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A rebroadcast from 2017 on Revised Common Lectionary texts for Christmas Day – Proper III (Dec. 25, 2017): (Gospel) John 1:1-14; (1st Reading) Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; (2nd Reading) Hebrews 1:1-4, [5-12]. Recorded at Luther (...)

Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, Joy J. Moore, and Matt Skinner for a conversation on the Revised Common Lectionary texts for Nativity of Our Lord (II), December 25, 2022. [Note: Preachers looking for a podcast on (...)

Introducción El relato de Mateo 3:1-12 (cf. Mc 1:1-8; Lc 3:1-9; Jn 1:19-28) coincide con los otros evangelios en que la obra de Juan el Bautista precede y prepara el camino para la obra de (...)

Too often John the Baptist is treated like a problem to solve. Preachers feel pressure to apologize for his strangeness, his divisiveness, and his threats. Longstanding anti-Jewish tropes and ahistorical caricatures about so-called works-righteousness fuel (...)

In Matthew, Jesus lives in three different places—Bethlehem, Egypt, and Nazareth—by the time he’s a few years old. He evidently grows up in Nazareth, then he resettles in Capernaum just before beginning his ministry. For (...)

Matthew’s genealogy (1:1-17) shows Jesus can be linked to David the king and Abraham the patriarch, so he was qualified to be a Messiah (1:1, 17) who was believed to be coming from the house (...)

As much as any psalm in the Psalter, Psalm 27 expresses trust in the lord and claims absolute dependence on God.1 This is apparent in verse 1, which begins the lectionary reading: “The Lord is (...)

The lectionary selection from Psalm 40 includes ten verses that express thanksgiving (verses 1-10) and one verse of petition for help (verse 11).1 The shift from thanks to plea represents a major problem of interpretation (...)

The account of Jesus’ baptism is found in all four Gospels. Only Matthew records the dialogue between John and Jesus, in which John initially expressed a reluctance to baptize Jesus (3:14), arguing that it should (...)

The Bible does not come with instructions. When a Christian opens the Bible, literally or electronically, she does not hear the voice of Oprah Winfrey or James Earl Jones, telling her how to organize the (...)