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Mark 1:9-15 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
Lent begins in the wilderness. And it’s not a terribly safe place to be all things being equal. Some years ago after a seminar I was attending in Tucson, Arizona, wrapped up around the noon hour, my wife and I decided to check out a nearby National Park. We took a big bottle of water…
Psalm 25:1-10 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
Psalm 25 is widely considered to be an ugly duckling among the Psalms. At first (and second and third) reading, it seems to lack cohesion and logical progression. But like the proverbial ugly duckling, there’s something beautiful here waiting to be discovered. It begins when one reads the Hebrew text and discovers that we have…
1 Peter 3:18-22 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
This is a perfectly good passage selection for the Lectionary but it does carve this a bit out of context. If you look closely and glance just above where verse 18 starts, then you will see that the main thrust of this part of 1 Peter—like a good bit of the letter—ties in with our…
Genesis 9:8-17 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
21st century society seems to largely believe that people have the world and its future squarely in our own hands. They claim that if we don’t somehow make history turn out right, it simply won’t happen. Yet experience suggests that if it’s up to people to make things right, we’ve got real trouble on our…
Commentary posted on February 12, 2018
Lent 1B Sermon Commentary
The Lent 1B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Mark 1:9-15 from the Lectionary Gospel; Genesis 9:8-17 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 25:1-10 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Peter 3:18-22 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 37 (Lord’s Day 15)