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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 9th Sunday after Pentecost.1 (...)

Alimentación de los Cinco Mil (vv. 1-15) San Juan describe una escena en la que Jesús va caminando al otro lado del mar de Galilea, junto a Tiberias. Le sigue una gran multitud que es (...)

Psalm 90 has often been categorized as a wisdom psalm, which, like the book of Ecclesiastes (see 3:19-20; 7:2), is very much in touch with human finitude and the brevity of human life (see also (...)

The text we read today is central to what has come to be known as the Suffering Servant tradition. The Servant of God who has been crushed, afflicted, and wounded for our transgressions. A despised (...)

The tale of blind Bartimaeus is a bit uncanny in Mark’s Gospel — because nothing goes wrong. Was Mark feeling quite well the day he jotted down this one? Had he eaten something funny, like (...)

On this Christ the King Sunday, we hear about the ideal king from the “sweet singer of Israel,” himself, King David. Like Jacob (Genesis 49) and Moses (Deuteronomy 33) before him, David before his death (...)

Last week’s lectionary passage took us nearly to the end of Luke’s story (Luke 21). This week, we go back nearly to the beginning (Luke 3), where we find a veritable “who’s who” of first-century (...)

Luke depicts John the Baptist’s message as a clarion call to repentance. His proclamation can be divided into roughly three sections: First (verses 7-9), he addresses potential excuses. He has harsh words (“You brood of (...)

Many scholars have repeatedly claimed that the gospel of Luke aims to introduce Christianity as a harmless religion to the Roman Empire. They also argue that the gospel focuses on religion and spirituality and has (...)

On the first Sunday after Christmas, it’s hard for any passage to compete with Luke’s story of the boy Jesus in the Temple. However, the Colossians passage provides excellent commentary in relation to Luke 21:49, (...)