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[This is Week 3 of a 6-week preaching series on Job.] Week 3 Job 14:7-15; 19:23-27 In the depths of despair, Job experiences moments of inexplicable hope, or moments at least of hopeful longing. God (...)

Today’s readings reflect a turning point in the narrative of Israel as a nation: The 2 Samuel 5 passage notes the moment when David becomes king over all the tribes of Israel and Judah. The (...)

It was customary for Roman soldiers to keep the garments of persons they had just executed. They divided Jesus’ garments as a prize among themselves. The tunic was so well made that they thought it (...)

Psalm 91 is the second psalm in Book Four of the Psalter. It is classified as an Individual Hymn of Thanksgiving, in which an individual praises God for goodness to or on behalf of that (...)

Psalm 126 is a community song of trust or confidence that skillfully employs metaphor to proclaim God as the one who brings joy out of sorrow, laughter out of tears, and good out of evil. (...)

Three psalms in particular have served as a treasure trove of evocative imagery for the Gospel writers’ renditions of the crucifixion. Jesus’ cry of dereliction, quoting the opening words of Psalm 22 (Mark 15:34; Matthew (...)

We enter Holy Week hearing “Hosannas” from the crowd and move from triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the cross of humiliation. The words of our Psalm for today have a very familiar ring. These verses (...)

Psalm 22 is a prayer of complaint that, perhaps more than any psalm, serves as a link between the Old Testament and the story of Jesus’ passion. 1 Indeed, this psalm is an appropriate lectionary (...)

Psalm 22 is a prayer of complaint that, perhaps more than any psalm, serves as a link between the Old Testament and the story of Jesus’ passion. Indeed, this psalm is an appropriate lectionary reading (...)

This is one of the Bible’s saddest texts, appropriately read by Christians on Good Friday, the saddest day of the church year. I find myself emotionally drawn into the agony of the speaker, and I (...)