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Discussion on texts for Fourth Sunday of Easter (May 11, 2014): (Gospel) John 10:1-10; (1st Reading) Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; (2nd Reading) 1 Peter 2:19-25.

Few people thrive on conflict. Yet leadership can bring us face to face with it in unexpected moments. What motivates normal people to overcome fear when confronting potential controversy? The sequence of passages from Acts (...)

Discussion on texts for the Fourth Sunday in Lent (March 30, 2014): (Gospel) John 9:1-41; (1st Reading) 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; (2nd Reading) Ephesians 5:8-14.

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Craig Koester, and Kathryn Schifferdecker for “I Love to Tell the Story,” a conversation on Year 4 of the narrative lectionary. This podcast covers the text for March 5, 2014: John (...)

Scripture’s story of Lent begins this year by describing the first human job. March 9th’s reading from Genesis 2 and 3 digests the second creation story very briefly, starting with God’s placing the first human (...)

Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Karoline Lewis, and Matt Skinner for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Easter 4: John 10:22-30; Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23(1); Revelation 7:9-17

Environmental writer Bill McKibben has been working to bring climate change to the forefront of the U.S. agenda. Immediately after Election Day 2012, he embarked on a 20-city “Do the Math” bus tour, raising support (...)

Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, David Lose, and Matt Skinner for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Pentecost 8: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a, Jeremiah 23:1-6, Psalm 23 (1), Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Will you forgive me if I invite a terribly simple theme for a sermon that focuses mainly on just one verse? Well, with your forgiveness or without it ?, and ready for charges of proof-texting, (...)

As I discussed in part one of this series a wedding sermon or homily is most effective when based on a biblical text. The choice of a biblical text for a wedding sermon may develop (...)