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Year B - Ordinary 25 Video Response

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Children in the Center of the Assembly

by Clint Schnekloth

Gospel Reading:  Mark 9:30-37

For Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012: Year B - Ordinary 25

Chapter nine of Mark sits right at the center of the gospel. Since Mark is structured chiastically...

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Wisdom

by Clint Schnekloth

Apocrypha Reading:  Wisdom 1:16—2:1, 12-22

For Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012: Year B - Ordinary 25

Inevitably if you preach on this text, someone is going to ask how Wisdom came to be a...

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Year B - Ordinary 24 Video Response

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Real World: Galilee

by Mike Baughman

Epistle Reading:  Mark 8:27-38

For Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 24

Chances are at some point in your life, you found yourself sucked into an episode or two of The Real World

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Brains, Reins and a Tiller

by Mike Baughman

Epistle Reading: James 3:1-12

For Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012: Year B—Ordinary 24

In this week’s lectionary text on leadership and tongues, the potential significance of the small and...

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Jesus Getting Caught with His Compassion Down

by Carl Gregg

Gospel Reading: Mark 7:24-37

For Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012: Year B — Ordinary 23

Letty Russell, in Church in the Round, described Jesus’ encounter with the Syrophoenician woman as the case...

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Is The Book of James Proto-Marxist?

by Carl Gregg

Epistle Reading:  James 2:1-14

For Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012: Year B — Ordinary 23

Martin Luther dismissively called The Book of James a “right strawy epistle.” Luther wanted to base the...

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Year B - Ordinary 22 Video Response

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Praise Messiah

by Russell Rathbun

Psalm Reading:  Psalm 45

For Sunday, Sept. 2 , 2012—Ordinary 22

How helpful is it to believe in a story which perpetually promises that God will make everything better in the...

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