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Luke 12:13-21 Sermon Commentary
Proper 13C
Sometimes it is surprising what people will ask a pastor. Most pastors field their fair share of biblical and theological questions. Often people will call with a follow-up query to a topic that cropped up in a sermon. Those are the kinds of pastoral inquiries one would expect. Once in a while, though, pastors get…
Psalm 49:1-12 Sermon Commentary
Proper 13C
At times there is a very fine line separating the poems we call Psalms from the biblical literature we call Wisdom such as in the Book of Proverbs. Psalm 49 is a classic example of a definite blurring of that fine line. In fact, Psalm 49 sounds sufficiently like any number of passages in Proverbs…
Colossians 3:1-11 Sermon Commentary
Proper 13C
On that glorious first Easter morning an angel told the two Mary’s that God had raised Christ from the dead. Two thousand years later God’s adopted sons and daughters hear an aging apostle tells us that God also somehow raised us with Christ. But if it’s sometimes a little hard to believe that God raised…
Hosea 11:1-11 Sermon Commentary
Proper 13C
Marcion was the first to do it, but surely not the last. In the middle of the second century after Christ, Marcion taught that the God of the Old Testament was different than the Father of Jesus Christ. The God of the Old Testament was angry, violent, judgmental, and not worth following if you were…
Commentary posted on July 29, 2019
Proper 13C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 13C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 12:13-21 from the Lectionary Gospel; Hosea 11:1-11 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 49:1-12 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Colossians 3:1-11 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 6 (Lord’s Day 3)