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The Rev. Dr. Kimberleigh Buchanan
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Surviving Seeing

Mark 10:46-52

22nd Sunday after Pentecost - Year B

October 28, 2012

The Rev. Dr. Kimberleigh Buchanan (UCC)

What a wonderful story!  A blind man, forced to beg because of his disability, hears that Jesus is coming.  He shouts out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"  Jesus hears him, calls him, heals him.  "Immediately, the man regains his sight and follows Jesus." 

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The Rev. Thomas L. Brackett
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This Prayer That Won't Let Me Go

John 17:6-19

7th Sunday of Easter/Ascension Sunday - Year B

May 20, 2012

The Rev. Thomas Brackett (TEC)

This passage is the gospel assigned for the 7th Sunday of Easter. In this excerpt, the writer offers us a word for word transcript of a prayer that he has somehow overheard Jesus praying. Jesus is here talking to His Heavenly Father, quite intimately reflecting on his mission. You might say that he is offering God a kind of exit interview. He explains that he understands his mission as that of making God's name known to these few who have been pulled out from the rest of the world. These are the few who would "get it." Oh right, and there was that one who was destined to be lost--speaking of Judas. The rest--well Jesus is asking the Holy Father to guard them from the Evil One and protect them--set them aside-- keep them untainted.

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