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Mark 5:21-43 Sermon Commentary
Proper 8B
Jesus was someone people wanted to touch and be touched by. But in the case of Jesus, such touches were about far more than the people’s desire to make contact with somebody famous. Jesus’ touch was said to have healing powers. As we can see in this story, some had concluded that Jesus was a…
Psalm 30 Sermon Commentary
Proper 8B
Psalm 30 is almost singularly upbeat in its incessant exaltations of God. But the discerning reader and preacher will notice that underneath all this praising there has been a history of pain. References are made to having gone down to the depths, to sinking into the pit, to enemies eager to gloat over the psalmist’s…
2 Corinthians 8:7-15 Sermon Commentary
Proper 8B
This Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson’s proclaimers come, in a sense, with hands outstretched as we speak on giving. Yet if we’re going to do so, we’d better come up with some good reasons. So why should we preach or teach on what Paul calls “the grace of giving” (7b)? “What’s the matter?” some of our hearers…
2 Samuel 1:1,17-27 Sermon Commentary
Proper 8B
This is a strange and tough text to preach on, until you look at it through the lens of our contemporary situation, particularly in America. One of the hard realities of this past year was “the presence of [our] enemies,” as David put it in his most famous Psalm. Let me put this text in…
Commentary posted on June 21, 2021
Proper 8B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 8B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Mark 5:21-43 from the Lectionary Gospel; 2 Samuel 1:1,17-27 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 30 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 103 (Lord’s Day 38)