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Matt Skinner was asked to define the word “basket” for a Bible reference two decades ago. Today, he connects the baskets in John 6 to God’s abundance. Is your pulpit a place that reflects God’s (...)

No todas las personas son conscientes de que los evangelios afirman claramente que durante el transcurso de la totalidad de su ministerio terrenal Jesús hizo de la ciudad de Cafarnaúm su lugar de residencia: “Los (...)

Desde el siglo XIX, el uso de las perspectivas histórico-críticas en el análisis de los textos bíblicos generó, entre otras prácticas, la del estudio descontextualizado de pequeñas porciones o perícopas de un pasaje bajo la (...)

In our present cultural moment in the United States, many a preacher might hesitate before taking today’s text to the pulpit. An aggressive, militarized version of Christianity, brewing at the margins of social and political (...)

With the concluding verses of Psalm 34, the author has returned to the subject matter with which he began, namely the suffering from which God delivered him (verse 4).1 Along the way, as we saw (...)

Food is a metaphor for life in many biblical stories. For a few weeks now, we have been reading Jesus’ sermon in John 6 in which he proclaims, “I am the bread of life,” and (...)

So much for subtlety and secrets. Jesus has a way of attracting attention and drawing crowds. It can be easy to miss that because so many of the prominent passages in Mark involve him interacting (...)

Durante el siglo XX el Evangelio de Marcos fue noticia en los periódicos y medios de comunicación varias veces; la primera de ellas hace justo cien años, en 1924, cuando Burnett Hillman Streeter popularizó la (...)

The lection consists of what are clearly the most familiar, beautiful, and beloved verses of Psalm 85, but it is helpful to look briefly at verses 1–7 in order to set the context. Ancient origin (...)

Amos is a peculiar prophet in a couple of ways. First, he was a Judean who lived in Tekoa, a small village 12 miles south of Jerusalem, but he prophesied in Israel, far to the (...)