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Psalm 23

Easter 4B

Even though the RCL uses Psalm 23 on the Fourth Sunday of the Easter season in all three years, and even adds it to the Lenten readings in one year, the enterprising preacher should not despair when assigned this lovely piece of poetry yet again.  It is so rich that there is no end of…

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Psalm 23

Easter 4A

On this Fourth Sunday after Easter, all three years of the lectionary cycle have us reading Psalm 23.  No wonder some parts of the worldwide church call this Good Shepherd Sunday.  It is always good to revisit this beloved piece of pastoral poetry, but it does challenge the preacher and this writer, who wrote on…

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Psalm 23

Lent 4A

On the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we are given a tough assignment by the RCL: preach on Psalm 23, the best known, best loved text in the entire Bible.  Rolf Jacobsen summarizes the difficulty of such an assignment.  We can run the risk of trivializing the sublime.  Or we can turn the sermon into an…

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Psalm 23

Easter 4C

What a wonderful change of emphasis Psalm 23 brings to this season of Easter. For the second and third Sundays of the Easter season, the lectionary readings from the Psalms helped to praise and thank God for his work of salvation culminating in Christ’s resurrection. Now on this fourth Sunday after Easter, the lectionary picks…

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Psalm 23

Easter 4B

Comments and Observations Psalm 23 is so familiar, so ingrained in historic American culture that those who preach and teach may feel intimidated by it.  After all, it’s the psalm that characters as diverse as Katherine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn and the hip-hop artist Coolio in “Gangsta’s Paradise” utilize.  Pastors and others have also probably…

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Restoring the Soul

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I Have the Table Ready

from 2005

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