Frederick Buechner Resources
Indexed by Scripture
Resources reside at FrederickBuechner.com.
Genesis
- Genesis 1-3 - Humankind
- Genesis 1:1-4 - Darkness, Zero
- Genesis 1:27 - Female
- Genesis 2:3 - Sabbath
- Genesis 2:15 - You
- Genesis 2:18-22 - Female
- Genesis 2-3 - Adam, Nakedness
- Genesis 3:1 - 4:16 - Eve
- Genesis 3:8-21 - Psychotherapy, Yahweh
- Genesis 3:21- The Good Book as a Good Book
- Genesis 2:19 - Buechner on Animals
- Genesis 4:1-16 - Cain
- Genesis 4:9 - Questions
- Genesis 6-9 - Noah
- Genesis 6:11-18- A Sprig of Hope
- Genesis 9:18-27 - Ham
- Genesis 12-18; 22 - Abraham
- Genesis 16 - Hagar
- Genesis 17:1-7, 15-17 -Abraham, Sarah, and Laughter
- Genesis 17:15 - 18:15 -- Faith
- Genesis 18:1-15 - Isaac
- Genesis 19:1-29 - Lot
- Genesis 21 - Hagar
- Genesis 21:1-22:19 - Isaac
- Genesis 24-27 - Rebekah
- Genesis 25-27, 33 - Esau, Isaac, Jacob
- Genesis 27:18-27 - The Magnificent Defeat
- Genesis 3:21- The Good Book as a Good Book
- Genesis 27:27 - The Magnificent Defeat
- Genesis 29-31 - Laban, Rachel
- Genesis 32:22-31 - The Magnificent Defeat
- Genesis 32:24-30 - Jacob's Wrestle
- Genesis 34 - Dinah
- Genesis 35:27-29 - Isaac
- Genesis 37-45 - Joseph and His Brothers
- Genesis 38:1-10 - Onan
Exodus
- Exodus 3:1-6 - Hope
- Exodus 3:5 - Incarnation
- Exodus 3:14 - Yahweh - The Good Book as a Good Book
- Exodus 4:1-13 - Prophet
- Exodus 13:21-22 - Fire
- Exodus 19:3-6 - Growing Up
- Exodus 20:12 - Parents
- Exodus 32:1-4 - Aaron and the Golden Calf
- Exodus 33:11 - Friends
- Exodus 33:20 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
- Exodus 33:23 - The Good Book as a Good Book
- Exodus 34:29-35- The Good Book as a Good Book
- Exodus 40:4 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
- Exodus 42:3 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
Leviticus
- Leviticus 19:2- The Good Book as a Good Book
- Leviticus 26:12 - Covenant
Numbers
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 6:4-7 - Love
Joshua
Judges
- Judges 4-5 - Deborah
- Judges 4-5 - Jael
- Judges 8:22 - Gideon
- Judges 16 - Delilah
- Judges 17-18 - Micah
Ruth
- Ruth - Ruth
- Ruth 1:16-17 - On Marriage Equality - The Word of Life
- Ruth 2:10-17 - Ruth
- Ruth 3:1-5 - Ruth
- Ruth 4:13-17 - Ruth
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 8-12 - Samuel
- 1 Samuel 8:4-20 - Samuel
- 1 Samuel 9-30 - Saul
- 1 Samuel 11:14-15 - Samuel
- 1 Samuel 15 - Agag
- 1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49 - David and Goliath
- 1 Samuel 17:4-55 - Goliath
- 1 Samuel 19 - Jonathan
- 1 Samuel 28 - Witch of Endor - The Good Book as a Good Book
- 1 Samuel 31:4 - Suicide
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 1 - Jonathan
- 2 Samuel 5-6 - David
- 2 Samuel 6:14-21 - Play
- 2 Samuel 9 - 19 - Mephibosheth
- 2 Samuel 11:1-15 - Uriah the Hittite
- 2 Samuel 11-12 - Bathsheba
- 2 Samuel 11:26 - 12:13a - Nathan
- 2 Samuel 12:1-15 - Nathan, Prophet
- 2 Samuel 13 - 19 - Absalom
- 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 - Absalom
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 1-2 - Abishag
