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Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9C
Our passage this week is one that we’ve often heard in isolation, such as on a Missionary Sunday, without a sense of its immediate context in the book of Luke. And, we often do as the lectionary does: skip over the difficult bits… I too won’t be addressing the Woes section directly, but I do…
2 Kings 5:1-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9C
Martin Luther King, Jr., once preached a sermon on this text from 2 Kings 5, and I’m grateful to Richard Lischer for calling attention to it in a lecture he gave while working on his book The Preacher King. In the classic style of preaching that Dr. King so well embodied, he picked up on…
Psalm 66:1-9 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9C
A bit cheeky. A goodly dose of chutzpah. A tad forward. You have to admire the psalmists who on many occasions are not the least bit adverse to ordering the whole world to praise the God of Israel. Make no mistake: all those “Praise the Lord” lines in so many of the psalms are in…
Galatians 6:(1-6), 7-16 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9C
“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up” has spilled from the lips of at least some of us. Sometimes, of course, we try to cloak our braggadocio in the mantle of false humility. But few of us easily resist the temptation to brag about ourselves or people who are dear to us. Thugs…
Commentary posted on June 27, 2022
Proper 9C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 9C Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Luke 10:1-11,16-20 from the Lectionary Gospel; 2 Kings 5:1-14 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 66:1-9 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Galatians 6:(1-6),7-16 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 111 (Lord’s Day 42)