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Matthew 25:14-30 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28A
“Well done, good and faithful servant.” How often haven’t we heard—or even spoken—these words at the funeral of some beloved member of the church? How often haven’t we seen these words etched onto tombstones in a cemetery or printed on the cover of the memorial folder for a funeral? This is what every believer hopes…
Psalm 123 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28A
Psalm 123 is the fourth of the Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134) and the first that is a prayer. Most scholars think that Israelite pilgrims from all over the Promised Land (and perhaps beyond, if this is an early post-Exilic Psalm) sang these words as they journeyed up to Jerusalem and maybe even as they…
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28A
“Nothing good happens after midnight,” many a parent has said to their teenaged child when setting the 11:30pm curfew. And indeed, a majority of auto thefts, drunk driving incidents, domestic violence events, and a pretty thick majority percentage of rapes happen after the sun goes down and under the cover of darkness. We are, a…
Judges 4:1-7 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28A
You’d probably have to thumb through a lot of children’s Bible story books before you’d find a retelling of Judges 4. It’s, after all, very resistant to the kind of moralizing such books sometimes like to do. In fact, even adult readers may have to dig pretty deeply to find anything edifying in this text….
Commentary posted on November 13, 2017
Proper 28A Sermon Commentary