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Mark 10:17-31 Sermon Commentary

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Comments and Observations: Don’t forget, bracket out, or lose sight of verses 10-13!!  This Lectionary text may include only Mark 10:17-31 but trust me: the four verses prior are the kicker. Here’s why: Picture the scene:  Jesus has just lifted his hands off the heads of the little children he had been blessing.  His words…

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Psalm 22:1-15 Sermon Commentary

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Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Psalm 22 is a psalm of lament that expresses the poet’s anguish at his enemies’ relentless and ferocious attacks on him.  It contains the kind of honesty with God that 21st century Christians seem sometimes reluctant to express.  So how does such a lament fit into the season of…

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Hebrews 4:12-16 Sermon Commentary

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Comments and Observations As I reflected on this text, my mind went to Harriet, a member of one of my churches who, like the recipients of the letter to the Hebrews, was slip-sliding away from the church.  No, Harriet wasn’t drifting back to her native Judaism, as they were.  A baby boomer of my vintage,…

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Job 23:1-9; 16-17 Sermon Commentary

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Comments and Observations: If you read the John Grisham novel The Firm, you may recall the horrifying moment when a young lawyer and his wife discover that the house so “generously” provided to them by the young man’s law firm is bugged to the hilt.  Every conversation they had had, every lovemaking sigh, every TV…

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