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The small poetic book of Lamentations was composed during the fall of Jerusalem to the invading Babylonian armies in the early years of the sixth century BCE. Ongoing Jewish tradition enshrines this history by reading (...)

What really happened? Did Jesus perform a miracle, controlling the forces of nature by a simple word? Or is this a simple story of a stormy day on the lake that the gospel writer inflated (...)

How quickly things can change, and how differently people can interpret the same event! Last week’s reading from Acts 3 featured the people’s amazement at the apostles’ healing the lame man who had long begged (...)

For the early church depicted in Acts, the resurrection of Christ is less a creedal article of individual faith and hope than a creative force of community formation and fellowship. According to our text summarizing (...)

Ask a non–Christian–even ask some Christians–what the point of Christian faith is. For many, it is “Jesus came so that I’ll live forever.” In the Gospels, however, Jesus never promises that he will be crucified (...)

For additional lectionary resources on the assigned texts for Reformation Sunday, please see the Craft of Preaching articles. The two stories of Matthew 22:34-46 conclude an entire narrative section focused on the Jerusalem leadership in (...)

You can currently purchase online both a book, the title of which is Jesus is Not a Republican, and a T-shirt claiming that “Jesus Votes Republican.” And, of course, you can find the converse claims (...)

Just as the central New Testament story of Jesus’ death and resurrection comes to us in four different versions (the four Gospels), so the central Old Testament story of the exodus and Red Sea event (...)

Paul continues to draw upon the whole of scripture, the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms to show that his kindred by race have heard the gospel but remain unbelieving: “But I ask, have they (...)

Paul brings the first eight chapters of Romans to a resounding conclusion in these verses before going on in 9:1-11:36 to that which weighs so heavily on his heart, rejection of Christ by his own (...)