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Mark 6:1-13 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9B
This lection from Mark 6 provides a curious set of contrasts as well as a wonderful irony. First, we twice read the word “amazed” here: first in verse 2 and then again in verse 6. Jesus is doing what he’s been doing ever since Mark 1 and 2 when he began his public ministry of…
Psalm 123 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9B
If the entirety of this short psalm were embedded inside a larger psalm, then at least verse 2 is the kind of verse I would expect the Lectionary to leapfrog over. As I have noted often in these sermon commentaries here on the Center for Excellence in Preaching, the Lectionary likes to skip over words…
2 Corinthians 12:2-10 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9B
[God’s] power is made perfect in weakness might be one of the most appropriate and hopeful things the inspired Paul could say to his 2021 hearers. After all, in the past 18 months we’ve surely learned if not been reminded that we are weak. Among the countless reasons why the COVID-19 pandemic may have proven…
2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 Sermon Commentary
Proper 9B
This is a little text, but it is the exclamation point of the whole David story. He gets everything God promised him, and then some. The boy whom we first met when he was shepherding his father’s flock becomes the King of Israel, the shepherd of God’s flock. And he establishes Jerusalem as the capital…
Commentary posted on June 28, 2021
Proper 9B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 9B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Mark 6:1-13 from the Lectionary Gospel; 2 Samuel 5:1-10 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 123 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 30 (Lord’s Day 11)