- 1 Kings 3-11 - Solomon
- 1 Kings 5:9 - Hiram
- 1 Kings 10:1-13 - Queen of Sheba
- 1 Kings 17:6 - Buechner on Animals
- 1 Kings 18 - Elijah
- 1 Kings 18-19 - Elijah
- 1 Kings 21 - Ahab, Naboth and Jezebel
- 1 Kings 21-22 - Ahab
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 2:23-25 - Elisha
- 2 Kings 5 - Naaman
- 2 Kings 9:30-36 - Ahab
- 2 Kings 2:23-25 - Prophet
- 2 Kings 25:7 - Nebuchadnezzaar
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 16:1, 7-12 - A Room Called Remember
- 1 Chronicles 32-33 - A Room Called Remember
2 Chronicles
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah - Nehemiah
Esther
- Ester 1-2 - Vashti
- Esther 7 - Xerxes, Esther, Haman, and Mordecai
Job
- Job - Job, Theodicy
- Job 12:7-10 - Buechner on Animals
- Job 23:1-17 - Two Narrow Words
- Job 38:1-7, (34-41) - Job
- Job 38:7 -The Great Dance
Psalms
- Psalm 1 - Law
- Psalm 19:1 - Glory
- Psalm 23 - Disaster -- Feed My Sheep - The Clown in the Belfry
- Psalm 24:10 - King
- Psalm 29 - Beauty
- Psalm 34:8 - Smell
- Psalm 37:7-9 - Anger
- Psalm 42 - Beauty
- Psalm 46 - Meditation
- Psalm 62:1 - The Truth
- Psalm 63:1- Water
- Psalm 78:1-4 - The Truth of Stories
- Psalm 98:4-6 - Music
- Psalm 103:6, 8 - Justice
- Psalm 104 - Play
- Psalm 109:1 - The Truth
- Psalm 118 - Today
- Psalm 126:5-6 - Tears
- Psalm 131 - Depression
- Psalm 137 - Loneliness
- Psalm 139 - Secrets, Yahweh
- Psalm 139:7 - Questions
- Psalm 139:8 - Hell
- Psalm 148 - Praise - The Good Book as a Good Book
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes - Koheleth
- Ecclesiastes 1:2 - Vanity
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 - Jobs
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 - Questions
Song of Solomon
- Song of Solomon 8:6-7 - Buechner on Homosexuality
Isaiah
- Isaiah 2:9- Paul Sends His Love
- Isaiah 6 - Isaiah
- Isaiah 6:1-9 - The Calling of Voices
- Isaiah 9:2-7 - Delay - Come and See
- Isaiah 9:6-7 - Messiah
- Isaiah 11:1 - The Good Book as a Good Book
- Isaiah 14:12 - Lucifer
- Isaiah 30:15 - Quiet
- Isaiah 40:31 - Waiting for Christ
- Isaiah 52:7 - Feet
- Isaiah 52:14 - Ugliness
- Isaiah 53:2, 77 - The Two Stories
- Isaiah 53:3 - Prophet
- Isaiah 55:6-9 - My Ways Are Not Thy Ways
- Isaiah 57:15 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
- Isaiah 51:15 - Eternity, Yahweh
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
- Daniel 3 - Nebuchadnezzar - The Good Book as a Good Book
- Daniel 4 - Daniel
- Daniel 5 - Belshazzar
Hosea
- Hosea 1:3 - Gomer
- Hosea 11:1-11 - Hosea and Gomer
- Hosea 11:8-9 - Covenant
- Hosea 11:8-9 - Gomer
Joel
Amos
Jonah
Micah
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
- Zechariah 8:3-5 - Play
Malachi
Matthew
- Matthew - Matthew
- Matthew 1:23 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
- Matthew 1-2 - Joseph
- Matthew 2:1-2 - The Birth
- Matthew 2:1-12 - The Wise Man
- Matthew 2 - Herod the Great
- Matthew 3:1-17 - John the Baptist
- Matthew 4:4 - The Calling of Voices
- Matthew 5:1-12 - Beatitudes
- Matthew 5:20 - Righteousness
