Mark 9: 38-50 This is a carrying on of what we heard and shared last Sunday. We’re in the same chapter of Mark that we were. The flow from being the greatest is found in being the last of all to welcoming the forgotten and ignored to whoever is not against us is for us…
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From the Greatest to the Welcomed
Mark 9: 30-37 There are three predictions in the gospel of Mark Jesus shares of his own arrest, crucifixion and resurrection. At each of these points, Jesus predicts, the disciples respond with misunderstanding, and Jesus instructs his followers about discipleship. We read and heard the first one last week, and the second such foretelling this…
Trust What He Says
Mark 9: 2-9 Transfiguration Sunday There was a voice from heaven at his baptism in the Jordan River valley that spoke, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased. (Mark 1: 11)” On the mountain at his transfiguration in the presence of Elijah and Moses, a cloud overshadowed them and a…
Tell No One
The gospel lesson was from Mark 2. Jesus told those confronting his actions and those of his learners, The sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the sabbath. This story is loaded with truth regarding the actions and reactions of the strictly religious and the followers of Jesus and his kingdom. Interestingly, that…
Change
I’ve thought about erasing my master’s degree in divinity from my resume. Perhaps, by so doing, I’d look less educated, hirable and more normal. Then the thought comes to me regularly, I’ll never be normal. Wednesday night, April and I went to a life group at a nearby church. It was church, nothing to beat…
Psalm 102 in The Message 