Author: Administrador

I grew up in a home wherein virtually every room contained a publicly displayed Bible verse. Commonly, the words were embossed on paper or sewn into cloth and placed in a frame on a wall or a table where everyone who entered the room could see it. As I recall, they were drawn from familiar … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28 Commentary by Terence E. Fretheim”

Using a Creed as the basis for a sermon series might be viewed as a hybrid between the use of lectionary texts and developing a topical series. Week 1: July 12, 20151Preaching texts: John 1:1-16; 1 John 1:1-5Accompanying texts: Genesis 1:1-5, 1:26–2:4a Week 2: July 19, 2015Preaching text: John 3:1-21Accompanying texts: Acts 15:1-21; 1 Corinthians … Continue reading “The Creeds Commentary by James Howell”

Chapter 6 begins a new unit in Deuteronomy that runs until 11:32. Chapters 1-4 of the book set the stage by recounting key moments in Israel’s journey from Mount Horeb (Sinai) to the plains of Moab, across the Jordan from the long-promised land. Chapter 5 then re-presents the Decalogue (5:6-21; cf. Exodus 20:1-17) and discusses … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Commentary by Brent A. Strawn”

There’s no denying that Jesus was a good Jew. According to our Gospel reading for today, when asked which commandment was the greatest, he responded, as any faithful Jew would, by quoting the Shema: “Hear, O Israel! The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Commentary by Kathryn M. Schifferdecker”

Both the book of Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic movement that followed the precepts of the book vigorously resisted plurality. From the single shrine to the single priesthood, the desire to eradicate multiplicity and with it any room for theological innovation appears as a strong hallmark of Deuteronomy and its theological descendants. Naturally, this conventional view … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Commentary by Steed Davidson”

This week we’re talking about Law, and we have in our reading two texts that loom large in both Christian and Jewish theology: the Ten Commandments (obviously Law) and the Shema (more on that in a minute). You know the Ten Commandments, of course. You’ve heard them, memorized them, and perhaps even taught them to … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 5:1-22; 6:4-9 Commentary by Kathryn M. Schifferdecker”

From the beginning of the story of the exodus from Egypt, the narrative lectionary jumps directly to a moment forty years later, just before Moses’ death and the entrance of the Israelites into the promised land. Here the action pauses while Moses instructs the people, reminding them of all that their parents were commanded at … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 5:1-21; 6:4-9 Commentary by Patricia Tull”

Psalm 119:97 proclaims: “Oh, how I love your law!” This statement may seem strange to many Christians, especially those of us for whom the law has been contrasted with grace and described as something negative, oppressive, or obsolete. We cannot hear “law” without hearing “legalism,” and we throw them both out indiscriminately. Through a study … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Commentary by Sara Koenig”

Moses will never enter the land of promise. He will climb a mountain east of the Jordan, and from that height he will survey the wide and good land God is giving to Israel (Deuteronomy 3:27). And then he will die (4:22). He will never cross the river Jordan, and the children of the people … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Commentary by Anathea Portier-Young”

Readers of Deuteronomy need to be prepared to travel through time and in the process experience the value of James Russell Lowell’s assertion that “new occasions teach new duties.” The book of Deuteronomy invites its readers to hear Moses addressing them directly as if they are participants in the first crossing into the land. Yet … Continue reading “Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Commentary by Steed Davidson”