Mark 7:24-37
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Radiate Love
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8 min read
The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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Jesus changes his mind
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7 min read
In these two encounters with the Syrophoenician woman and the deaf man, seeing Jesus change his mind allows us to do the same.
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When he breaks the rules—for Proper 18B
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2 min read
When Jesus heals the Syrophoenician woman, he is breaking a rule he never intended to break. What are those rules for us?
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Jesus learns from his own experience
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6 min read
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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A Promise of Wholeness
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3 min read
For SundayFifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and…
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Trading Spaces
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8 min read
What Jesus’s interaction with the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7:24-37 tells us about what God is really up to with Jesus the Christ. How the gospel of Mark flips the Christ Project on Jesus. Proper 18B | Mark 7:24-37 It was only a chapter ago in the gospel we call Mark when Jesus was trying…