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1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15) Sermon Commentary
Proper 5B
Getting Political This week’s lectionary reading fronts a larger section of text that tells us what happens when God’s people “get political.” From the start, God’s people have been shaped and sustained through covenants. Of course, there have always been leaders mediating this covenant — folks like Moses and Joshua feature prominently in that list. …
Mark 3:20-35 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5B
Jesus goes home, but he is not alone. Presumably, along with the disciples, the crowd that has quickly started to gather around Jesus in the first three chapters of Mark have also come. Mark has made multiple references to this crowd. First, Jesus’s fame was spreading and the crowds came looking for healing (1.28-33). Then,…
Psalm 130 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5B
Psalm 130 may be called a song of “ascents” but it begins with a descent into the depths of despair and desperation. Traditionally this poem has been tagged with the Latin phrase de profundis as those are the first two words of this psalm in the Latin Vulgate translation of the original Hebrew. But what…
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5B
This Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson brings to mind two relatively famous quotes about the dangers of thinking too much about our “eternal house in heaven” (5:1) that is our resurrected bodies in the new creation. Oliver Wendell Holmes once reportedly said, “Some people are so heavenly minded that they are of no earthly good.” Johnny Cash…
Commentary posted on June 3, 2024
Proper 5B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 5B Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Mark 3:20-35 from the Lectionary Gospel; 1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15) from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 130 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Corinthians 4:13 – 5:1 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: OT Lectionary: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 9 (Lord’s Day 4)