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The transgressive in Jesus’s healing stories
In these two healing stories, Jesus offers information we’d rather skip over, providence we’d rather not have and cast only onto him.
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Two Healing Stories—for Proper 8B
This week’s gospel invites us to see two healing stories. If we take them together, what might we find? Not just healing, believing?
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Willing To Be Amazed
A recurring theme in the gospels is that people are astounded and amazed by Jesus. How many Christians actually are?
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Jesus learns from his own experience
These two healing stories aren’t just about healing. They show Jesus expanding the circle of wholeness beyond his own expectations.
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Extraordinary Power
In the gospel of Mark, we get a series of stories which reveal Jesus’s true power. Which far exceeds everyone’s expectations.
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Generous Mercy
I’m going to guess that nobody here was thinking about that parable from two weeks ago about the rich guy suffering in Hades, wanting a drink of water. Just a little something to wet his lips, they must’ve been so dry in that place of torment. He tries to get Abraham to send Lazarus over…
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GOD and Power
In his interaction with the widow, the encounter’s parallel with Elijah, and his commissioning of apostles, we see that GOD is doing something big in Jesus — and with us.
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Walking Between Two Worlds
a homily for Proper 23CText: Luke 17:11-19 If we were to take out a map to look for Jesus, where He is in the gospel, we’d find He isn’t really that far from where He started. Jesus is heading to Jerusalem, which is in Judea. Directly north of Judea is Samaria. North of that is…