Sharing the liberating love of JesusProper 18B | Mark 7:24-37 This week we get a couple of stunning stories of grace that sound different from what came before. The evangelist we know as Mark is famous for his punchy prose, its sense of urgency and pace (everything is suddenly and then), but …
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A Word: Grace for All
And how Jesus challenges expectationsProper 16B | John 6:56-69 Reading this gospel passage this morning—it offers us kind of a gloomy, how’d-we-get-here vibe. Doesn’t it sound like a low point? When the mission doesn’t just seem hard, but kind of unpopular. Like the path they’re on can’t …
A Word: To Soften Our Hearts
Work, rest, and the rest of our livesProper 11B | Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 There is something deceptive in our reading of the gospel this morning. Nothing sinister or conniving. Nobody is trying to pull anything over. It’s just, deceptively quaint-sounding given the context. Given the subject matter …
