Exodus 3:1-15
Proper 17A
[…] the most awesome theophany in the history of redemption. I say that because it is the beginning of the main act of redemption in the Old Testament, namely, God’s liberation of his people from the house of bondage. Yes, God had appeared and spoken to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, thus inaugurating the covenant partnership […]
Acts 4:5-12
Easter 4B
[…] Peter’s bold reply to Israel’s religious leaders put Acts 4’s confrontation in context. In verse 7, after all, the religious leaders ask him, “By what power or name did you do this?” (Italics added). What’s more, in verse 9, Peter refers to “an act of kindness shown to a cripple and … how he […]
Lent 2B: The Lenten Fork
[…] a seat in the bloody muck at the foot of a cross. You see, this entire episode took place in the region of Caesarea, “Caesarville.” The very name reminded the Jews of their status as an occupied land. The Romans were everywhere as were reminders that the Jews ultimately lived in the shadow of […]
Matthew 28:16-20
Trinity Sunday A
[…] us the fullness of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and asks us to move forward into still more ministry as we witness to his Name and to his gospel to the ends of the earth. It was not easy then to be a follower of the Triune God. It’s not easy […]
Matthew 28:16-20
Trinity Sunday A
[…] us the fullness of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and asks us to move forward into still more ministry as we witness to his Name and to his gospel to the ends of the earth. It was not easy then to be a follower of the Triune God. It’s not easy […]
Psalm 113
Proper 20C
[…] “stoops down,” “raises,” “lifts,” “seats,” settles.” There is a four-fold repetition of that call to praise in the first stanza and a conventional three-fold repetition of “the name of the Lord.” No wonder it was one of Jesus’ favorite Psalms. Well, that may be overstating the case a bit, but there is good historical […]
Philippians 2:5-11
Palm Sunday B
[…] this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson can see allusions in this to Christ’s ascension to the heavenly realm. There, the apostle continues in verse 9b, God “gave him the name that is above every name .” Preachers might want to point to Paul’s repeated use of Greek adjective hyper as a sign of the supremacy to […]
Acts 4:5-12
Easter 4B
This Sunday’s text picks up in the middle of a story in which a man is healed in the name of Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit. This becomes the platform for gospel proclamation in the name of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. “Salvation is found in no […]
Isaiah 43:1-7
Epiphany 1C
[…] the greatest manifestations of his glory. This Old Testament reading was undoubtedly chosen because of its baptismal echoes of passing through the waters and being called by name. In the same way that Isaiah 60 anticipated Matthew 2 last week, Isaiah 43 reads like an early script of Luke 3 (and the other synoptic […]
Luke 16:19-31
Proper 21C
[…] at bringing these ancient stories up-to-date through vivid contemporary language and imagery. Sometimes Capon also did what those of us who preach occasionally do as well: he’d name the characters. And so in the Parable of the Prodigal Son maybe we’ll call the older brother Morris such that at the end of the parable […]
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