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“On Christ the solid rock I stand All other ground is sinking sand”1 With this passage, we find ourselves at the end of the Sermon of the Mount, arguably Jesus’ most famous sermon. Most biblical (...)

As we journey through ordinary time, our lectionary turns to passages that reveal who Jesus is and lead us into deeper discipleship. The text chosen for this week, John 1:29-42, makes some striking claims about (...)

Many of us adorn our homes and churches with beloved Nativity sets during Advent and Christmas. They’ve become an integral part of our celebration of the season. But there’s also an unintended consequence of these (...)

I just provided the Working Preacher commentary for Psalm 17:1-9 (see November 6), wryly suggesting that the lectionary conveniently left out the brutal imagery and cursing in that psalm’s last six verses. I can’t make (...)

This week’s passage is an intriguing one for Reformation Sunday. Reformation Day commemorates the day that Martin Luther went to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and posted his Ninety-Five Theses. Luther’s action was no (...)

Todo el mundo piensa que la humildad es algo bueno, pero pocos se apresuran a practicarla. Pasa hoy en día, donde lo que los demás piensan de uno está sobrevalorado, y donde las redes sociales (...)

Exodus as a Universal Experience The Exodus, one of the most significant events in Israel’s history, is read, interpreted, and appropriated in various ways by different cultural, ethnic, and religious groups, across generations, and with (...)

This parable, if we do our exegetical homework, puts us in something of a bind. At face value, the parable is written so that we will be drawn to identify with the tax collector due (...)

Once again in these verse from chapters three and four of 2 Timothy, Timothy is being exhorted to continue in and remain firm in what he has learned from “Paul.”1 And there are two striking, (...)

While in 1 Timothy Paul appears as a free man, in 2 Timothy he is assumed to be in a prison (2 Timothy 1:8; 2:9), probably in Rome (1:16-17; see also Acts 28:16). Besides, he (...)