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Luke 5:1-11 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 5C
We’ve come to call it “the Holy Land.” From the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the country of Jordan in the east, from Syria in the north to the Sinai in the south travel companies, tour groups, and tourists treat this piece of Middle Eastern real estate as a unity. It’s where Jesus walked…
Psalm 138 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 5C
Our prayer life should be our autobiography, C.S. Lewis once observed. But that is also why Lewis thought the Hebrew Psalter was such a fitting prayer book since it contains prayers that fit a wide variety of life’s experiences. Were the 150 Psalms all in one particular emotional register, what help would it be for…
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 5C
In the Epistolary Lesson the Lectionary appoints for this Sunday Paul describes his theology of the resurrection. Yet he insists that the Corinthians’ confusion about it isn’t just one among many problems that he’s already addressed. Lack of clarity about the resurrection isn’t like confusion about, for example, sexuality, food offered to idols and lawsuits…
Isaiah 6:1-13 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 5C
Somewhere in my reading recently, I ran across this familiar rant about God’s invisibility. “If God really wants us to believe in him, why doesn’t he come out of hiding, you know, make himself visible, write in words across the sky, speak audibly so that everyone can hear his voice, do some miracle that would…
Commentary posted on February 4, 2019
Epiphany 5C Sermon Commentary
The Epiphany 5C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 5:1-11 from the Lectionary Gospel; Isaiah 6:1-13 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 138 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 41 (Lord’s Day 16)