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John 2:13-22 Sermon Commentary
Lent 3B
We are impressed very often by all the wrong things. In John 2 everyone was impressed with the physical Temple. It had been undergoing construction for over four decades already and was not even finished. It reminds me of the Ken Follett novel The Pillars of the Earth that narrates the construction of a European…
Psalm 19 Sermon Commentary
Lent 3B
Since I began teaching preaching about 15 years ago, one of the things I find myself most often urging students to do is pay good attention to their transitions. Segues, metonymy, giving listeners little verbal hooks inside the sermon to help folks track the sermon’s forward progress: all of these things are vital to good…
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Sermon Commentary
Lent 3B
In a wonderful sermon commentary on this text (from which I drew numerous ideas for this one), Scott Hoezee suggests that there’s a danger in spending as much time in church and around Christians as some gospel proclaimers do. That’s when Christianity becomes commonsensical to us. And we also wonder why Christianity doesn’t make sense…
Exodus 20:1-17 Sermon Commentary
Lent 3B
On this Third Sunday of Lent, the RCL continues its focus on the theme of covenant. Though our immediate text does not mention covenant, it is very clear from the context (Exodus 19-24) that the Ten Commandments are part of a covenant making ceremony between the God who liberated his people and those liberated people. …
Commentary posted on March 1, 2021
Lent 3B Sermon Commentary
The Lent 3B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for John 2:13-22 from the Lectionary Gospel; Exodus 20:1-17, from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 19 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 21 (Lord’s Day 7)