- Matthew 5:21-32 - Law of Love
- Matthew 5:43-48 - Enemy
- Matthew 5:48 - Air for Two Voices
- Matthew 6:5-15 - Lord's Prayer
- Matthew 6:12 - Forgiveness
- Matthew 7:9-14 - Prayer
- Matthew 8:5-34 - Calming the Storm
- Matthew 10:1-8 - The Church
- Matthew 10:16 - Innocence
- Matthew 10:39 - Salvation
- Matthew 11:1-12 - John the Baptist
- Matthew 11:28 - Poverty- The Seeing Heart
- Matthew 12:48 - Mary
- Matthew 13:34 - The Truth of Stories
- Matthew 15:11 - Messiah
- Matthew 14:1-12 - Herod Antipas
- Matthew 14:28-31 - Peter
- Matthew 16:15-23 - Peter
- Matthew 16:26 - Questions
- Matthew 16:1-6 - Transfiguration
- Matthew 18:1-4 - Children
- Matthew 18:6 - Sermon
- Matthew 19:16-22 - Adolescence
- Matthew 19:27-30 - Peter
- Matthew 22:40 - Law of Love
- Matthew 24:14-30, 11:23 - Adolescence and the Stewardship of Pain
- Matthew 24:32-33- The Kingdom of God
- Matthew 24:44 - Advent
- Matthew 24:36-43 - Second Coming
- Matthew 25:31-46 - Second Coming, Sheep from Goats
- Matthew 25:35-36 - A Room Called Remember
- Matthew 25:35-36 - The Secret in the Dark
- Matthew 25:40 - The Church
- Matthew 27:3-10 - Judas, Suicide
- Matthew 27:15-26 - Pilate
- Matthew 27:46 - Cross
- Matthew 28 - Empty Tomb
- Matthew 28:9 - Feet
Mark
- Mark - Mark
- Mark 1:1-15 - The Kingdom of God
- Mark 1:21-26 - The Law of Love
- Mark 2:17 - Healing
- Mark 4:35-41 - Calming the Storm - A 250th Birthday Party
- Mark 5:21-24 - Jairus' Daughter
- Mark 5:34 (KJV) - A Room Called Remember
- Mark 5:35-43 - Funeral
- Mark 6:14-29 - Herod Antipas
- Mark 6:17-22 - Salome
- Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 - Healing
- Mark 7:1-8 - Pharisees
- Mark 9:2-9 - Transfiguration
- Mark 9:14-29 - Prayer
- Mark 9:24 (KJV) - Faith and Fiction
- Mark 10:2-9 - Law of Love
- Mark 10:13-16 - Becoming Like a Child
- Mark 10:17-25 - Money
- Mark 10:18 - Saint
- Mark 10:46-52 - Bartimaeus
- Mark 15:2-5 - The Truth of Stories
- Mark 15:6-15 - Barabbas
- Mark 16 - Empty Tomb
Luke
- Luke 1:26-35 - Gabriel
- Luke 2:1 - Caesar Augustus
- Luke 2:2 - Quirinius
- Luke 2:7 - The Innkeeeper - The Birth
- Luke 2:8-12 - The Face in the Sky
- Luke 2:8-18 - The Shepherd - The Birth
- Luke 2:22-35 - Simeon
- Luke 2:29 - Love
- Luke 2:41-51 - Joseph
- Luke 2:48 - Mary
- Luke 3:1-22 - John the Baptist
- Luke 3:23-38 - Joseph
- Luke 4:1-13 - Lent
- Luke 4:16-19 - Prophet
- Luke 6:19 - Touch
- Luke 6:21 -The Great Dance
- Luke 6:21-25 - Comedy
- Luke 6:24-25 - The News of the Day
- Luke 7:11-17 - "You Do Not Need to Understand Healing to be Healed"
- Luke 7:47 - Mary Magdalene
- Luke 9:2 - Minister
- Luke 9:28-36 - Transfiguration
- Luke 9:38-43 - The Power of God and the Power of Man
- Luke 10:1-3 - Hands for the Harvest
- Luke 10:25 - Questions
- Luke 10:25-37 - Neighbor
- Luke 10:29 - Questions
- Luke 11:1-13 - Ask For It
- Luke 11:5-8 - Prayer
- Luke 13:31-35 - Herod Antipas
- Luke 14:1, 7-14 - Humility
- Luke 15:1-7 - One Lost Sheep
- Luke 15:11b-32 - Parables as Comedy
- Luke 17:21- The Kingdom of God
- Luke 18:1-8 - Prayer
