Commentary on Mark 10:17-31
Nearly irresistible is the urge to soften this passage’s demands. That urge has been around [...]
Nearly irresistible is the urge to soften this passage’s demands. That urge has been around [...]
Mark’s original readers probably found Jesus’ uncompromising statements about divorce and remarriage as challenging and [...]
Coming from the villages of Caesarea Philippi where Jesus first announced his suffering, rejection, death, [...]
This is the third week of our “What if?” approach to texts from Mark. We’ve [...]
Last week, we began a three week exploration of the question: “What if?“ A big [...]
In the next three weeks, we’ll look at three texts from Mark in which a [...]
Three things right off the bat: First, no jokes about [...]
For the fifth Sunday in a row we find ourselves in John 6, but as [...]
Once again we are faced with a Gospel text that deals with bread and eating. [...]
This week the real challenge of preaching John 6 from [...]