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Psalm 8 Sermon Commentary
Trinity Sunday C
The poet of Psalm 8 stared into the night sky and was properly dazzled at what he saw. But to put it mildly, what he did not see was a lot! Had this psalmist been able to spend a scant ten minutes looking through a telescope, he would doubtless have fainted in wonderment. Ancient astronomers…
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Sermon Commentary
Trinity Sunday C
Are the Lectionary folks winking at us a bit with this text selection for Trinity Sunday? Obviously you don’t get any robust Trinitarian texts anywhere in the Old Testament. If it is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit you are looking for—or any combo of a couple of those at least—then Proverbs or Psalms or anywhere…
John 16:12-15 Sermon Commentary
Trinity Sunday C
You may have heard it said that the Holy Spirit is the “shy one of the Trinity.” The description is meant to denote how the Spirit of Truth always points us to Jesus Christ—as Jesus seemingly describes in our passage today. It seems to me, though, that an unintended consequence of this descriptor is what…
Romans 5:1-5 Sermon Commentary
Trinity Sunday C
A quick glance at the church year’s calendar may make gospel proclaimers’ pulses race. Trinity Sunday has, after all, come again. It may make proclaimers’ palms sweat not just because, as the New Testament scholar Beverly Gaventa to whose commentary I owe a great deal for this commentary, notes, “reference to the Trinity is itself…
Commentary posted on June 6, 2022
Trinity Sunday C Sermon Commentary
The Trinity Sunday C Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for John 16:12-15 from the Lectionary Gospel; Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 8 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Romans 5:1-5 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 59 (Lord’s Day 23)