Home »
Colossians 1:1-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
Elements of this week’s Epistolary Lesson are faintly reminiscent of Huck Finn’s experience with prayer. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck recounts how his foster mother, Miss Watson, tried to teach him to pray. “Miss Watson … took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray…
Psalm 25:1-10 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
In his book years ago The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom lamented the decline of true education in this nation’s colleges and universities. Bloom decried the way many professors had dispensed with the traditional canons of literature in favor of whatever was trendy and vogue. He mourned the fact that critical thinking and…
Luke 10:25-37 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
Boundaries and rules can be good for us. Take the ten commandments: they help us put boundaries on our own actions for the sake of others as well as ourselves. In fact, all of God’s laws ought to be understood as helping to frame a picture of how we can live in order to discover…
Amos 7:7-17 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
It just doesn’t pay to tell a prophet to shut up. Things tend to get worse. Or at least that is so with a true prophet of God. Hucksters, fakes, charlatans can be intimidated. They will flee when threatened. They will say nicer things for a price. But not so the true prophets of God…
Commentary posted on July 4, 2022
Proper 10C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 10C Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Luke 10:25-37 from the Lectionary Gospel; Amos 7:7-17 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 25:1-10 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Colossians 1:1-14 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 34 (Lord’s Day 13)