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Preaching Pentecost Sunday? Karoline Lewis shows you how wind, fire, and breath can transform your sermon. John 20:19-23 is an invitation for your congregation to feel the Spirit, not just hear about her.   View (...)

Eternal life isn’t something you’re waiting for. Cody Sanders unpacks Jesus’s own definition of eternal life in John 17 and why it matters for your preaching this Sunday.   View this post on Instagram   (...)

Week after week, we preachers are offered a set of texts from the lectionary. When we choose the gospel lesson (as I most often do), we do our best to understand how that episode in (...)

No small amount of ink has been spilled trying to sort out the structure of this prayer song of the individual.1 Hans-Joachim Kraus believes the poem to be plagued by copy errors,2 while James L. (...)

The trauma of exile and restoration inspire reflection on leadership and on God’s role in the salvation of the people. In Zechariah 9:9–12, prisoners of hope anticipate a coming king. This poetic passage not only (...)

We might detect a note of frustration in Jesus’s voice in this passage, which consists of two parts taken from a much longer episode. He has misperceptions to correct about himself and his ministry, and (...)

What does “eternal life” actually mean? In this episode, Matt Skinner, Karoline Lewis, and Cody Sanders dig into the texts for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (May 17, 2026): Acts 1:6–14, Psalm 68:1–10, 32–35, 1 (...)

Commentators have long puzzled over the interpretation of this passage for several reasons.1 First, they suggest various understandings of the language of being raised up on the third day in 6:2, and second, they differ on (...)

Cody Sanders on John 10:1-10: Jesus knows his sheep by name. That’s not a metaphor. It’s an invitation to preach intimacy this Sunday. Cody Sanders breaks down the Fourth Sunday of Easter gospel text and (...)

Week 6: July 5, 2026 Preaching text: Esther 7:1-10, 9:1-2, 20-22, 29-32; accompanying text: Luke 1:68-72 This week, the preacher should, again, fill in the details of the story. Esther invites King Ahasuerus and Haman (...)