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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 hear of the confrontation between Jesus and…
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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 not only light, but also water, land,…
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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, casting out demons, and healing the sick.…
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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 of his public ministry. Second, it is…
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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 Gospel of John: Jesus changes gallons of…
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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 off. I know lots of people with…
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