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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling grumpy at this beginning of the new year. Partly it’s because my son got Covid (for the second time, and despite being fully vaccinated) and had (...)

The preacher has a clear focus on the blessings and woes named by Jesus for the crowds who have come to be healed and to hear him. These verses put today’s hearers on a level (...)

Preachers live busy lives. They are often so consumed with the daily tasks associated with church life that they rarely have time to reflect on the art of preaching itself. This isn’t an accusation but (...)

There’s a long-standing debate in Johannine scholarship about the actual moment of the incarnation in John’s gospel: is it John 1:5 or 1:14? I won’t go into the details of said scholarly considerations (Working Preachers (...)

During last February’s cold snap—the one in which millions of Texans lost electricity, natural gas, and water due to insufficiently weatherized utility systems, and at least 210 died—it was not the humans alone who needed (...)

Psalm 29 is a hymn that praises God as ruler of the universe. Like other hymns, this psalm begins with a call to worship (verses 1-2) and then identifies divine qualities and attributes that justify (...)

What role might the actions of posing questions, nurturing kinship connections, and praying around water play in this moment of our Christian year and at the beginning of the new calendar year? Luke’s account of (...)

Herod the Great was well-known in the ancient world for both his paranoia and his brutality. He had one of his wives and several of his sons murdered because he thought they were plotting against (...)

As we celebrate Christmas together and give thanks for the wondrous gift of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can go deeper in the mystery of God in our reflections on this passage. Titus 3:4-7 forms (...)

Christianity is, in many ways, a faith built on paradoxes.1 Old and New Testaments alike bear witness to a God characterized by both mercy and justice, both grace and truth (John 1:14). This God we (...)