jesús le pide al (...)

For well over two centuries (or more correctly, for two or three millennia) scholars, pastors, lay leaders, skeptics, devout believers, and dedicated unbelievers have debated the truth and accuracy of scripture. Errors, inconsistencies, and contradictions (...)

The reason that this passage appears in the lectionary at this point is obvious. It is an epistolary text that speaks of the activities of the Holy Spirit. There are of course other passages that (...)

This Sunday’s pairing of Mark 6:1-6 and 6:7-13 kindles the preacher’s imagination. The first passage — “Where did this man get all this?” (6:2) — closes a section that began with Mark 4:35-41: “Who then (...)

Well, here you are, wondering whether to take the leap of faith and make Psalm 23 the text for — or at least an important element of — proclamation for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost. (...)

A lot happens in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Mark. Jesus is rejected in his hometown. He sends the twelve on mission. John the Baptist is killed. Jesus feeds the five thousand and (...)

Las dos historias en nuestro texto bíblico para esta semana son precisamente las que se omitieron en el texto de Marcos 6 de la semana pasada. Tenemos dos relatos distintos: “Alimentación de los cinco mil,” (...)