#proper 23b

Trust in the postmodern ageProper 23B  |  Mark 10:17-31 You thought last week’s teaching about marriage and divorce was spicy! Check this one out! Jesus is on fire, friends. And he comes to cleanse. This is also one of his last teachings before they arrive in Jerusalem and part of what we might call his Passion Prediction Discourse—this collection of teachings about the Kin-dom and how…

This Week: Proper 23BGospel: Mark 10:17-31 This passage is about money. Wealth. And everybody knows it. How we feel about that, however, can get us riled up. And it can reveal what we really think of it. And I think that is a big part of what Jesus is talking about. Money as evil We are familiar with the idea that money is the root of evil and most of us recognize the corrupting influence of…

What should we make of the rich young man who asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life? Isn’t there something wrong with the idea of “doing something” to inherit something else? What is the condition of this man’s heart? How does Jesus show him compassion? These questions are thought about in this sermon from Father Jeremiah.

Image: Woodcut illustration of man rejecting the devil in the form of a serpent used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg. Public Domain. Location: https://www.flickr.com/photos/58558794@N07/6581247221/in/photostream/. Posted by POP

The Inevitable Search for Eternal Life

In a story we assume is about wealth, Jesus reveals our misconceptions about life, grace, and the human project. God, Grace, and HopeProper 23B  |  Mark 10:17-31 The teacher collected his students and set out to do the work. It seems like a long time ago now, but it wasn’t that long ago. Not ages, a generation, but maybe a year. Not long. And he healed people. By the thousands. It was…

When Jesus tells us about the problems with wealth, we get hung up on whether or not he means us. But that isn’t the point. For the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 23B Collect Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and…

Jesus wants us to talk about money. I know you don’t want me to talk about money. And you know I don’t want to talk about money. But here we are. Just like I didn’t want to talk about divorce last week, but there it was. Jesus wants us dealing with important stuff.

Jesus is saying we can’t buy our way in Proper 23B  |  Mark 10:17-31

So this guy comes up to Jesus asking what it takes. And Jesus…