About Narrative Context: A Lectionary Preaching Commentary
Narrative Context offers weekly lectionary preaching commentaries focused on story, context, and proclamation. Each episode features Pastor Micah Krey reading his written reflection on the upcoming Revised Common Lectionary texts. A resource for pastors, leaders, and anyone engaging scripture with depth and imagination.
Turning Our Eyes Toward Matthew and Grounding in Year A
As we step into a new lectionary year, we’re invited to see the world through Matthew’s eyes. Each Gospel writer has a theological “lens,” and Matthew’s is one we need to wrap our heads around before Advent begins. Otherwise, we risk hearing his texts through Mark’s urgency, Luke’s expansiveness, or John’s mysticism. Matthew has his own heartbeat, his own anxieties, his own hopes, his own vision of what it looks like for God to break into the world.
This helps to ready us to preach and hear Matthew's word.
https://micahkrey.com/2025/11/23/turning-our-eyes-toward-matthew-and-grounding-in-year-a/ (https://micahkrey.com/2025/11/23/turning-our-eyes-toward-matthew-and-grounding-in-year-a/)
21 Nov 2025
Luke 23:33-43 (Christ the King) – November 23, 2025
Pastor Micah Krey explains why “narrative context” is at the heart of this preaching commentary. Rather than treating the Gospels as flat stories, Micah explores their narrative, literary, and historical layers, asking why each Gospel is constructed the way it is, and how the communities behind them shaped their tone and focus.
Mark writes near the destruction of the Temple. Luke speaks from within the Greco-Roman world. Matthew is rooted in a Jewish and Gentile community wrestling with identity. John’s high Christology emerges from conflict and boundary-drawing.
Understanding these contexts helps us preach more faithfully today. When we stay close to the political, religious, and cultural tensions inside the text, we gain more honest ways to speak into the tensions around us. And we open ourselves to being transformed by Scripture as well.
20 Nov 2025
Introduction to Narrative Context
An introduction to Narrative Context: A Lectionary Preaching Commentary, a weekly podcast where Pastor Micah Krey reads his written reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary Gospel texts. This short episode explains the purpose, format, and approach behind the commentaries—designed for pastors and leaders who want accessible, narrative-driven insights for preaching and preparation.
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