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John 6:51-58 Sermon Commentary
Proper 15B
If you’re using the questions/objections to belief structure that I laid out last week, this week’s question from John 6 is: “How can he give us his flesh to eat?” The challenge: God offends us. When the people asked that question to each other, they were offended at the thought of even being associated with…
Psalm 34:9-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 15B
It is not at all clear to me precisely the thinking behind dedicating three August Sundays to a single psalm. Preachers are challenged enough this month on the Gospel side of things with five weeks’ worth of sermons from John 6, all pretty much on the same theme. But now we are getting a triplet…
1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 15B
My wife tells me I think too much about The Godfather, and if you have been paying weekly attention to these sermon commentaries of late, then you know this is indeed the second time in as many weeks that I have mentioned Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark 1974 film. But really, even more than last week’s…
Ephesians 5:15-20 Sermon Commentary
Proper 15B
Near the middle of this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson the apostle summons his readers to “understand what the Lord’s will is” (17b). In a letter that he soaks with grace, this may be among the biggest challenges he sets before God’s Ephesian adopted sons and daughters. Paul spends much of the first part of his letter…
Commentary posted on August 9, 2021
Proper 15B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 15B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for John 6:51-58 from the Lectionary Gospel; I Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 34:9-14 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Ephesians 5:15-20 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Gospel: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 79 (Lord’s Day 29)