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Luke 24:36-48 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
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 a good forty…
Psalm 4 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
The superscription of Psalm 4 tells us that this individual prayer was always intended to be used with musical accompaniment in a service of public worship. That’s how the church has used it for centuries now. Long ago, the monastic movements noticed the references to sleep in both Psalm 3 and 4 and have bracketed…
1 John 3:1-7 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
It keeps coming up like a bad burp. So much of 1 John is lyric. Few passages talk better about the meaning of love than ones you can find in John’s first epistle. The opening verses of this third chapter likewise are simply gorgeous, waxing eloquent on the love lavished on us by God our…
Acts 3:12-19 Sermon Commentary
Easter 3B
When our family visited China a number of years ago, my wife had a hard time keeping up with our sons who all stand over 6 feet 4 inches tall. So we’d often walk a few steps behind them. As we did so, we lost count of how many people passed them, turned around and…
Commentary posted on April 9, 2018
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)