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Luke 7:11-17 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5C
The incident in Nain recorded in Luke 7:11-17 is like one of many gospel snapshots we find in the four gospels. At the end of the fourth gospel, the Evangelist John flatly stated that Jesus did far more than anyone had ever written down. It seems that sometimes the evangelists threw in this or that…
Psalm 30 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5C
Easter and Eastertide have now passed this calendar year and yet in the Sundays after Pentecost the Lectionary provides us with some wonderful poetry to help us continue living into and celebrating Easter. With its imagery of death and resurrection, Psalm 30 is a perfect post-Easter Psalm. Its purpose is to keep the memory of…
Galatians 1:11-24 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5C
It’s not easy to preach on a text that in some ways resembles a person’s resume. Most of the verses in this Year C Lectionary reading are taken up with a brief autobiographical sketch of what happened to Paul and where he traveled in the period after Jesus confronted him on the Damascus Road. Let’s…
1 Kings 17:8-24 Sermon Commentary
Proper 5C
We live a world that death and violence seem to have in their iron-like stranglehold. All too often they appear to have both the dominant and final word in our world. In the midst of this culture of violence and death, however, God is in the business of constantly giving life. Death stubbornly looms over…
Commentary posted on May 30, 2016
Proper 5C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 5C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 7:11-17 from the Lectionary Gospel; 1 Kings 17: 8-24 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 30 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Galatians 1:11-24 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism: Q&A 83 (Lord’s Day 31)