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Psalm 65:(1-8), 9-13 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10A
As I write this in July 2023, it feels at times like the world is on fire. Canada certainly has been on fire for a good bit in 2023. Canadian wildfires burning thousands of miles away have been blanketing with smoke cities as far away as Washington D.C. and also in the Midwest, giving us…
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10A
This week we transition to parables, Jesus’s stories that bend and challenge our understanding with essential truths shared through images that spark our imaginations. The parable of the sower and the seed is a teaching about how—or even if—we come to understand these things of God and his Kingdom. We begin with the sower, or…
Romans 8:1-11 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10A
Few things offend 21st century western sensibilities more than what our culture perceives of as closed minds. The mirror image of that is the high value that many of our contemporaries at least claim to attach to open minds. Perhaps especially North Americans and Europeans claim to abhor closemindedness and celebrate open-mindedness. It is, of…
Genesis 25:19-34 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10A
Since the fulfilling of God’s covenant with Abraham hinged hugely on Abraham’s having descendants, you would think that in the childbearing department things would have gone more easily. And yet in story after story we deal with some level of infertility that becomes a deep source of concern and that God eventually is said to…
Commentary posted on July 10, 2023
Proper 10A Sermon Commentary
The Proper 10A Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 from the Lectionary Gospel; Genesis 25:19-34 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 65:(1-8), 9-13 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Romans 8:1-11 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 12&13 (Lord’s Day 5)