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…)