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Luke 6:17-26 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 6C
Whereas Matthew gives us the famed “Sermon on the Mount,” Luke gives us much of that same material in what is often called the “Sermon on the Plain.” It’s difficult to know whether this is the same sermon described in two different ways by two different evangelists or whether Jesus had a few sermons in…
Psalm 1 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 6C
Few of us do what many monastic and other traditions have done in history with the Psalms: namely, read them straight through and in order. Instead we bob and weave our way through the Psalms, picking and choosing to read this Psalm or another for no particular rhyme or reason. And so it’s easy to…
1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 6C
Few things are sadder than the sight of people who place their hopes in something that can’t deliver that for which they hope. Think, for example, about the sad specter of people lined up to buy lottery tickets, pinning their hopes for wealth on a generally worthless piece of paper. Or think about terminally ill…
Jeremiah 17:5-10 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 6C
It is hard to see why this text was chosen by the Lectionary for this Sixth Sunday of Epiphany, except that its “blessed/cursed” formulary sounds much like Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, which is the Gospel reading for today (Luke 6:17-26 and see the reading from Psalm 1). But there’s nothing here about the revelation…
Commentary posted on February 11, 2019
Epiphany 6C Sermon Commentary
The Epiphany 6C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 6:17-26 from the Lectionary Gospel; Jeremiah 17:5-10 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 1 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: OT Lectionary: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 5 (Lord’s Day 2)