Hell, eternal fire, casting people into the sea, cutting your hand off, tearing your eye out…Well, it all made for an interesting exchange when we opened our conversation during Bible study this week after we have read this passage of the Gospel. Since we couldn’t miss the harsh, and even scary language Jesus uses, we…
Month: September 2024
Proper 19 B – Mark 8: 27-38
“If anyone want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” Last week, we talked about those passages of the Gospel that make us cringe a little bit…Well, I guess this whole denying yourself and carrying your own cross thing would be one of them! If that’s…
Proper 18(B) – Mark 7: 24-37
Today we have two stories in Mark’s Gospel that are wrapped up in the same passage: A foreign woman, a pagan, asks Jesus to heal her daughter from a demon, and then a little further, a little later, a group of people bring to Jesus a man who is deaf and mute. There are many…