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??Lent 2 • Luke 13:31–35 • February 21, 2016
By Paul Sieveking This week’s lessons are confrontational. The Old Testament lesson is a confrontation between Jeremiah and the people of Judah. In the Gospel we…
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Transfiguration Sunday • Luke 9:28–36 • February 7, 2016
By Mark Rockenbach In the beginning God said, “Let there be light” (Gn 1:3) and there was light. The voice of God called into existence…
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Epiphany 4 • Luke 4:31–44 • January 31, 2016
By Paul R. Raabe This gospel lesson records part of Jesus’s Galilean ministry, after he went down from Nazareth to Capernaum. Here we see Jesus teaching,…
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Epiphany 3 • Luke 4:16–30 • January 24, 2016
By David Peter This text is appropriate for reflection early in the Epiphany season for several reasons. First, it reports one of Jesus’s first acts…
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Meet the Professor: Joel Elowsky (Part 1)
Prof. Elowsky teaches historical theology and is director of the Center for the Study of Early Christian Texts.
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Epiphany 2 • John 2:1–11 • January 17, 2016
By David I. Lewis Introduction Today’s gospel lesson records the beginning of the miraculous signs (αρχη των σημειων) which Jesus did as recorded in the…
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Reading Luther in China
Won Yong Ji, Hank Rowold, and “Letting Luther speak Chinese.”
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Baptism of our Lord • Luke 3:15–22 • January 10, 2016
By Robert Kolb I am not particularly fond of John the Baptist. It is not his strange clothes or his strange diet that puts me…