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The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary 24B) is the only instance of Psalm 116:1-9 as a Sunday reading in the lectionary that provides opportunities to use most of its second half (verses 10-17) which are (...)

Editor’s Note: Each week in August Working Preacher will publish commentaries that correspond with the readings for Season of Creation 2021: Series B (The Word Series). A full listing of worship resources (including liturgies to accompany the (...)

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 (...)

On the surface, Proverbs 9:1-6 reads as positive instruction for those seeking to live an ethical life, one that leaves aside “naivety” (Hebrew peta’im) and is grounded instead in “understanding” or “insight” (binah; verse 6).  (...)

The 2020 film Kiss the Ground, narrated by Woody Harrelson, portrays “regenerative farming,” a relatively new practice in the U.S. and around the world, restoring spent land and sequestering carbon in the soil. In one (...)

Despite humanity’s modern advances, storms remain terrifying and dangerous realities. A powerful monsoon can lash the earth with lightning, hail, and flash floods. Hurricanes can bring devastation to even the most modern communities. In some (...)

The 21st-century global church is facing a mammoth missional, spiritual, evangelical and theological uphill climb. Instead of being a global village, nations have decided to be isolated from each other. The gospel of America First, (...)

Well, here you are, wondering whether to take the leap of faith and make Psalm 23 the text for—or at least an important element of—proclamation for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost.1 You may be aware of (...)

The disciples return from the mission (Mark 6:30-31) Mark reported the re-gathering of Jesus’ “apostles” (6:30) from a successful mission (see Mark 6:7-13) after depicting the death and burial of John.1 As John’s mission came (...)

Before Mark reports John the Baptist’s death, the only story in which Jesus is not the primary subject (6:14-29), Mark tells the story of Jesus’ hometown rejection.1 Rejection at home (Mark 6:1-6) For the first (...)