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One of the more unnerving aspects of Mark’s narrative is that people we might expect to grasp Jesus’ significance end up failing to do so. Presumed insiders expect the wrong things from Jesus and turn (...)

“Preaching first and foremost has to be an act not of explanation, but an act of love.” Join Matt Skinner in his garden to talk about Trinitarian theology, John 3:16, and the world that God (...)

Mark skimps on detail and storytelling flourishes—except when it doesn’t. This passage offers us one of the Second Gospel’s best-told stories, all while ramping up our estimation of how great Jesus’ power is. Thus far (...)

Since 2017, Jennifer Ackerman has been directing the efforts of Fuller Seminary’s Brehm Preaching—A Lloyd John Ogilvie Initiative, where she has worked to catalyze a movement of empowered, wise preachers who live and lead at (...)

Unlike Matthew (8:23–27) and Luke (8:22–25), Mark 4:35–41 clocks this episode at evening (verse 35), when a lake’s crossing would have been more hazardous. That some disciples took Jesus with them in a boat “just (...)

Mark 3:19b–35 is among the evangelist’s subtlest intercalations: the insertion of one story inside another, inviting us to hear each as the other’s counterpart. Jesus’ refutation of theological teachers (3:22–30) is sandwiched inside his family (...)

Where do you find joy? Matt Skinner is drawn to the way Jesus gives his joy to the disciples in John 15. He encourages you to experience joy in the pulpit, a joy that comes (...)

Karoline Lewis on John 15: Be the branches of Jesus’ ministry — connect with each other to bear witness to God’s love. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luther Seminary (@workingpreacher)

This creation psalm celebrates the goodness, splendor, complexity, and interrelatedness of creation, which reflect God’s wisdom.1 With the words “your works” and the subsequent naming of elements of nature, Psalm 104 celebrates the world as (...)

Amid all the joy and promise of Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, Judas remained a problem for Jesus’ movement. Though less well-known than Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, Spy Wednesday—the day “Satan entered Judas (...)