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Commentary on John 6:1-21

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-17-2/commentary-on-john-61-21-5

Our narrator places the Bread Discourse in the middle of the Book of Signs (John 1-12). It feels like a centerpiece. The present verses include two miracles: John’s version of the multiplication of loaves for (...)

July 25, 2021

Gardens Alive

https://www.workingpreacher.org/theology-and-interpretation/gardens-alive

Where I live, it’s time to plant summer vegetables. The fig trees, eager to awaken early, have already unfurled their leaves. Dozens of artichoke, pepper, eggplant, and tomato seedlings have been growing inside since March, (...)

May 22, 2021

The Newness of the Spirit

https://www.workingpreacher.org/dear-working-preacher/the-newness-of-the-spirit

Dear Working Preacher, Thank you for all you do to preach the Word of God in a spiritless, dispiriting world. And welcome to Pentecost. May the Holy Spirit stir up new life you. No, that’s (...)

May 16, 2021

Commentary on Lamentations 3:22-33

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-13-2/commentary-on-lamentations-322-33-5

Lamentations is rarely read or sung in any American churches, but when it is, it’s the passage in today’s lectionary reading. Beautiful hymns such as “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” have helped the church for hundreds (...)

June 27, 2021

Commentary on Job 38:1-11

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-12-2/commentary-on-job-381-11-5

God’s two responses to Job don’t answer the questions Job asked in his long and painful speeches, and neither do they defend God from Job’s brutally honest accusations. But they do reveal one of the (...)

June 20, 2021

Commentary on Ezekiel 17:22-24

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-11-2/commentary-on-ezekiel-1722-24-5

The exile looms large in the Old Testament, and for good reason: it marked the symbolic and material destruction of everything that structured Judahite identity and faith. When Nebuchadnezzar ordered King Zedekiah blinded and deported (...)

June 13, 2021

Be Like a Tree

https://www.workingpreacher.org/dear-working-preacher/be-like-a-tree

My children are in the habit of asking, when they hear about a person in the news that they don’t know, “Is he a good person or a bad person?” I usually try to explain (...)

May 9, 2021

Commentary on Acts 1:15-17, 21-26

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/seventh-sunday-of-easter-2/commentary-on-acts-115-17-21-26-5

The most obvious preaching text for Ascension Sunday is Acts’ account of Jesus’ ascension itself (Acts 1:1-11). But because the opening of Acts is the lectionary text for the church’s mid-week Ascension Day celebration (May (...)

May 16, 2021

Commentary on Acts 4:5-12

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/fourth-sunday-of-easter-2/commentary-on-acts-45-12-5

Conflict arises in Acts for the first time in this passage.  It’s a story that follows immediately on the heels of last Sunday’s reading, in which Peter, with John at his side, preaches a sermon (...)

April 25, 2021

Commentary on Acts 6:1—7:2a, 44-60

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/narrative-lectionary/stephens-witness/commentary-on-acts-61-72a-44-60

The first five chapters of Acts revolve around the Temple in Jerusalem (Acts 2:46; 3:1-10; 4:1; 5:20-24, 42). In Acts 6, Luke’s narrative turns toward Jews from the wider Diaspora whose common language is Greek. (...)

April 18, 2021
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