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Luke 24:36-48 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
Comments and Observations The end of Luke’s Gospel sums it all up pretty well. In swift strokes of Luke’s quill, we move from Easter Sunday evening directly to the Ascension of Jesus (just beyond the bounds of this lection). We learn from Luke’s other New Testament contribution, Acts, that Jesus lingered in physical form for…
Psalm 4 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider We’ve all said, if not shouted it in one form or another: “Help!” It’s the cry of someone who’s in the kind of distress that plagues Psalm 4’s author. While all sorts of distress may prompt such a call, in this psalm’s case it’s lies and falsehood. Some scholars…
1 John 3:1-7 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
Comments and Observations As I meditated on these words, two pictures from my last church came to mind. I saw 50 fresh faced, neatly dressed girls, ranging in age from 8 to 13, sitting behind me in the choir loft as I preached from this text. This was on a Sunday that honored those girls. …
Acts 3:12-19 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
Similar to what Jesus taught him and the other disciples at the end of Luke 24 (the Gospel lection for this same week in the Year B Lectionary), Peter in Acts 3 suggests that the healing of the crippled beggar—who was even then still hanging on Peter’s pant leg—is less a startling, previously unheard-of event…
Commentary posted on April 13, 2015
Easter 3B Sermon Commentary
The Easter 3B Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Luke 24: 36-48 from the Lectionary Gospel; Acts 3:12-19 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 4 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 John 3:1-7 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Old Testament Lectionary: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 47 (Lord’s Day 18)