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Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17B
Comments and Observations After observing the Nazis in action for a while, the German philosopher and writer Heinrich Heine once said that you can count on it: wherever they burn books, they will sooner or later burn people. Maybe a similar or related observation could be made from what we read in Mark 7: wherever…
Psalm 15 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Psalm 15 reflects on the intimate relationship between ethics and worship. In one sense it’s a wisdom psalm that explores how to live wisely, how to order one’s life according God’s will and purposes. However, some scholars suggest that Psalm 15 was also an “entrance liturgy” that Israel’s priests…
James 1:17-27 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17B
Comments and Observations The millennial generation in your church will love the Epistle of James, because it presents the Christian faith as less of a head trip than as a way of life. Indeed, James is so filled with practical instructions for Christian living that Martin Luther famously called it a “right strawy epistle… for…
Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17B
Comments and Observations: Are the people who put together the Common Lectionary winking at us this week? The Lectionary across its three-year cycle contains exactly ONE text from the Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) and this is it. But it occurs on the same Year B Sunday when the Gospel lection is…
Commentary posted on August 24, 2015
Proper 17B Sermon Commentary