Our Gospel Lectionary selection this week includes the optional verses 37-43a. For this pastoral commentary, I will focus only on the...

About 33 percent of our Bible is poetry in genre. That stated, I think it is wise for us to know how to read Hebrew Poetry so we might be...

When Paul’s letter to the Romans finds its way into the Lectionary, I am often torn on using it as my primary preaching text. On one...