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Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 24 Revelation 21:1-6 John 11:32-44 'Jesus began to weep,' or, in the King James Version, 'Jesus wept' (John 11:35). As the shortest verse in the Bible, many [...]

Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36 When my daughter was two years old, she asked me what a slave was. I explained, as best I could, that a [...]

Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 8 Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16 The theme of creation runs through this week's readings. Genesis 2 is the most obvious account, but it is actually one [...]

Even as Jewish political sovereignty waned during Late Antiquity, Judaism experienced a profound flourishing in the legal sphere. Confronting a changing political landscape, while encountering distinctive Greco-Roman power structures, Jewish [...]

As A TECHNICAL CIVILIZATION, WE VALUE PRECISION and power, prizing the neat defining and solving of problems. Our values are often not different when we study the Bible: we want [...]

2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 First Reading Each of the readings assigned for this day point to the power of God working through God's people. [...]

Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Psalm 111 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 First Reading In our first reading, Moses assures the people that God will 'raise up' (Deut 18:15) another prophet to lead [...]

Trust God's promise! When I was in fourth grade, my Sunday School teacher was obsessed with the word covenant. Almost every Sunday, she would ask, 'What is a covenant?' We [...]

'What did you make of those pericopes?' I asked my friend Audrey West, who pens this series of Preaching Helps. What a privilege to be able to engage a biblical [...]

Isaiah 25:1-9 Psalm 23 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 Jesus has entered into Jerusalem, center of economic, political, and religious control (21:1ff.), where the powers-that-be have challenged his authority (21:23). The [...]

Third Sunday after Pentecost--Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Series A The questions I am asked about preaching often follow a common theme--telling personal stories, using media, teaching the Bible in sermons. [...]

Zechariah 9:9-12 Psalm 45:10-17 Romans 7:15-25a Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Every time I read this text from Romans, I am reminded of Yogi Bear. (I hope these cartoons are still available [...]

Jeremiah 28:5-9 Psalm 13 Romans 6:12-23 Matthew 10:40-42 The lesson from Matthew is not really about hospitality; it is still a part of the missionary discourse. Jesus had sent his [...]

Isaiah 44:6-8 Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 So what's a weed and what's a desirable specimen? How do we decide which plants are the ones we want [...]

Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28 Psalm 46 Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 [29-31] Matthew 7:21-29 The text from Matthew is the very end of the Sermon on the Mount, yet we haven't heard a [...]

Exodus 19:2-8a Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19 Romans 5:1-8 Matthew 9:35-10:8 [9-23] God's undeserved mercy and grace is the golden thread woven through all three of these pericopes: Israel's election, Christ's death [...]

Genesis B describes how Satan sends his emissary to earth to seduce Adam and Eve so that they trespass against God's command. The quoted passage requires an analysis as the morphologically regular accusative singular geworhtne of the past writing belonging to workman is attested four times in Genesis B.

THE STORY OF JESUS' BURIAL, ALTHOUGH ATTESTED by all four gospels, has scant representation in the Revised Common Lectionary. The synoptic accounts are only given as part of the 'Liturgy [...]

Religious experience forms one of the central parts of the compulsory sections of the AQA religious studies specification. There are sections in both Module 1, the compulsory AS module, and […]

The AS Ethics specification asks you to study the possible ways in which religion and morality may or may not be linked. Usually the thrust of the question is whether […]

Contemporary English Translations of Scripture reveals in detail how the publication of a fresh NT translation of the New American Bible and, to a lesser extent, the appearance of the New Jerusalem Bible are signs that translation practice is changing--from 'dynamic equivalence' to 'formal equivalence.' The article studies some infelicities of past translations and their amendments in more recent versions.

Crisis in Jerusalem? Narrative Criticism in New Testament Studies explains how narrative criticism challenges the traditional historical-critical presentation of biblical texts as built of units of tradition in accord with a theological program of the author; the text engages readers in creating images of the world and values, which must also be subject to challenge by other narratives; gospel projections of the place of Judaism in salvation history must be questioned today.

Author John Milton believed that reading gains its value when the reader internalizes the meaning of the text rather than merely absorbing the content of a text. He extended this principle to the reading of the Holy Scriptures. However, he believed that the correct interpretation of biblical text is guided by the Holy Spirit. He likened this particular type of divinely inspired reading to the relationship not only between readers and the text but also between readers and their conscience as they compare their own conduct with what is written in the Bible.

Sunday, May 10 Acts: 8:26-40 THE RECORD OF an Ethiopian eunuch and Philip meeting on a road to Gaza ignites the imagination. Why was this Ethiopian eunuch traveling on this [...]

James M. Phillips, associate director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center and associate editor of the INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH from 1983 to 1997, died August 2, 2012, at [...]