By Pastor Chris Cahill
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This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer.
This week there are actually two good candidates for a “red-letter" verse. In the first one, Jesus says “Everything is possible for someone who believes.” That’s a true statement, but maybe easy to explain and accept. The other one is harder to accept, because it goes against our nature - so that’s the one I’ve chosen to focus on. Here it is, from Mark chapter 29 - “This kind can come out only by prayer” – and especially the last three words, “Only by prayer.”
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You can find the John Donne “It tolls for thee” quote athttps://www.online-literature.com/donne/409/
You can find Martin Luther’s short explanation of “Deliver us from evil” at https://catechism.cph.org/en/lords-prayer.html
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One of my favorite all-time quotes that doesn’t come from the Bible is this one, from a sweet and wonderful book called “The Little Prince”: “Here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Today we’ll hear three Bible readings that start with blindness of the eyes – but then help us to see Jesus with our hearts.
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 8, verse 29: “Who do YOU say that I am?”
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240908Pentecost16
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Have you ever had a conversation with someone, where you think you’re talking about one topic but the other person has an entirely different subject in mind? If you have, you know that the result can sometimes be hilarious, but other times downright frustrating. Our “red letter verse” for today comes out of exactly that kind of situation, a conversation between Jesus and His disciples that is about – well, what, exactly?
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 8, verse 15: “Watch out for the yeast!”
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Just a couple of weeks ago we heard about a miracle Jesus did after He spent a long day teaching a crowd of 5000 people, when He fed them with five pita breads and a couple of fish. In this morning’s Gospel lesson we’ll hear about another miracle a lot like that one – this time, He feeds a crowd of 4000 people after He’s spent three days teaching them and working other miracles.
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 8, verse 2: “I have compassion for these people.”
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240825Pentecost14
In January 2017 Pastor Cahill gave a presentation at a conference at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, that was titled “More than a Metaphor: The Physiology of Empathy.” The presentation was based on the word that Jesus used for compassion in Mark 8:2 and elsewhere in the Gospels, “Σπλαγχνίζομαι”. You can view his presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/MoreThanAMetaphor
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I’d bet that most pastors have had experiences like these: someone they haven’t seen for years runs into them coming out of a grocery store and starts confiding the pain of their deepest hurts and wounds. Or some random stranger turns to them in an elevator and asks them to pray for that stranger’s loved one who’s in trouble. In today’s Gospel lesson we’ll hear how Jesus responded in those encounters, with compassion and love and even power.
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 7, verse 34: Jesus said “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”)
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240818Pentecost13
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In Jesus’ day (as in ours), one of the lifestyle practices that set the Jews apart from everyone else in the world was their dietary laws - what God had said they could eat, and what God had forbidden them to eat. But in today’s Gospel lesson Jesus points out that even a person who strictly and carefully follows such a “holy” diet can still be a jerk - when they’re focused on themselves, and not on the people around them.
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 7, verse 20: Jesus told the people “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.”
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240811Pentecost12
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The ministry of Jesus was not all miracles, prayer, teaching His disciples, and long walks in the hill country of Galilee. Sometimes He was confronted by people who wanted to argue with Him, just so they could find something they could use against Him. But when their focus was on something trivial and unimportant, as it often was, Jesus redirected the confrontation to what really mattered. That’s the subject of today’s readings and sermon.
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 7, verse 8: Jesus told the teachers of the Law “You abandon the commandments of God to follow human traditions.”
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As the sun went down on the mountainside where Jesus did the miracle of the feeding of the 5000, Jesus sent the disciples on ahead to the next town while he stayed behind to pray; they were in a boat, and he was on the mountain. Soon the disciples found themselves in the dark, rowing against a stiff wind. Jesus surprised them by walking out to them on the water - and their reaction prompted an important lesson!
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 6, verse 50: Jesus told His disciples “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240728Pentecost10
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Not all of the Gospels (Matthew’s, Mark’s, Luke’s, and John’s) include every event in the life and ministry of Jesus (only Matthew’s and Luke’s tell the Christmas story, for instance). But all four Gospels include these three episodes in the ministry of Jesus - (1) His baptism at the beginning of His ministry; (2) the week that began with His entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and climaxed with His suffering, death, and resurrection; and (3) today’s Gospel lesson (this time, from Saint Mark’s Gospel), that tells about the miracle when Jesus fed more than 5000 people with a five loaves of bread and two fish.
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’re focusing on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 6, verse 38: Jesus asked His disciples “How many loaves [breads] do you have?”
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240721Pentecost9
BREAKING NEWS! You can view, download, or print the BIBLE CLASS HANDOUT that explains more about this Gospel lesson (including the connection between the miracle and the Good Shepherd Psalm) by clicking the link here or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://app.box.com/s/hfd9cyjn4claeor9bg651g1o4ucfdndt
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Early in his earthly ministry, Jesus and his disciples stopped by for a visit in his hometown of Nazareth, and decided to go to the synagogue to worship. The worship leaders thought it would be good to invite Jesus to read one of the Scripture readings and make a few comments on it - but were they shocked at what he had to say! And was he ever surprised by their reaction! What would you do, if the same thing happened to you?
This summer most of the Gospel lessons are in the Gospel according to Saint Mark. These readings talk about Jesus’ teachings, His miracles, and His action-packed ministry. But each of the readings also has a “takeaway” from Jesus Himself! We’ll focus on these “red-letter” verses this summer. Here’s this week’s, from Mark chapter 6, verse 4: Jesus said “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.”
You can view, download, or print the text of this service by clicking the link below or by copying and pasting it into your browser: https://bit.ly/240714Pentecost8
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