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Most interpreters today treat Psalms 42 and 43 as one psalm because a number of Hebrew manuscripts present the psalms together in one text and because the psalms share vocabulary and themes.1 The refrain in (...)

In Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18, the audience is jarred out of its familiar ritual commemoration of the Day of the Lord to find itself in the far more destabilizing reality of God’s actual presence.1 As in (...)

“I never realized I could fall asleep on a treadmill until I did so while trying to read Leviticus,” said one of my students in a Pentateuch class years ago.1 His testimony to the tedium (...)

Isaiah 25:1-9 testifies to God’s wonderful transformation. It emerges from the so-called Isaiah Apocalypse (Isaiah 24-27). The presence of eschatological language and a reference to the consumption of death/resurrection give rise to the notion of (...)

An overview of the Narrative Lectionary Year 3, fall.1 Promises, promises Some preachers and worship leaders who follow the Narrative Lectionary (NL) have found it useful to divide the year into smaller units. The following (...)

What should proper care of a vineyard look like? What should tenant farmers who lease the land give back to the one who owns all of the land?1 Jesus used another parable with another landowner (...)

Every preacher needs at least two sermons on Psalm 23: one for funerals, and another for ordinary time.1 Because Psalm 23 is so familiar, we’ll look at it in the particular framework of the lectionary (...)

Matthew highlights Jesus’ authority as a central, albeit contested issue throughout the Gospel (for example, Matthew 7:28-29, 9:32-34, 12:24, 28:18).1 Matthew is not content, however, with the simple claim that Jesus possesses divine power, nor (...)

Early in my college career I took an introductory music history course. On the first day of class, the professor asked us, “What do you do while you listen to music?” Students spoke up with (...)

The distance between the writer of Isaiah 55 rooted in the agrarian world and the trauma of the fall of Jerusalem and the 21st-century urban/suburban post-industrial North American reader is immense. The default reading labels (...)