Articles tagged with: Homiletical Helps
Textual Considerations
John 14:1–14 serves as the gospel for the previous Sunday, the fifth Sunday of Easter.
While John 14:15–21 is the gospel for the sixth Sunday of Easter, the words of Jesus have their setting in …
by Charles Arand
“And That’s the Rest of the Story”
[This text provides an excellent opportunity for instruction on the Trinity. The following provides a potential pattern for how the sermon could be constructed. It moves from …
By Joel P. Okamoto
Notes on the pericope
This pericope consists of a paroimia (“parable” or “figure” or “illustration”) and part of Jesus’s explanation.
The parable follows an exchange recorded in chapter 9 between Jesus and the Pharisees …
By Travis J. Scholl
Does it strike anyone else as odd that the three-year lectionary assigns this classic Lucan text in every year but year C, the “year of Luke”? Nevertheless, here we are in the …
By Robert Kolb
Introductory thoughts: The text contains material for at least two good sermons; the sermon on Thomas and his faith and doubt can wait for another year. John comes to the climax of his …
By Rick Marrs
Proclaiming the gospel on Easter is a joy-filled challenge. This is the big Sunday in which everyone coming expects dynamic, joyous music and an outstanding, memorable sermon. It is, after all, the resurrection …
By Glenn A. Nielsen
A Victory Parade—on a Donkey?
Goal: That the hearers more firmly believe that Jesus is victorious over our greatest enemies. (The following is one approach that focuses Jesus’s victory over his/our enemies by …
By Paul Raabe
John 9 is the appointed gospel lesson for the Fourth Sunday in Lent (Series A). The appointed Old Testament lesson works well with the gospel lesson, since Isaiah 42:14–21 announces both God’s promise …
By Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.
Life is never the same after you drink of this water!
The familiar Samaritan woman text is seldom set in the context of the Gospel’s broader presentation of Jesus as the one …
By Erik Herrmann
“For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified…”
It was because of the signs that Nicodemus came to Jesus: “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher come from God, …
