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Luke 19:1-10 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26C
Both Zacchaeus and Jesus are depicted as seeking in this story. In fact, seeking, or seeing, is a central and repeated theme in the passage. Zacchaeus wants to see, Jesus is seeking, the crowd sees. We readers are even pulled into the story through seeing: Luke starts with giving us details about Zacchaeus, but does…
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
Among the various elements of Paul’s epistles, two are, arguably, the most challenging to proclaim in a 21st century context: the apostle’s “personal touches,” and his eschatology. It can be as difficult to preach about the apostle’s more personal messages as about his proclamation of Jesus’ second coming. That might seem to make the challenge…
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26C
As most every Bible commentary would tell you, the way Paul uses Habakkuk 2:4b (“the righteous will live by faith”) in Romans and Galatians may be a bit different from how the text “sounds” and seems to function in the original context of Habakkuk 2. Habakkuk has spent most of his prophecy up to this…
Commentary posted on October 24, 2022
Proper 26C Sermon Commentary
The Proper 26C Sermon Commentaries include reflection 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