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Psalm 147:12-20 Sermon Commentary
2nd Sunday after Christmast C
As we lurch into 2022 after another difficult year globally, we realize with a sense of startlement that we are technically now entering Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic. A couple years ago not a few of us hoped the worst of it would not last 3 weeks. Even 3 months seemed hard to fathom. …
Jeremiah 31:7-14 Sermon Commentary
2nd Sunday after Christmast C
You can’t accuse the Old Testament prophets of not being specific enough when it came to describing the blessings of God’s salvation! Sometimes believers today content themselves with generic or generalized descriptions of felicity in “heaven,” sometimes not advancing in their views of the New Creation much beyond the wispy, cloudy, ethereal realm that New…
Ephesians 1:3-14 Sermon Commentary
2nd Sunday after Christmast C
Few Scripture passages are theologically weightier than this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson. In fact, in an earlier commentary on it, Scott Hoezee remembers once asking the congregation he served about how it would feel if he were from then to on base every sermon on Ephesians 1:3-14. He notes that while most would call it a…
John 1:(1-9) 10-18 Sermon Commentary
2nd Sunday after Christmast C
There is overwhelming emphasis in this passage on how things “from above” are received here on earth. In the advent season, we remembered that we are actively waiting to receive the gift of the Word in full, and that God is actively at work to bring about his Kingdom on earth. In John’s prologue, it’s…
Commentary posted on December 27, 2021
2nd Sunday after Christmast C Sermon Commentary
For Christmas 2C of the Revised Common Lectionary, find ideas and illustrations in sermon commentary for John 1(1-9), 10-18, Jeremiah 31:7-14, Psalm 147:12-20, and Ephesians 1:3-14
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Gospel: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 33 (Lord’s Day 13)