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John 6:35, 41-51 Sermon Commentary
Proper 14B
“Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert yet they died.” That’s what Jesus said and it’s a pretty easy verse to cruise past and not much ponder. I mean, of course those people died—in fact, they had died about 1,000 years ago!! And since no one even a millennium earlier had ever said manna…
Psalm 130 Sermon Commentary
Proper 14B
One of the strangest books I’ve ever read is The Trial/Das Urteil by the German author Franz Kafka. The book’s opening line starkly says, “Someone must have slandered Josef K. because even though he had done nothing bad, one morning he was suddenly arrested.” The police show up at his apartment before breakfast one day…
Ephesians 4:25-5:2 Sermon Commentary
Proper 14B
“Imitation” may be, as Charles Colton once famously wrote, “the sincerest of flattery.” However, some attempts at imitation may also be the sincerest of sheer folly. A son may, after all, flatter his mother by trying to successfully cook like she does. Who can, however, as Paul’s calls us in Ephesians 5:2, imitate God? Even…
2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 Sermon Commentary
Proper 14B
In the long story of God’s covenant relationship with his beloved but rebellious child Israel, the story of David and his beloved but rebellious child, Absalom, occupies 6 long and painful chapters. It is one of the most gripping and heart wrenching stories in all of literature. Indeed, it has been the inspiration for some…
Commentary posted on August 6, 2018
Proper 14B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 14B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for John 6:35, 41-51 from the Lectionary Gospel; 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 130 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Ephesians 4:25-5:2 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Gospel: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 76 (Lord’s Day 28)