Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Mark 5:21-43

  • The most difficult part of this week’s gospel isn’t the healings Jesus makes possible so much as what the healings mean for us.

  • In these two healing stories, Jesus offers information we’d rather skip over, providence we’d rather not have and cast only onto him.

  • This week’s gospel invites us to see two healing stories. If we take them together, what might we find? Not just healing, believing?

  • In the gospel of Mark, we get a series of stories which reveal Jesus’s true power. Which far exceeds everyone’s expectations.

  • For SundayFifth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus…