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Mark 12:38-44 Sermon Commentary
Proper 27B
Comments and Observations Preachers don’t always pay much attention to the acoustics of Bible stories but they should. How something sounded may be the key to getting a passage correctly. But as I say to my preaching students, this is where the Bible does not help us a lot. It is a rare Bible verse…
Psalm 127 Sermon Commentary
Proper 27B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Few psalms are arguably more challenging to preach and teach than this somewhat quirky one. After all, it contains neither the vows nor calls to praise that characterize so many other psalms. Psalm 127, in fact, more closely resembles the kind of wisdom literature we find more commonly in…
Hebrews 9:24-28 Sermon Commentary
Proper 27B
Comments and Observations The lectionary reading for this Sunday is the high point of the argument of the letter to the Hebrews, but for many people today, including many Christians, it is the low point. Way back in 1926 Harry Emerson Fosdick preached a now famous sermon in which he labeled the whole idea of…
Ruth 3:1-5, 4:13-17 Sermon Commentary
Proper 27B
Comments and Observations: The Lectionary has us skip the drama of Ruth 2 and then dips in briefly to Ruth 3 for the connection with Boaz and then zooms ahead to the very end of Ruth 4 for the “happy ending” of the tale and how it all points forward to King David. As preachers,…
Commentary posted on November 2, 2015
Proper 27B Sermon Commentary