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Luke 19:1-10 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26C
Maybe it was that sycamore tree that did it. Maybe even before Jesus wandered by, Zacchaeus looked at where he was and wondered how it had come to this. What was it that had quite literally chased him clean up a tree? His nice Armani tunic had a chlorophyll stain or two on it from…
Psalm 32:1-7 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26C
Most of his friends had been hanged. But despite his central role in helping to construct Adolf Hitler’s Nazi nightmare, Albert Speer somehow managed to receive from the Nuremberg trials only a 20-year sentence at the Spandau Prison in Berlin. Not long after arriving in Spandau, Speer met with the prison chaplain. To the chaplain’s…
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26C
I think that a really helpful way to frame a sermon on the lectionary text for today, including if you choose to cover the verses that the lection skips over, is our covenant relationship with God. A covenant is an agreement between two parties where each makes promises about how they will be to and…
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26C
This passage is part of an extended dialogue between the prophet Habakkuk and his God, whose ways with God’s own people are a mystery to the prophet. In the first 4 verses, the prophet passionately voices his complaint to God. In 1:5-11, God answers that complaint with a truth that Habakkuk finds unbelievable. So in…
Commentary posted on October 28, 2019
Proper 26C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 26C Sermon Starters include commentary and illustration ideas for Luke 19:1-10 from the Lectionary Gospel; Habakkuk 1:1-4,2:1-4 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 32:1-7 from the Lectionary Psalms; and 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4,11-12 from the Lectionary Epistle.
Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Psalm: Belgic Confession Article 23