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John 14:15-21 Sermon Commentary
Easter 6A
We are in the Easter season and we’ve spent the better part of it remembering all of the different ways that Jesus spoke of the Easter power to come even while he was still here with his disciples. We pick up this week right where we left off last week. Jesus called himself the way,…
1 Peter 3:13-22 Sermon Commentary
Easter 6A
After hearing the Boy Scouts’ founder Robert Baden-Powell say the Scouts’ motto was “Be prepared,” someone reportedly asked him, “Prepared for what?” The founder allegedly answered, “Why, for any old thing.” In fact, in his manual, Scouting for Boys, Baden-Powell wrote that to be prepared means “you are always in a state of readiness in…
Acts 17:22-31 Sermon Commentary
Easter 6A
Trouble in the Text The Apostle Paul had just taken the express train out of Berea. The Christians there showed him wonderful hospitality but the religious zealots from nearby Thessaloniki came into town to rough him up. So his peeps bundled him off to Athens, where Scripture tells us, he was waiting for Silas and…
Psalm 66:8-20 Sermon Commentary
Easter 6A
Psalm 66 requires a bit of a theological balancing act. On the one hand most of this song is a pretty straightforward expression of thanksgiving to God for delivering the psalmist from plights of various kinds. The songwriter had passed through a season of suffering. And so he cried out to God to save him. …
Commentary posted on May 4, 2026
Easter 6A Sermon Commentary
The Easter 6A Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for John 14:15-21 from the Lectionary Gospel; Acts 17:22-31 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 66:8-20 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Peter 3:13-22 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Gospel: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 53 (Lord’s Day 20)