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Our own healing hands
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.
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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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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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Driven by Faith or Fear?
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…
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To make people whole again
Could it be that we’ve already taken Jesus more seriously than that? That we’ve spent 2000 years trying to bring the Kingdom closer? And could it also be that we are far from being done? That there are many among us who need to be restored, both to this community and within this congregation? Could…
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Eating Again, Together
a Homily for Proper 8B Text: Mark 5:21-43 The Physical Presence From the moment Jesus pulled the fishermen from the sea to follow him, to learn to fish anew, we have been following along. We have witnessed healings and exorcisms, teachings and miracles. Each movement an opportunity to learn about Jesus and to test our…