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Placed by the Spirit Life in the Spirit is a wild ride. John 3:8 tells us, “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where (...)

To enter the book of Revelation is to step into a “meandering river,” as Lynn R. Huber suggests in the Wisdom Commentary Series. With all the numbers—seven messages, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven plagues—there seems (...)

It is strange how little airtime the conversion of Saul (also called Paul) receives in the Sunday lectionary. For a story that Luke returns to twice more (22:3–21; 26:2–23) and that echoes across the Pauline (...)

If you have ever experienced a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” you have some sense of what Psalm 150 is all about. Picture the conductor tapping the baton. The orchestra comes to attention, and the (...)

Born out of a gut-wrenching anguish, Psalm 22 is the cry of one who knows what it is to be bullied by his enemies, rejected by his community, and abandoned by God.1 The threat for (...)

Dawn comes while shadows still linger in the sky, and I realize there is no whole picture without light and darkness. The picture of the “Suffering Servant” in this Isaiah text is sketched with bright (...)

Psalm 126 packs amazing poignancy and power in the space of only six verses.1 It is the seventh of the Songs of Ascent, all of which are relatively brief and most of which, like Psalm (...)

Easter season in Year C gives preachers an opportunity to explore the most troublemaking book of the New Testament. Left uninterpreted, Revelation (no -s, please!) will be exploited and distorted, again and again. But read (...)

In the Christian tradition, Psalm 32 is counted among the seven “penitential psalms” (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143). The thing that makes Psalm 32 unique among this company is that it is (...)

Psalm 27 is one of the most profound prayers in the entire Bible. The depth of the psalmist’s trust in God echoes across the ages, leading James L. Mays to rank it right up there (...)