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This key text of the “Davidic Covenant,” is similar to an airport or a train station insofar as one can go all kinds of places from here.1 For example, this chapter gives the reason why (...)

After a first, poetic account in Genesis 1, Genesis 2-3 offers a complementary narrative account of the beginnings of creation.1 Together these three chapters present creation through a bifocal lens that affirms both the profound, (...)

An overview of the Narrative Lectionary Year 3, fall.1 Promises, promises Some preachers and worship leaders who follow the Narrative Lectionary (NL) have found it useful to divide the year into smaller units. The following (...)

What should proper care of a vineyard look like? What should tenant farmers who lease the land give back to the one who owns all of the land?1 Jesus used another parable with another landowner (...)

Zechariah 9:9-12 is a post-exilic prophecy of hope, perhaps best known to Christians for its reuse in the New Testament. It imagines the return of a triumphant but humble king to Jerusalem. These verses call (...)

Isaiah 55:10-13 concludes the section of Isaiah often called “Second Isaiah” (chapters 40-55) by offering a poetic vision of restoration from exile. These verses serve that vision by declaring God’s power to transform the world. (...)

Last week’s text, the parable of the sower, focused on the yield produced by the seed that fell on good soil. In contrast, the parable of the weeds (sometimes called ‘tares’) focuses on the judgment (...)

In my column two months ago, “Nature’s Warning,” I reflected on messages creation itself seems to be conveying through the outbreak of COVID-19. The Bible often speaks of nature forcing change upon people who will (...)

In this text, although Jesus is referring to the generation of his time, it seems it could just as easily be addressed to our generation. Jesus describes a generation that cannot recognize the truth that (...)

W. H. Bellinger, Jr. is Professor of Religion Emeritus at Baylor University where he served for decades as Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew as well as Chair of the Department of Religion.  Recent publications (...)