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Palm Sunday B

The Palm Sunday B Sermon Commentaries include reflection and illustration ideas for Mark 11:1-11 from the Lectionary Gospel; Isaiah 50:4-9 from the Old Testament Lectionary; Psalm 118:1-2, 12-29 from the Lectionary Psalms; and Philippians 2:5-11 from the Lectionary Epistle.

Related Reformed confession: Lectionary Gospel: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 31 (Lord’s Day 12)

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John 12:12-16 Sermon Commentary

What sets John’s account apart is perspective. Instead of following the story play out from among the disciples and Jesus’s instructions, John tells a story more focused on what the crowd is doing and saying. In fact, even though all attention is on him, Jesus doesn’t speak a word in John 12.12-16. The larger narrative…

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Isaiah 50:4-9 Sermon Commentary

A Turn Toward the Passion Interestingly, the Lectionary provides two sets of readings for this last Sunday in Lent: (1) a Psalm and Gospel that celebrate the procession with the Palms and (2) a full set of four readings that look ahead to all that stands between the false and frivolous praise of Palm Sunday…

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Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 Sermon Commentary

By the end of Psalm 118 it is easy to see why the Lectionary would connect these words with Palm Sunday.  The imagery of a festal throng of people going up to the Temple waving tree branches exuberantly in the air makes this fit the traditional ways we picture the events of Jesus’s entrance into…

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Philippians 2:5-11 Sermon Commentary

In his excellent commentary on the book of Hebrews (Hebrews, Westminster John Knox Press, 1997), the biblical scholar Tom Long refers to what he calls “the parabola of salvation.” It’s basically the trajectory that Hebrews and, I would suggest, this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson trace “from creation downward to the cross up the heavenly place of…

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Sermon Commentary From Other Lectionary Cycles

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