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Luke 14:1, 7-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17C
Tell any average child that she is forbidden to look at pages 67-82 of the book sitting on the coffee table in the living room and you can be absolutely certain that the first chance that child gets, she’s going to whisk that book to her room and turn directly to page 67! (I mean,…
Psalm 112 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17C
Very often the Psalms are actually a form of beatitude. Psalm 1 sets the tone: “Blessed is the one who does not walk with the wicked.” Beatitudes—including the most famous ones of them all from Matthew 5—are very often blessings spoken over people whose lives the rest of the world may not deem to be…
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17C
Though the lectionary epistle cuts out the middle verses of this section, the ones we are assigned today tell the church what to do in order to stay together through hardship. If you believe that the text of Hebrews is a sermon, then just minutes earlier we heard the preacher remind the congregation about their…
Jeremiah 2:4-13 Sermon Commentary
Proper 17C
Last week our study of Jeremiah’s call to ministry gave us the historical setting of his work. Jeremiah prophesied during the last days of the southern Kingdom, after the northern Kingdom had been dragged away by the Assyrian armies. Now Judah was now facing the same fate at the hands of the newly emergent Babylonian…
Commentary posted on August 26, 2019
Proper 17C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 17C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 14:1,7-14 from the Lectionary Gospel; Jeremiah 2:4-13 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 112 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 108 (Lord’s Day 41)