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The Passionate Jesus
Day1 host Peter Wallace's new book on the emotions of Jesus is, according to Marcus Borg, “An illuminating and powerful personal meditation." Ideal for personal or group study.
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Mark 10:17-27
20th Sunday after Pentecost
October 14, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Wiley Stephens (UMC)Have you ever tried to get ready to set out on a trip only to be interrupted over and over again? It can be very frustrating as the deadline approaches and some pressing need grabs our attention. There always seems to be a hundred things to do when we are about leave.
The Gospel lesson from Mark 10 was just such a time for Jesus. He is setting out on a journey and is stopped by a man with a pressing question. How tempting it must have been for Jesus to push the question aside or to tell the man that he should listen more carefully as he spoke. After all, there were other villages and other people waiting for Jesus; but Jesus, in his usually caring way, stopped and dealt with the man before him. Unlike our world, which is too often caught up in numbers and bigness, Jesus saw each person as a precious creation of God.
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Sacrificial Love
The Rev. John Gunn (other)"What suffers so long and so much as love? What bears so much; what else imposes such heavy burdens? What way is so bleak and steep and rugged as that way out into the wilderness and up the mountainside on which love takes the shepherd in search of his lost sheep?" asks The Rev. Gunn in this episode of Be Still and Know.
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