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Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Sermon Commentary
Lent 4C
Go ahead, try to be creative. Mess with this story if you must. Others have. Texts that are super-familiar to many people always tempt one to do something different. “Goodness, people have heard this story SOOOO many times” we think. Thus when it comes to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, folks have tried to…
Psalm 32 Sermon Commentary
Lent 4C
Most of his friends had been hanged. But despite his central role in helping to construct Adolf Hitler’s Nazi nightmare, Albert Speer somehow managed to receive from the Nuremberg trials only a twenty-year sentence at the Spandau Prison in Berlin. Not long after arriving in Spandau, Speer met with the prison chaplain. To the chaplain’s…
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Sermon Commentary
Lent 4C
“From now on,” Paul insists to the Corinthians in this Sunday’s RCL Epistolary Lesson, “we regard no one from a worldly point of view (16)”. Yet whenever I hear him say that, I want to ask, “Really?! Do we really no longer view people from a worldly point of view? After all, how quick aren’t…
Joshua 5:9-12 Sermon Commentary
Lent 4C
Why in the world would you preach on this text, when the Lectionary offers you the options of Jesus’ dramatic Parable of the Prodigal (Luke 15) and Paul’s magnificent doctrine of new creation in Christ (II Corinthians 5:15-21). I mean, this text from Joshua seem so small and insignificant. Plus, preaching on it will make…
Commentary posted on March 25, 2019
Lent 4C Sermon Commentary
The Lent 4C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 15:1-3,11-32 from the Lectionary Gospel; Joshua 5:9-12 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 32 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 17 (Lord’s Day 6)