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Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Sermon Commentary
Proper 25A
A Sunday Too Soon Looking at this reading and the liturgical calendar, I can’t help lamenting that the text has come just one Sunday too early. November 1 is celebrated, in many church traditions, as All Saints Day — an opportunity to remember our ancestors in faith. Certainly, this story of Moses on the cusp…
Psalm 1 Sermon Commentary
Proper 25A
Psalm 1 is such a positional psalm. By that I mean that from start to finish this song is all about where a person is situated and what their posture or position is. We begin with a negative litany of where a blessed person must not be. A blessed person does not walk with sinners,…
1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Sermon Commentary
Proper 25A
In verse 4’s heart of this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson lies a perhaps largely unnoticed but most extraordinary claim: God has “entrusted” [pisteuthenai*] Jesus’ friends “with the gospel [euangelion].” No news is greater than that of salvation through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that we receive with our faith. Yet the apostle audaciously…
Matthew 22:34-46 Sermon Commentary
Proper 25A
These two sections seem like odd bedfellows, as though Jesus seized the opportunity of having the Pharisees “gathered together” to give them a little food for thought. But maybe they are more connected than they seem. Are these the same Pharisees that sent their servants to challenge and entrap Jesus earlier in the chapter (last…
Commentary posted on October 19, 2026
Proper 25A Sermon Commentary
The Proper 25A Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Matthew 22:34-46 from the Lectionary Gospel; Deuteronomy 34:1-12, from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 1 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8.
Related Reformed confession: Gospel Lectionary: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 93 (Lord’s Day 34)