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Archive for October, 2009
“The Question”
1st Sunday after Pentecost
Mark 10:46-52′
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Stories about healings inevitably raise difficult questions for modern Christians. What really happened? Are these stories true, or are they just told to make us believe in Jesus’ divinity? Why don’t the types of miraculous healings from the Bible happen anymore? Or do they? And if they do, then what is the relationship between faith and healing? If someone doesn’t get healed, does it mean they didn’t have enough faith? The questions are daunting. (more…)
“Voice from the Whirlwind”
20th Sunday after Pentecost
Job 38:1-7, 39-41
“The Possible Impossible”
19th Sunday after Pentecost
Mark 10:17-27
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I was seven years old the first time I encountered the rich young man who asks Jesus how to get eternal life. My uncle had dared me to read the whole Bible through, and I had taken the bait. I started with the gospels, and had gotten several chapters in without reading anything that sounded particularly foreign to me. Most of the stories about Jesus were somewhat familiar from Sunday School lessons and Vacation Bible School. (more…)