Proclamation

Matt Crummy invites us to reflect on what we expect when someone stands to speak from Scripture. Drawing from Luke 4, where Jesus reads from Isaiah and declares its fulfillment, Matt explores the idea of sermons as “word events”—not performances or lectures, but encounters where God addresses his people through human voices. He considers what this genre reveals about Jesus, about the nature of preaching, and about our posture as listeners. Rather than offering a formula, sermons open us to the presence of the living God and the ongoing work of the Spirit in community.