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The main subject of Psalm 145 is the eternal kingship of the Lord.1 The psalm contains a comprehensive expression of praise for God as heavenly king. Perhaps this is why the psalm’s superscription designates it (...)

Like the earlier figures of Moses and Elisha, Jesus proclaims a message of God’s abundance and power to save. John renders the feeding of the 5,000 story in a unique way. He combines elements of (...)

The text of Hebrews is replete with comparisons. In these four verses we find two examples: a greater and more perfect tabernacle and “how much more” comparing the blood of Christ to the blood of (...)

In 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted a new liturgical observance, the Feast of Christ the King. The Pope felt that the followers of Christ were being lured away by the increasing secularism of the world. (...)

The temptation is to do too much rather than too little on Christmas Eve. For many, there is the feeling that preachers are the bringers of magic from the first century into the twenty-first. People (...)

Acts 19: 1-7 has the message of the Holy Spirit as the promise to all believers and read in the context of Acts 8: 14-17; one wonders as whether the Holy Spirit needs a human (...)

Wine often marks major life moments. Wine often accompanies celebratory cheers, and it sometimes eases heartbreak and tears. In the second chapter of John, we find Jesus’ ministry inaugurated at a wedding, where he supplies (...)

These selections come from the third of the three chapters that comprise Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). I understand the Sermon to provide examples of and instruction for Jesus-followers who live on the (...)

In Matthew 14, Jesus’ exercise of divine power is set in contrast with the corrupt, violent, and fear-inducing power of Herod Antipas. Jesus’ power not only surpasses that of Herod; it is, more importantly, a (...)

In Luke, Jesus’ death and resurrection is “the Exodus that Jesus [accomplishes] at Jerusalem” (in Luke 9:31, “departure” = exodos in Greek). Jesus leads his followers on the journey to freedom. As the embodiment of (...)