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Lectionary Reflection for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany
This excerpt comes from Ezra & Nehemiah (BTCB) by Matthew Levering, commenting on Nehemiah 8:1 -3, 5-6, 8-10: Ezra nourishes the people with the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 4:21-30: While Jesus is reading, all eyes are fixed upon him and all ears attend; here was a passage of enormous potent for...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 9:28-36: As at the first Passover the blood of the lamb slain marked out for deliverance the families of the chosen people...
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Lectionary Reflection for the First Sunday in Lent – plus a giveaway
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 4:1-13: Scripture narrative presents three direct temptations by Satan; these, in canonical order, are the temptation of...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Second Sunday in Lent – plus a giveaway
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 13:31-35: What Jesus is saying, essentially, is that his ministry is now drawing rapidly to a close (the phrase “today,...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Third Sunday in Lent
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 13:1-9: The question about evil and its causes—or about evil and its relation to justice—can of course be asked in many...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32: The familiarity of this version of “the old, old story” should not cause the modern reader too lightly to...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
This excerpt comes from Psalms for All Seasons, commenting on Psalm 126: Psalm 126, the seventh of the Psalms of Ascents, remembers the restoration of Zion and expresses hope in God’s continued...
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Lectionary Reflection for Palm Sunday
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 22:14-20: Jesus, as Luke has learned from many witnesses, is the farthest thing from a dispassionate sage or cool-medium...
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Lectionary Reflection for Easter
This excerpt comes from Luke (BTCB) by David Lyle Jeffrey, commenting on Luke 24:1-12: The difficulty of conveying such a momentous thing as the resurrection verbally is instanced by Luke in his...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter
This excerpt comes from Psalms for All Seasons, commenting on Psalm 118: Psalm 118 is a psalm of thanksgiving that features two primary emphases: a grand testimony regarding the deliverance of God...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Third Sunday of Easter
This excerpt comes from Psalms for All Seasons, commenting on Psalm 30: Psalm 30 is a testimony of gratitude for God’s deliverance and restoration. The psalm preserves the testimony of someone who once...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
This excerpt comes from Revelation (BTCB) by Joseph L. Mangina, commenting on Revelation 7:9-17: As in the scene of the Lamb’s presentation in Rev. 5, so here too the meaning of the vision is brought...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
This excerpt comes from Revelation (BTCB) by Joseph L. Mangina, commenting on Revelation 21:1-6: The vision in Rev. 21 opens with a great divine act of re-creation. As only God can create, calling suns...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
This excerpt comes from Psalms for All Seasons, commenting on Psalm 67: Psalm 67 is a communal expression of desire for God’s blessing so that the whole world will come to acknowledge God. The psalm...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
This excerpt comes from Revelation (BTCB) by Joseph L. Mangina, commenting on Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21: Worship is the place where the church’s confidence in Christ’s defeat of the powers...
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Lectionary Reflection for Pentecost
This excerpt comes from Psalms for All Seasons, commenting on Psalm 104: Psalm 104, a psalm of praise, focuses on God’s creative work. Complementing descriptions of creation in Gen. 1 and Job 28-39,...
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Lectionary Reflection for Trinity Sunday
This excerpt comes from Proverbs (BTCB) by Daniel J. Treier, commenting on Proverbs 8: “Wisdom Christology” has currently become popular, treating wisdom as a crucial category for understanding the...
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Lectionary Reflection for Second Sunday after Pentecost
This excerpt comes from 1 & 2 Kings (BTCB) by Peter J. Leithart, commenting on 1 Kings 18:20-39: When Ahab arrives, Elijah proposes a contest on Mount Carmel, in the north of Israel toward the...
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Lectionary Reflection for the Third Sunday after Pentecost
This excerpt comes from 1 & 2 Kings (BTCB) by Peter J. Leithart, commenting on 1 Kings 17:8-24: Wherever Elijah goes, life breaks out, abundantly, since he is the bearer of the word and presence of...
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