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Hebrews 9:11-14 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26B
As I noted in a 2018 commentary on this week’s Epistolary Lesson, this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson is “bloody.” In fact, it’s so bloody that citizens of the already figuratively blood-soaked 21st century may be uncomfortable with it. But perhaps humanity needed such a radical solution because its problem was so deeply-ingrained. Few pieces of baggage…
Ruth 1:1-18 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26B
To my mind stopping the reading of Ruth 1 at verse 18 is the narrative equivalent of ending the movie Field of Dreams just before the moment when Ray encounters his long-dead and estranged father on his magical Iowa baseball diamond. Why stop short of the scene that brings the whole thing together!? So trust…
Psalm 119:1-8 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26B
In the world of secular music, I would guess you would be hard pressed to find many songs with titles like “I Just Love Rules!” In fact the website Ranker provided their top list of songs with the word “law” in the title but songs of the variety “I’m Lovin’ the Law” don’t seem to…
Mark 12:28-34 Sermon Commentary
Proper 26B
The text’s message this week is simple. It’s the all-encompassing nature of the application that gets overwhelming. Did you know, for instance, that there are 613 commandments in the Pentateuch? Summarizing and prioritizing, as Jesus does here, was a normal practice among the rabbis and scribes of Judaism, not to mention that it’s a helpful…
Commentary posted on October 25, 2021
Proper 26B Sermon Commentary
For week 26B of the Revised Common Lectionary, find ideas and illustrations in sermon commentary for Mark 12:28-34, Ruth 1:1-18, Psalm 119:1-8, and Hebrews 9:11-14.
Related Reformed confession: OT Lectionary: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 94 (Lord’s Day 34)