Interacting With Jesus
For Sunday, September 20, 2015 – Mark 9:30-37 Jesus continues to teach his disciples quite openly about his coming betrayal and death and rising again, even though they do not really understand what he is saying and are afraid to ask. They would prefer to argue among themselves about which of them is the greatest […]
Knowing Who We Are
For Sunday, September 13, 2015 – Mark 8:27-38 Knowing who we are is the key to everything. Only as we begin to know ourselves can we begin to know one another. The true nature of those with whom we journey becomes clearer to us as we become clearer to ourselves. “Who do you say that […]
Showing Us God
For Sunday, September 6, 2015 – Mark 7:24-37 We all find ourselves there sometimes, in the dried up flat lands of Bottomed Out. Constant needs hurl themselves headlong into us, shriek our names, insist on our response until we feel utterly depleted by their demands. Does it help to know that Jesus, too, sometimes needed […]
Making New Traditions
For Sunday, August 30, 2015 – Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Some are quick to notice that Jesus and his disciples don’t rigorously follow religious tradition, in this case washing their hands before they eat. How slow we are to see our own deviations from practices and patterns of faith, and how glad we are to critique others. “Why do your disciples not live […]
