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Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Proper 11B

“Be specific!”  “Show, Don’t Tell!”  “Appeal to all Five Senses!” Recently I completed a three-week mini course online on “The Nuts and Bolts of Preaching” and when I interacted with my students, lines like those above were my common go-to pieces of advice.  It is the same in regular seminary courses when I grade student…

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Mark 6:14-29

Proper 10B

How sordid.  How tawdry.  How stupid.  How tragic.  It’s all here in Mark 6 where we learn to our shock and sadness that the last great Old Testament prophet and the first great New Testament gospel herald, John the Baptist himself, was done in because of a boozy promise made by an oversexed older man…

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Mark 6:1-13

Proper 9B

This lection from Mark 6 provides a curious set of contrasts as well as a wonderful irony. First, we twice read the word “amazed” here: first in verse 2 and then again in verse 6.  Jesus is doing what he’s been doing ever since Mark 1 and 2 when he began his public ministry of…

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Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Proper 11B

“Be specific!  Show, Don’t Tell!” Those are fairly common pieces of advice from me when I grade student sermons.  Generalities, undefined words like “this” or “that,” brief lists that quickly conclude with “and so on” or “et cetera” just don’t cut it.  The concrete and the specific always trump the vague and the general. I…

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Mark 6:14-29

Proper 10B

How sordid.  How tawdry.  How stupid.  How tragic.  It’s all here in Mark 6 where we learn to our shock and sadness that the last great Old Testament prophet and the first great New Testament gospel herald, John the Baptist himself, was done in because of a boozy promise made by an oversexed older man…

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Mark 6:1-13

Proper 9B

This lection from Mark 6 provides a curious set of contrasts as well as a wonderful irony. First, we twice read the word “amazed” here: first in verse 2 and then again in verse 6.  Jesus here is doing what he’s been doing ever since Mark 1 and 2 when he began his public ministry…

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Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Proper 11B

Comments and Observations “Be specific!   Show, Don’t Tell!” Those are fairly common pieces of advice from me when I grade student sermons.   Generalities, undefined words like “this” or “that,” brief lists that quickly conclude with “and so on” or “et cetera” just don’t cut it.   The concrete and the specific always trump the vague and…

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Mark 6:14-29

Proper 10B

Comments and Observations Every day the news contains sad and tawdry stories not too far removed from this lection in Mark 6.    It’s altogether too typical.    Here in Mark 6 we learn that the last great Old Testament prophet and the first great New Testament gospel herald, John the Baptist himself, was done in because…

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Mark 6:1-13

Proper 9B

This lection from Mark 6 provides a curious set of contrasts as well as a wonderful irony. First, we twice read the word “amazed” here: first in verse 2 and then again in verse 6. Jesus here is doing what he’s been doing ever since Mark 1 and 2 when he began his public ministry…

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