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Full Text Wow, it was a busy week. This text was the core of my lenten devotion last week. Prepping for Mauday Thursday as well. It was Mark’s account of the Last Supper. In these lenten devotions, we’ve been walking through the Markan account of Holy Week. I’ve also been using a phrase to . . . → Read More: Ritual – Mark 14:22-26 Full Text The text is Mak 14:3-9. The story is a woman’s annointing of Jesus with a year’s wages worth of perfume. Jesus praises her and he tells the disciples to stop picking on her. He does not denounce their version of good – counting the cost and helping the poor. Instead he denounces . . . → Read More: Lent 3 – Two types of good, and a time to Break the Jar – Mark 14:3-9 Full Text Continuing the mid-week series started Ash Wednesday we are working our way through the Holy Week account in the gospel according to Mark. Below is the compressed devotion coming out of the fuller text. Please join us looking at The Mission of Holy Week. Text: Mark 14:1-2 (“But not during the feast…”) . . . → Read More: Two Poles – It’s about Jesus and The Lord has a Mission Text: Hebrews 2:1-10 How is faith passed on? That is not the main point of this text, but the writer of Hebrews summarizes how faith came to him and to those he or she write to. So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced . . . → Read More: Transmission of Faith Full Text Transfiguration sunday. Exactly what we do with this picture of the Glory of God in Jesus is tough to talk about. Fundamentally, the image is too bright for our mortal eyes. What we can look at is the reactions of the disciples in contrast to the reactions of other people who have . . . → Read More: Sermon – Mark 9:1-10 – Under the Gospel there is no fear Full Text Allen Bauchle asked a great question/observation in bible class after worship about something called the ‘messianic secret’. That is a technical term for those times when somebody is telling who Jesus is (the messiah/the son of God), but he tells them to be silent. The demons obey. The humans do not. Strangely, . . . → Read More: Sermon – Mark 1:40-45 – The clean get the mission Full Text Not a very Lutheran sermon, but I think it is spot on. (It was not very Lutheran becuase the overly simple condensation is Jesus was/did this, so we should do this. Lutherans tend to frown on Jesus the example which drifts to close to Jesus the law giver.) I liked it enough . . . → Read More: Sermon – The Mission of God – Mark 1:29-39 Reading: Mark 3:19-35 Part of the christian message has always been the we are children of God. We even hear that as part of absolution, “To those that believe in Jesus he give the power to become children of God…” The post christian culture has gone in a couple of directions with that thought. The . . . → Read More: The possession of Satan – entering a Strong Man’s House This sermon is counter intuitive in its message. We naturally think that first we see something, then we sort it out, and eventually form beliefs based on those observations. That is not what John in the text or the small catachism say about faith. Third article of the creed…what does this mean? I believe . . . → Read More: Sermon – John 1:43-51 – What you believe effects what you see Two possibly competing Study Bibles have been published recently (i.e. within the last couple of months). One is the New Living Translation Study Bible from Tyndale. And the other is the English Standard Version Study Bible from Crossway. The English Standard Version (ESV) is marketed in two ways: 1) apparant from its name it . . . → Read More: A Little Bit of Social Science – Network Chart of what people buy with a Study Bible |
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