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Mark 1:9-15 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
Comments, Observations, and Questions: 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…
Psalm 25:1-10 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
Notes and Observations The Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has suggested one helpful approach to preaching and teaching the psalms is to ask what an “anti-psalm” might look like. What, in other words, might be the opposite tone of that expressed by a particular psalm, whether it expresses trust, praise, complaint or something else? So…
1 Peter 3:18-22 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
Comments, Observations, and Questions As I move through the lectionary year again and again, I often think that someone needs to revise the Revised Common Lectionary because it can be so repetitive. Take this text as case in point. Just 10 months ago, this was the text for the Fifth Sunday of the Easter season. …
Genesis 9:8-17 Sermon Commentary
Lent 1B
Sample Sermon As “Bible Stories” go, the story about Noah’s Ark has few peers. Children love this story. Kids enjoy singing all those “fun” songs about the arky-arky. They have a good time playing with the various toys and puzzles that tie in with Noah’s ark. My in-laws, for instance, once had a lovely ark…
Commentary posted on February 16, 2015
Lent 1B Sermon Commentary