The Dilemma of Gifts
For Sunday, February 8, 2015 – Mark 1:29-39 Jesus clearly is gifted at healing the sick and curing them of many diseases. Healing simply is his nature, so it makes sense that he becomes widely known for these merciful acts. In the synagogue, in the streets, in private homes—everywhere he goes, people need healing and […]
The Authority of Love
For Sunday, February 1, 2015 – Mark 1:21-28 Jesus is a good teacher. Good enough, the scriptures say, that he “astounded” those in attendance at the synagogue, “for he taught them as one having authority.” Not as one having been given authority by another, but as one having authority. Something in Jesus’ manner carries an authority beyond […]
The Call Comes
For Sunday, January 25, 2015 – Mark 1:14-20 It is the longest journey we ever make—the one from general to specific. Taking up the ministry of John, who now has been imprisoned by Herod, Jesus continues to proclaim “the good news of repentance,” but he begins to clarify how this repentance will be not only a repentance of the heart, how it will move […]
Come and See
For Sunday, January 18, 2015 – John 1:43-51 “Come and see,” Philip says to Nathanael. “Come and see who this Jesus really is.” Philip has full confidence that in this one extraordinary, ordinary man, son of Joseph and Mary from Nazareth, can be seen everything they long for, everything promised by Moses and the prophets. […]
