Content related to Old Testament

Home » Old Testament » Page 61

Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16

Lent 1C

It is an unhappy fact that with very little effort, we could update the language of Psalm 91 to fit our present age (and although the RCL only takes the first and last few verses, this Sermon Commentary will encompass the whole psalm).  Talk of a “fowler’s snare” sounds suspiciously like the kind of traps…

Read More

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Lent 1C

Like all good preachers, Moses knew how important it is to end your sermon with a story.  After multiple chapters of “do this and don’t do that,” Moses is coming to the climactic end of his sermon to Israel.  They are at the last stop in their wilderness wandering, standing at the brink of the…

Read More

Psalm 99

Transfiguration Sunday C

All these millennia later it is easy to read the Psalms, especially one like Psalm 99, and forget how at once scandalous and vaguely ridiculous they might appear to be.  Or at least how they could appear to some outsider to Israel who was looking in.  After all, in poems like this one, the psalmist…

Read More

Exodus 34:29-35

Transfiguration Sunday C

Fittingly, the season of Epiphany ends with Transfiguration Sunday.  With the possible exception of his resurrection, Christ’s Transfiguration was the most spectacular exhibition of his glory in his life.  Indeed, the Transfiguration was arguably even more glorious than the Resurrection, because Jesus resurrected body did not have about it the unmistakable glory of his transfigured…

Read More

Symposium 2019: Why We Still Hope / Por qué aún tenemos esperanza

Read More

Symposium 2019: The Heart of the Divine Parent

Read More

Symposium 2019: The Savior of Justice for the Needy

Read More

Symposium 2019: The God of Joy in the Midst of our Troubles

Read More

Symposium 2019: The Love of God for all People and Creatures

Read More

Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40

Epiphany 7C

Across the spectrum of poems in the Hebrew Psalter are prayers that fit most every occasion and season in life.  Laments, petitions, confessions, praise, thanksgiving; songs that fit happy days and songs that fit rotten days; lyric expressions of trust and bitter cries of abandonment and anger.  It’s all in there.  That’s an important thing…

Read More