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Although it is not entirely unique in the Psalter, the most striking thing about Psalm 91 is that it ends with a divine speech in verses 14-16.1 Usually when God speaks in the Psalms, it (...)

Following hot on the heels of the rich young man who goes away grieving, this week we have another famous story. Oh, James and John, you foolish boys. Of course, following Jesus doesn’t mean being (...)

In 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted a new liturgical observance, the Feast of Christ the King. The Pope felt that the followers of Christ were being lured away by the increasing secularism of the world. (...)

The Greek meaning of “epiphany” is to reveal or uncover. Yet every season, Jesus is “uncovered” or “revealed” twice.  Luke “reveals” the identity of the baby in the songs of the angels, so we celebrated (...)

The poets and compilers of the Book of Psalms were clearly in touch with a perennial human issue — happiness.1 “Happy” is the very first word in the Psalter, and the repetition of “happy” in (...)

The previous sections of 1 Corinthians 15 reminded the believers of the centrality of the resurrection to Paul’s calling, to the gospel that he has preached, and to their faith.  Contra scholarship that assumes the (...)

Over the years, I have heard a number of sermons on this passage that have missed the exegetical boat because they focused entirely on the question of the relationship between sin and suffering (Luke 13:2-5). (...)

Jerusalem is the geographical and hermeneutical center of Luke’s Gospel. The drama of the narrative begins and ends in the Jerusalem temple (1:5-8; 24:52-53). Jesus’ final journey to Jerusalem unfolds over many chapters in Luke, (...)

Writing to the Corinthians in the sixth decade of the first century, Paul provides the first written account we have of Jesus’ last evening with his disciples. His description, like the similar Synoptic accounts (Matthew (...)

The Corinthians received the gospel (euanggelion, “good news”) from Paul, who in turn had received it from others. This tradition includes a series of the events — Christ’s death, burial, resurrection and appearance (1 Corinthians (...)