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When I was growing up in the church, the last Sunday of the church year was known as the Last Sunday after Trinity. The focus was on Judgment Day, often depicted in very vivid and (...)

Today marks the beginning of Holy Week, a time in the Christian calendar when we journey with Christ to the cross, remembering Christ’s suffering for our sake as well as our own dying with Christ (...)

Born out of a gut-wrenching anguish, Psalm 22 is the cry of one who knows what it is to be bullied by his enemies, rejected by his community, and abandoned by God. The threat for (...)

A few weeks ago I was browsing through our local Barnes and Noble bookstore and ran across a thin volume with the title: PRAISE BE TO YOU: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (...)

Psalm 84 is classified as a pilgrimage psalm, sung as praise by those who traveled to Jerusalem to worship.1 Such journeys were often beset with hardship as the traveler moved through the wilderness over great (...)

Psalm 22 has been described rather glibly as “the fifth passion narrative” for the imagery it has contributed to the evangelists’ depictions of the closing events of Good Friday.1 While this description does wrench the (...)

Psalm 126 has a rich lectionary tradition, used for worship during Lent, after Pentecost, and here on the third Sunday of Advent. Given these multiple contexts, one will find many helpful commentaries at Working Preacher, (...)

This wonderful and important psalm emphasizes another aspect of God’s promises that we consider in this season of Advent — the promise to be with King David and his line forever. That being said, Psalm (...)

The psalmist of Psalm 148 sings:1 Praise the Lord from the earth      You sea monsters and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and frost,      stormy wind fulfilling his command. What an odd call (...)

Like many psalms of praise, Psalm 98 begins with an imperative “call to praise” followed by a “reason to praise” introduced by the Hebrew word ki, “for.”1 Here is my translation of 98:1-3: Sing to (...)