Encountering Luke Both Luke and Matthew expand the very concise temptation scene in Mark (1:12-13) to a fully developed dramatic narrative, complete with three temptations and the … read more

Encountering Luke This is a tough text to understand. Within the space of a few verses we move from heaven to hell, from praise to fury, from a positive, perhaps even enthusiastic … read more

Encountering Luke This passage describes the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, complete with the transcript of an inaugural sermon preached in his hometown synagogue in… read more

Preachers sometime shy away from preaching on the letters of the New Testament. There are a number of reasons why this is so. The lectionary tilts toward the… read more

Recently my wife and I were biking down a two-lane back road that winds through the forests and cornfields of rural Maryland. As we went around a bend, we saw on the side of… read more

In the heat of the summer of 1922, a thirty-six-year-old part-time professor of theology by the name of Karl Barth delivered one of the most remarkable speeches about preaching… read more