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Psalm 111
Epiphany 4B
You don’t have to read many sermons to notice that at least some pastors are vulnerable to a kind of moralism that focuses on the “do’s” and “do not’s” of the Christian faith. We sometimes want to leap right to what God wants people to do before contemplating who that God is and what God…
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Epiphany 4B
Talk about your wheel within a wheel (and perhaps within yet another wheel at that!) As Robert Jenson has pointed out, Deuteronomy is the one part of the Bible that is itself presented as a sermon. So when a pastor preaches on Deuteronomy, she is already doing a sermon based on another sermon. But now…
Psalm 62:5-12
Epiphany 3B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider The author of Psalm 62 is clearly under some kind of duress whose cause he hints at, but doesn’t specifically identify. That lack of specificity makes this psalm’s sentiment something to which anyone under some kind of duress can relate. Whether what harasses us is individual, communal or even…
Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Epiphany 3B
It’s Round 2 between Yahweh and Jonah. The call to preach gets re-issued and if in Round 1 Jonah walked the opposite direction from Nineveh, this time he heads straight for it. But even well before you get to the petulant, angry Jonah of chapter 4, you just know his heart’s not in this thing….
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
Epiphany 2B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider The poet begins by professing, O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. In doing so she recognizes that God knows human beings perfectly. So the Lord doesn’t just know when people get up and when they sit down. God even knows our most secret thoughts. The…
1 Samuel 3:1-20
Epiphany 2B
Comments and Observations Over the last quarter-century, audio, visual, and computer technology has advanced more rapidly than our ability to prevent these gizmos from taking over the minds of our youth (and of some of us not-so-young too!!). Not so long ago, parents who wanted to monitor what their kids saw or listened to had…
Symposium 2012: Psalm 103
This sermon was preached in the closing worship service of the Calvin Symposium on Worship on Saturday, January 28, 2012.
The God-Forsaken God
Meditation for Holy Week on Psalm 22 by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. at the Calvin College Chapel on April 11, 2006. Used by permission of the Calvin College Chapel.
Symposium 2012: Psalm 13, How Long
Preached on Friday, January 27, at the 2012 Symposium on Worship.
Symposium 2012: Psalm 113
Preached on Friday, January 27, at the 2012 Symposium on Worship.
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