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Psalm 98 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28C
Reading Psalm 98 is like uncorking a well shook-up bottle of champagne. The cork rockets upward and the bubbly inside the bottle fountains forth in exuberance. We’ve all seen those locker rooms after a team wins the World Series or the Super Bowl when players spray each other with such bottles—some years ago someone finally…
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28C
Paul spends relatively little time in his second letter to Thessalonica’s Christians talking about Christian ethics. He might have spent that addressing things like healthy relationships and the proper attitude toward those in authority, as he does in his other epistles. However, in this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson the apostle talks, instead, about Christians’ work. Both…
Isaiah 65:17-25 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28C
It doesn’t get any more lyric than this! Here in the 65th chapter of the sprawling book that just is Isaiah, we find the prophet sketching one huge vision for the renewal of all things. But like many such visions in the Old Testament—and indeed throughout the Bible—what is striking here is how utterly earthy…
Luke 21:5-19 Sermon Commentary
Proper 28C
Luke likely wrote his gospel and the Acts of the Apostles around 80 AD. In other words, Luke already knew how the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and had already witnessed the persecution of the church and its leaders. Luke lived through and witnessed new followers of the Jesus Way be put to death for…
Commentary posted on November 7, 2022
Proper 28C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 28C Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Luke 21:5-19 from the Lectionary Gospel; Isaiah 65:17-25 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 98 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Gospel: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 1 (Lord’s Day 1)