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Luke 10:25-37 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
If you are a baseball fan, you might remember a bizarre play in Game 5 of the 2015 World Series playoff between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers. The game was tied 2-2 in the 7th inning and Texas had a man on third base. The Toronto pitcher had just thrown a pitch…
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…
Colossians 1:1-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
When my family and I first moved to the Washington D.C. area to serve the church I pastor, a wise colleague told me to read a lot of books. He said members of area churches like it when their pastors quote books. “They’re smart people who like to learn things,” my colleague told me. The…
Amos 7:7-17 Sermon Commentary
Proper 10C
Your average preacher will not choose this testy passage from Amos to preach on today. Amos is not a book to read if you are in need of easy encouragement. I cannot imagine the perpetually smiling Joel Osteen preaching on this text. Maybe you cannot imagine yourself doing that either. I mean, what can this…
Commentary posted on July 8, 2019
Proper 10C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 10C Sermon Starters include commentary 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)