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The Cup Is the Glory You Get
October 22, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 10: 35-45 Cup: coffee cup, tea cup, paper cup, Styrofoam cup, tin cup, china cup, loving cup. Imagine each of them: from pedestrian to ordinary to modest to precious to triumphal. Each of them a cup. The paper or Styrofoam cup is disposable and is disposed of […]
Not For the Faint of Heart
October 15, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 10: 17-27 How I would love to know how this text from the Gospel according to Mark will be treated today in places like Christ Church, Greenwich, Ct., or Christ Church, Winnetka, Ill., or Christ Church, Cranbrook or Christ Church, Grosse Pointe – parishes of our Episcopal […]
Marriage and Justice
October 8, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 10: 2-9 One always needs to ask about a biblical passage what it was that prompted its writing in the first place – in particular the gospels, which depict Jesus saying this thing and that thing. Careful study of the gospels demonstrates that their writers and editors […]
Being Part of the Solution
Being Part of the Solution A sermon on Mark 8:27-38 by Nathan Nettleton, 17 September 2006 One of the things I find hardest to do is resist the urge to hit back when I cop an unfair attack. I don’t think I’m on my own there. The hunger for retaliation or vengeance is pretty much […]
Never Mind Who Gets the Credit
October 1, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 9: 38-43, 45, 47-48 During my college years, I was a member of an organization that did not rank high on the campus social scale. We were a bunch of non-conformists – if it could be said that anyone at that little Midwestern college in the 1950s […]
Turning the other cheek (another)
From Steven Chalke and Alan Mann, “The Lost Message of Jesus”, from chapter 7 “A new agenda”, pg. 130, under “Practical Non-violence”: ———- “Whatever he was, Jesus was never passive. Even the briefest reading of the Gospels quickly confirms this. And in line with everything else he stood for, his teaching about loving enemies was […]
Transforming Initiatives in the Sermon on the Mount
Basically my reading of the Sermon on the Mount follows the materials produced by Glen Stassen (of Fuller) and Walter Wink — so you might find more helpful material from them if you ‘google’ their names and see what comes up. But for communicating these ideas with young people, I think there’s a great opportunity […]
Turn the other cheek!?
What was Jesus really on about? “Don’t be a wimp; don’t be aggro — just stay cool!†That’s how we were told to face up to bullying. “Don’t hit back; don’t just lie down and let them walk all over you — but try to act in a way that let’s them know you don’t […]
Like a Child
September 24, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 9: 30-37 Jesus foresaw how life in the church named for him would be. Mark portrays Jesus leading his contingent by foot through Galilee. As the leader, Jesus would have been out in front, the disciples following him. Mark suggests he could not hear exactly what the […]
Playing Favourites
Playing Favourites A sermon on James 2:1-17 & Mark 7:24-30 by Nathan Nettleton, 10 September 2006 We human beings are naturally tribal. We identify ourselves with with blood-related clan groups and various other identifiable groups and we readily commit ourselves to serving the interests of our groups. In this town, our tribalism is especially obvious […]
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