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Luke 9:28-36 Sermon Commentary
Last Epiphany C
Not for nothing are they called “Mountaintop Experiences”! In the Bible, when a story takes us up to a mountaintop, it’s a fair bet that something dramatic is going to happen—indeed, it’s a fair bet that something deeply revelatory is going to happen. Luke 9 is no exception. But the drama up there on that…
Psalm 99 Sermon Commentary
Last Epiphany C
All these millennia later it is easy to read the Psalms, especially one like Psalm 99, and forget how at once scandalous and vaguely ridiculous they might appear to be. Or at least how they could appear to some outsider to Israel who was looking in. After all, in poems like this one, the psalmist…
2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 Sermon Commentary
Last Epiphany C
Sometimes the lessons the Lectionary appoints for a particular Sunday seem about as loosely tied as some teenagers’ tennis shoes. On this Transfiguration Sunday, however, that’s not the case. It doesn’t take much work to recognize the themes that run through the Old Testament, Psalm, Gospel and Epistolary lessons. Each in its own way reflects…
Exodus 34:29-35 Sermon Commentary
Last Epiphany C
Fittingly, the season of Epiphany ends with Transfiguration Sunday. With the possible exception of his resurrection, Christ’s Transfiguration was the most spectacular exhibition of his glory in his life. Indeed, the Transfiguration was arguably even more glorious than the Resurrection, because Jesus resurrected body did not have about it the unmistakable glory of his transfigured…
Commentary posted on February 25, 2019
Last Epiphany C Sermon Commentary
The Last Epiphany C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 9:28-36 from the Lectionary Gospel; Exodus 34:29-35 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 99 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Corinthians 3:12 – 4:2 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Psalm: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 99 & 100 (Lord’s Day 36)