- Luke 19:1-10 - Zaccheus
- Luke 19:35-44 - The Things That Make for Peace
- Luke 19:37-40 - Hope
- Luke 19:41-43 - Earth, Remember
- Luke 20:37-38 - God of the Living
- Luke 21:25-31 - Waiting / Be Patient
- Luke 23:1-12 - Herod Antipas
- Luke 23:4 - Pilate
- Luke 23:27 - Conversion
- Luke 23:32-43 - The Sign by the Highway
- Luke 23:39 - Messiah
- Luke 23:42-43 - Heaven - A Room Called Remember
- Luke 23:50-56 - Joseph of Arimathea
- Luke 24:13-31 - Recognizing
- Luke 24 - Empty Tomb
John
- John 1:1-16 - Air for Two Voices
- John 1:1-18 - Word, Yahweh
- John 1:1-34 - John the Baptist
- John 1:14 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
- John 1:14 - Christmas
- John 1:14 - Incarnation
- John 1:14 - John the Evangelist
- John 1:42 - Peter
- John 1:43-46 - Come and See
- John 1:43-51 - Nathaniel
- John 1:45-51 - Delay
- John 15:11 - Joy
- John 2:1-11 - The Wedding at Cana
- John 2:1-11 - Marriage
- John 3:1-21 - Nicodemus, Yahweh
- John 3:16 - Born Again
- John 4:24 - Spirit
- John 6:35 - John the Evangelist
- John 6:51-58 - Bread
- John 8:10 - Light
- John 8:7-12 - John the Evangelist
- John 8:12 - Light
- John 8:31-32 - Escapism
- John 10:9-30 - John the Evangelist
- John 10:11-15 - Feed My Sheep
- John 11 - Lazarus
- John 11:25-26 - John the Evangelist
- John 11:47-50 - Caiaphas
- John 12:1-8 - Judas
- John 12:24-25 - Salvation
- John 13:5-11 - Peter
- John 13:21-30 - Judas
- John 13:33, 36 - Let Jesus Show
- John 13:33-35 - Bebb's Speech at Revonoc
- John 13:3-38 - Peter
- John 14:1-6 - Let Jesus Show
- John 14:6 - Christian
- John 14:1-7 - Thomas
- John 14:6 - The Truth - What It Means to Be a Christian
- John 14:27 - Peace
- John 15:11 -The Great Dance
- John 15:12 - Let Jesus Show
- John 15:12-15 - Friends
- John 18:1-12 - Judas
- John 18:33-38 - The Truth - The Good Book as a Good Book
- John 18:38 - Conversion - Questions - Pilate - - The Truth of Stories
- John 19:16-30 - Good Friday
- John 19:26-27 - Mary
- John 19:28 - Water
- John 19:38-42 - Nicodemus
- John 20 - Empty Tomb
- John 20:1-18 - Mary Magdalene
- John 20:11-18 - The Secret in the Dark
- John 20:19-29 - Thomas - The Seeing Heart
- John 20:26-29 - Conversion
- John 21:1-13 - Darkness - The Great Dance
- John 21:1-14 - Nathaniel
- John 21:5 - Air for Two Voices
- John 21:9 - Fire
- John 21:9-19 - Feed My Sheep - Peter
- John 21:15-17 -The Great Dance
Acts
- Acts 2:1-21 - Nickolet's Sermon Writing for Pentecost
- Acts 3:12-19 - Messiah
- Acts 5:1-11 - Ananias
- Acts 6-7 - Stephen
- Acts 8:5-24 - Simon Magus
- Acts 8:14-17 - Spirit
- Acts 8:28-49 - Conversion
- Acts 8:26-39 - Ethiopian Eunuch
- Acts 9:1-19 - Conversion
- Acts 16:16-34 - The Jailer
- Acts 20:9-12 - Eutychus
- Acts 22:20 - Stephen
- Acts 23:26 - 24:27 - Felix
- Acts 26:1-28 - Agrippa
- Acts 26:28 - Conversion
Romans
- Romans 5:1 - Justification
- Romans 5:1-5 - Hope
- Romans 6:23 - Sin
- Romans 5:6 - Paul
- Romans 7:15-25 - Paul
- Romans 7:19 - Alcoholics Anonymous
- Romans 8:3 - Questions
- Romans 8:26 - The Longing for Home
- Romans 8:31-39 - Paul
