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Nov 2024
Mark’s Little Apocalypse Rev. Dr. Chris Hensley November 17th, 2024 Daniel 12:1-3 & Mark 13:1-8 A part of the challenge of following the Lectionary is that, at times, you come across a collection of passages which do not sit well with you upon an initial reading. The Lectionary is a collection of passages which generally follow a theme. The passages, generally there are four of them, come from the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms, the Gospels, and from one of the letters within the Christian Testament. This week, the theme appears to be......
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Oct 2024
Calling of Outsiders Rev. Dr. Chris Hensley October 27th, 2024 Mark 10:45-52 We have been following Jesus’ journey southward from Galilee to the city of Jerusalem in Mark’s Gospel account. To this point, Jesus has been unnerving his closest followers by declaring that he is going to his death and they have responded with anger, misunderstanding, and delusions of grandeur. Suffice it to say, these guys do not fully get it, Jesus’ inner circle especially is guilty of these misunderstandings. Our text for this morning holds within it a couple distinctions worth......
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Dec 2016
a-new-roof-isaiah-52-7-10-12-25-2016 A New Roof A Christmas Homily for Sardis Baptist Church Bob Stillerman 12-25-2016 Isaiah 52:7-10 Years ago, Edwin McNeill Poteat, a famous Baptist minister from Raleigh, wrote a sermon about friendship. He remembered the four friends in Mark’s gospel, who so dedicated to their paralyzed friend, lowered him on a gurney through the roof of a house, in the hopes that Jesus would offer healing. Jesus noticed this gesture and told them, “Go, your faith has healed your friend.” What was interesting to me about Poteat’s sermon, is that he didn’t......
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