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John 11:1-45 Sermon Commentary
Lent 5A
This week’s commentary is a sample sermon: “Just about Everywhere”: https://cepreaching.org/written-sermons/lent-5a-just-about-everywhere/ Additional Year A Resources for Lent and Holy Week now available.
Psalm 130 Sermon Commentary
Lent 5A
As we continue our Lenten journey up to Mt. Calvary, the Lectionary puts a perfect Psalm before us on this Fifth Sunday of Lent. We’re getting close to our destination, but here the path takes a severe dip, sort of like a saddle on a mountain just before the summit. This Song of Ascents takes…
Romans 8:6-11 Sermon Commentary
Lent 5A
Romans 8: is there a better loved, more soaring passage in the New Testament than this one? There is much here to linger over, savor, celebrate. The Lectionary carves out only six verses but the truth is, Romans 8:1-17 form such a logical—and also lyric—unit that I would suggest reading all 17 verses, and indeed,…
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Sermon Commentary
Lent 5A
No matter how gladly we sing the old spiritual about “dry bones” that’s based on Ezekiel 17, we must admit it’s among the most mysterious and, dare we say, strangest passages in all of the Scriptures. Its imagery is so striking that it calls for vivid, poetic language to, by the power of the Holy…
Commentary posted on March 27, 2017
Lent 5A Sermon Commentary