Read, Mark, Learn, and Inwardly Digest -- the bishop's Bible Sunday sermon
November 8, 2015 - The 24th Sunday after Pentecost
November 1, 2015 - The Feast of All Saints
October 25, 2015 - Giving to Deepen Our Faith - The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
We have been talking about this Gospel passage for weeks now. Not directly. But indirectly. Since September, we have been in this middle section of Mark's Gospel, in which Jesus has been trying to heal the spiritual blindness of his disciples, his followers, us. And as we have been noting, this middle section of Mark's Gospel has been bookended by two stories of the healing of physical blindness. The first was the healing of the blind man in Bethsaid and the second is today's Gospel about Bartimaeus.
October 18, 2015 - The 21st Sunday after Pentecost
October 11, 2015 - Practice Giving Generously - The 20th Sunday after Pentecost
Mark 10:17-31
Our Gospel reading today is the story of the Rich Young Ruler. Now, you may have noticed that the Gospel we read didn't say all of those things about him. We call him young, because Matthew said he was young. We call him a ruler, because Luke said he was a ruler. And we call him rich because all three - Matthew, Luke, and Mark - say that he had a lot of possessions. Whether young or old, whether a ruler or a normal everyday person, this man who came up to Jesus that day was deeply devout and sincere in his faith. He truly wanted to do what God wanted him to do.
