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Ask almost any preacher, and she will respond that preaching on festival days is more challenging, more exciting, and sometimes more daunting than on other days. Why? For starters, there often seems to be higher (...)

Isaiah’s song of the vineyard in 5:1–7 may be the most click-bait biblical text ever. But in reality, it’s a radical click-bait-and-switch: Isaiah rivets his listeners and then pulls the rug out from under them (...)

Under ideal conditions—no clouds, moon, or light pollution, and a full sky view—the naked human eye can see light from just around 3000 stars. Yet using our own galaxy, the Milky Way, as the model, (...)

One of the gifts of the lectionary is that it can introduce us to images or metaphors for God in Scripture that we tend to overlook or underemphasize. Of course, metaphorical language for God in (...)

Este domingo y en los dos domingos que siguen, los pasajes bíblicos nos ofrecen la oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la teología y práctica de la misión cristiana desde la perspectiva del evangelio de Lucas. Como (...)

There are a great many “issues” nestled in these few verses: unity/oneness and scattering, the power of language and the gift of hearing/understanding, divine and human boundaries, failure to follow God’s command, and even a (...)

The Ascension is not an easy day to preach. Luke is the only gospel that gives us an actual picture of the moment—and then he gives us differing accounts! Luke 24 describes the scene differently (...)

To enter the book of Revelation is to step into a “meandering river,” as Lynn R. Huber suggests in the Wisdom Commentary Series. With all the numbers—seven messages, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven plagues—there seems (...)

The author of John is skilled at weaving layers of themes into the Gospel’s stories. In order to tease out these layers, it is important for interpreters to keep the big-picture view of the literary (...)

“Who knows? God may turn and change their mind, and leave behind a blessing….” (Joel 2:14a; translation mine)1 For the past several years, churches have been faced with uncertainties on many fronts—uncertainty of whether to (...)