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These verses promise good news to those who desire to be Jesus’ disciples: He and only he brings true freedom. At the same time, these verses take us into the teeth of the Gospel according (...)

As I have done with the previous three Psalm lections, I again tie the theme of worship with some other theme of the passage. Worship is obviously an appropriate concept to anchor Psalm 146, the (...)

Martin Luther King Jr. begins his autobiography by stating, “Of course I was religious. I grew up in the church. My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, (...)

For the fifth Sunday in a row we find ourselves in John 6, but as this long account comes to its end, there are some disturbing surprises. Throughout this chapter’s discussion about the bread which (...)

Once again we are faced with a Gospel text that deals with bread and eating. But once again, this is not simply a repetition of the last two Sunday texts. John is still exploring the (...)

Last Sunday’s Psalm lection (34:1-8) contained some of the typical features of individual Psalms of Thanksgiving, where a worshiper invites others to praise God (verses 1-3) for an act of personal deliverance (verses 4, 6). (...)

Preachers may need to remind their congregations about last week’s text and the feeding of the multitude because in today’s text, John begins to unpack the meaning of that earlier event. Verse 35 may seem (...)

The feeding of the multitude is the only miracle story told in all four Gospels. Perhaps this story has such a secure place in the memory of the church because of the Eucharistic themes which (...)

Today’s text is probably one of the best known birthday party stories ever! Maybe we should call it a b-day, however, so we can also recognize the beheading that occurs. Alas, I don’t think that (...)

The Second Lesson for this Sunday is the first in a series of readings from the Letter to the Ephesians extending over seven Sundays. Of the total verses in Ephesians (155), nearly half (75 of (...)