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Mark 10:17-31 Sermon Commentary
Proper 23B
Though the text alerts us to a natural transition in verse 17, stating that Jesus set out on a journey, I see verses 13-16 as a really helpful opening to this week’s encounter and suggest you include them. (See the Textual Point below for some of the reasons.) By all accounts, the rich man’s searching…
Job 23:1-9, 16-17 Sermon Commentary
Proper 23B
If you read the John Grisham novel The Firm, you may recall the horrifying moment when a young lawyer and his wife discover that the house so “generously” provided to them by the young man’s law firm is bugged to the hilt. Every conversation they had had, every lovemaking sigh, every TV show they had…
Hebrews 4:12-16 Sermon Commentary
Proper 23B
Even adults are, in some ways, masters of hiding. We generally no longer hide in closets or behind furniture as we did when we played “Hide and Seek” as children. Yet we still manage to keep a lot of things hidden from each other – and, sometimes, even ourselves. So those who proclaim Hebrews 4…
Psalm 90:12-17 Sermon Commentary
Proper 23B
The middle section of Psalm 90 – omitted by this week’s lection in the RCL – deals with the wrath of God, and that is probably why the Lectionary averts its eyes from that part on every occasion when Psalm 90 pops up in the Lectionary. Yet it is a key part of what is…
Commentary posted on October 10, 2021
Proper 23B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 23B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Mark 10:17-31 from the Lectionary Gospel; Job 23:1-9, 16-17 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 90:12-17 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Hebrews 4:12-16 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Belgic Confession Article 26