Here’s the understatement of the New Year: Pastors are busy people! Coming out of the hectic Christmas season, pastors look a bit worn out as Epiphany begins. Yet the tasks and demands of pastoral work are ongoing: Preaching, teaching, worship, spiritual care and visitation, mission and evangelism, leadership and administration, and works of mercy and ..
The class covers Mark 4:1-30 and looks at Jesus revealing himself to the disciples through works and parables
Chapel Sermon by Michael Zeigler from Mark 4:35-6:13 on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Mark 4:35-41 is appointed for Proper 7, Series B. When Jesus calms the storm, we see a great storm, a great calm, and a great fear. As “God with Us,” Jesus is a Man with authority
Chapel Sermon by Richard Marrs from Mark 4:35-41 on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Mark 4:26-34 is appointed for Proper 6, Series B. The Kingdom of God parables are about Jesus. God acts at the proper time. The seed is the presence of the Kingdom in Jesus
Chapel Sermon by Paul Raabe from Mark 4:26-34 on Wednesday, June 13, 2012
STRANGERS WITHIN OUR GATES: East Meets West: Language, Religion, and Politics. By Paul Boeder. Indianapolis: Xlibris, 2009. 164 pages. Paper. $19.99. Reviewed by Francis Rossow, Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, MO. Strangers within Our Gates is written by one who is not a stranger within our gates. The author, Paul Boecler, an emeritus professor, was my ..
Fracis Rossow reviews PREACHING WITH ALL YOU’VE GOT: Embodying the Word. By David Day. Hendrickson Publishers, 2005. 186 pages. Paper. $16.95
By Andrew Bacon Rendezvous with Jesus The healing of the woman and the healing of the daughter are part of a series of four miracles in Mark 4 and 5 which demonstrate Jesus as Lord over creation, over Satan, over sickness, and over death. The Gathering (21) The story begins with Jesus in the boat ..
Chapel Sermon by Paul Robinson from Mark 4:35-41 on Tuesday, June 23, 2009
By Paul Robinson Preface: Sometimes a boat is just a boat Although Mark’s account of the stilling of the storm did not occur in any historic lectionary, Matthew’s version of the story was the traditional Gospel reading for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. So the story has been preached routinely in the history of the ..
By Thomas Egger Mark 4 begins and ends with references to Jesus as a teacher (4:1, 4:38). Yet it is clear from the central theme of his teaching (the kingdom of God) and from his authority over wind and sea that Jesus is much more than a teacher. In his words and works, the end-time ..
Chapel Sermon by Mark Surburg from Mark 4:26-34 on Tuesday, July 11, 2000