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“Praise the Lord.” What more is there to say? “Praise the Lord.” Period. The psalmist has offered five ways to proclaim praise to the Lord with the five Hallelujah Psalms that conclude the Psalter. Even (...)

What will it take for us to see — really see? What will it take for us to see Jesus for whom he really is? What will it take for us to see God? And (...)

The psalms immediately preceding Psalm 25 form a collection that is arranged in a chiastic pattern as follows: A Psalm 15: entrance liturgy   B Psalm 16: psalm of assurance     C Psalm 17: individual lament       D (...)

The texts for this Sunday provide the preacher with a whole kaleidoscope of themes and images. We hear of snakes in the desert (Numbers 21, John 3:14), shipwrecks at sea (Psalm 107), and grace, faith, (...)

“Our senses attach all the scorn, all the revulsion, all the hatred that our reason attaches to crime, to affliction … (E)verybody despises the afflicted to some extent, although practically no one is conscious of (...)

Why is it called “Maundy Thursday?”1 That was my question as I began looking at these texts for the Thursday of Holy Week. You’d think I would know the answer to that question, having attended (...)

Psalm 118 is the last psalm in a group of six psalms in Book Five known as the “the Egyptian Hallel” (Psalms 113-118), psalms that are used in present-day Jewish life at the Passover meal (...)

The Gospel reading for this Sunday picks up the story of Jesus after the resurrection. The disciples are gathered together somewhere in Jerusalem. Suddenly Jesus is in their midst. He greets them saying “Peace be (...)

Psalm 98 is the fifth psalm in a group of six psalms in Book Four of the Psalter known as the Enthronement Psalms (Psalms 93, 95-99). The Enthronement Psalms celebrate the reign of God as (...)

Ecological activist and author Bill McKibben suggests that “environmental devastation stands as the single great crisis of our time, surpassing and encompassing all others.”1 If he is correct or even close to being correct, then (...)