Sermons

That we might be affronted by Jesus is a sign of spiritual health, a sign that we have not fully domesticated Jesus or neutered the Gospel.

Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness... I trust that as we pray with Mark’s Gospel and come to “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest” it, that his Gospel – including these verses – will help us better come to know and love the one whom Mark himself had come to know and love: Jesus Christ.

[I pray that we] will not seek to hide from but rather do our best to be open to encountering Jesus, the living God.

May God give us the grace to include Jesus in our lives and not to crop him out.

As our conscience may trouble us – and we all have times when our conscience troubles us – perhaps we can find consolation in knowing that (as the author of Ephesians writes in this morning’s lesson), “God in Christ has forgiven you” (4:32).