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 - Foolishness - Paul
- 1 Corinthians 1:27 - Minister
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 - Emmanuel - a Christmas Article
- 1 Corinthians 3:16 - Faith and Fiction
- 1 Corinthians 4:10 - Fool
- 1 Corinthians 9:16 - Sermon
- 1 Corinthians 11:24 - Memory
- 1 Corinthians 11:25 - Covenant
- 1 Corinthians 12:12-31- The Body of Christ
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 - Agape
- 1 Corinthians 15:14 - The Secret in the Dark
- 1 Corinthians 15:17-19 - Hope
2 Corinthians
- 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (NRSV) - Two Narrow Words
- 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 - The Two Stories
- 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 - The Longing for Home
- 2 Corinthians 11:24-27 - Paul
- 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 - Paul
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 - Second Coming
- 2 Corinthians 18:26 - Paul Sends His Love
Galatians
- Galatians 2:20 - Paul
- Galatians 3:23-29 - Female
- Galatians 3:28 - Racism
- Galatians 5:18-23 - The Fruit of the Spirit
- Galatians 5:22-23 - Paul
Ephesians
- Ephesians 2:1 - Paul
- Ephesians 2:1-9 - Grace
- Ephesians 4:11-13 - The Body of Christ
- Ephesians 4:13 - Purgatory, Eternal Life, Yahweh
- Ephesians 6:10-18 - The Two Battles
Philippians
- Phillippians 1:21 - Paul
- Philippians 3:12-4:7 - Message in the Stars
- Philippians 4:4 -The Great Dance
- Philippians 4:4-7 - Anxiety
Colossians
- Colossians 1:11-12 - Giving Thanks
- Colossians 1:19 - The Good Book as a Good Book
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
- 2 Thessalonians 3:13 - Press On
1 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 1:15 - Saint
- 1 Timothy 2:1-6a - Every One Of Us
- 1 Timothy 6:6-12 - Righteousness
- 1 Timothy 6:12 - Run with Perseverance
- 1 Timothy 6:12 - Game
2 Timothy
- 2 Timothy 2:11 - To Die With Him
Titus
Philemon
- Philemon - Sharing Your Faith, Onesimus
Hebrews
- Hebrews 10:11-22 - Covenant
- Hebrews 11:1 - Just Beyond Our Grasp
- Hebrews 11:1 - Faith
- Hebrews 11:3, 7-14 - Faith
- Hebrews 11:13-14 - Faith and Fiction
- Hebrews 11:14 -Travel
- Hebrews 12:1 - Game
- Hebrews 12:1-2 - Run with Perseverance
James
- James 3:13-16 - Envy
- James 5:7-10 - Be Patient
1 Peter
- 1 Peter 2:1-3, 9 - Growing Up
- 1 Peter 3:19-20 - Descent Into Hell
- 1 Peter 4:5-6 - Descent Into Hell
2 Peter
3 Peter
1 John
- 1 John 1:1-4, 3:14, 4:7 - The Word of Life
- 1 John 3:14 - Law, Toleration - The Newness of Things
- 1 John 4:8 - Yahweh
- 1 John 4:19 - Salvation
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation
- Revelation 8:1 - The Truth
- Revelation 12:1 - Queen of Heaven
- Revelation 19:14 - The Secret in the Dark
- Revelation 20:11 - Zero
- Revelation 21:2 - Incarnation
- Revelation 21:2-5 - Heaven
- Revelation 21:3-4 - The Kingdom of God
- Revelation 21:5 - The Good Book as a Good Book
- Revelation 21:6 - Yahweh
- Revelation 21:10, 22 - 22:5 - Light
- Revelation 21:19-21 - Jewels
- Revelation 22:20 - Second Coming, You