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Mark 10:46-52 Sermon Commentary
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Digging into the Text: Where are we? That’s always a good question to ask concerning a Gospel passage, and it’s particularly appropriate for this episode. The healing of Bar Timaeus comes as the climax to the entire first half of Mark, and at the completion of Jesus final trek to Jerusalem. The very next event…
Psalm 34:1-8 (19-22) Sermon Commentary
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Digging Into the Text: 1). The first thing to notice about this Psalm is that it is an acrostic. The poet/Psalmist not only takes on the usual formal patterns of Hebrew poetry such as parallelism, but adds the even more demanding form of the acrostic. It is analogous to the modern poet adopting the form…
Hebrews 7:23-28 Sermon Commentary
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This may not seem like a particularly appropriate Sunday on which to preach about priests. After all, Protestant Christians are preparing to celebrate the birth of the Reformation that the corruption of the Roman Catholic priesthood in part fueled. What’s more, the Reformation emphasized the priesthood of all believers. Since Protestant Christians recognize that all…
Job 42:1-6, 10-17 Sermon Commentary
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After surviving a blizzard of words (some from Job, many from his friends, and a few from God), we come to the end of the book of Job with this short chapter which reports on Job’s last words and last days. It is a surprising and, for many readers, controversial ending to a surprising and…
Commentary posted on October 22, 2018
Proper 25B Sermon Commentary
The Proper 25B Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Mark 10:46-52 from the Lectionary Gospel; Job 42:1-6, 10-17 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22) from the Lectionary Psalms; and Hebrews 7:23-28 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Epistle: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 80 (Lord’s Day 30)