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Matthew 5:1-12 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 4A
Suppose you could combine the personality traits of the Beatitudes and put them all into one person. What would Mr. or Miss Beatitude look like? Well, he would be consistently kind and yet also a bit shy, shunning the limelight. He would always downplay his own actions by claiming they were never enough to achieve…
Psalm 15 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 4A
In the Gospel sermon commentary for this Year A Sunday we wondered what a person would be like if you could combine all of the traits of Jesus’s Beatitudes into one individual. What would Mr. or Miss Beatitude look like? Now in Psalm 15 we see something similar: what would a person be like if…
1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 4A
In a fine sermon commentary on this text (from which I drew numerous ideas for this commentary), Scott Hoezee suggests that there’s a danger in spending as much time in church and around Christians as some preachers and teachers do. It’s that this whole Christianity business all starts to make too much sense to us….
Micah 6:1-8 Sermon Commentary
Epiphany 4A
In the midst of the glory of Epiphany we encounter this sobering and bracing text about God’s lawsuit against his sinful people. How is this an Epiphany text? The only connection I could find lies in that little word “showed” in verse 8. After the whole court proceeding laid out in verses 1-7, God reveals…
Commentary posted on January 27, 2020
Epiphany 4A Sermon Commentary
The Epiphany 4A Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Matthew 5:1-12 from the Lectionary Gospel; Micah 6:1-8 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 15 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 39 (Lord’s Day 15)