Listen to Readings and Sermon O God save me by the power of your Name; defend me by your might! God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. Strangers attack me; ruthless scoundrels seek my life; they don’t give God a single thought. For you are my helper, the One who sustains [...]
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O God save me by the power of your Name; defend me by your might! God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. Strangers attack me; ruthless scoundrels seek my life; they don’t give God a single thought. For you are my helper, the One who sustains my life. May their own malice recoil on my slanderers; silence them with your truth. I will offer you a willing sacrifice and praise your Name… for it is good. You have rescued me from every trouble; I have seen my enemies’ downfall with my own eyes.
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The Good News Written
The Light of John & Lyn St. Clair Thomas
“Your questions indicate the depth of your belief. Look at the depth of your questions.”
The Light of the Psalter (Psalm 1, The Inclusive Bible, PFE)
Happiness comes to those who reject the path of violence… Happiness comes to those who delight in the [divine] Law… and meditate on it day and night. They’re like trees planted by flowing water — they bear fruit in every season, and their leaves never wither; everything they do will prosper… [The Eternal] watches over the steps of those who do justice; but those on a path of violence and injustice will find themselves irretrievably lost.
Mark 9.33-37 (The Inclusive Bible, Priests for Equality)
33[Jesus and his disciples] returned home to Capernaum. Once they were inside the house, Jesus began to ask them, “What were you discussing on the way home?” 34At this they fell silent, for on the way they had been arguing about who among them was the most important. 35So Jesus sat down and called the Twelve over and said, “If any of you wants to be first, you must be the last one of all and at the service of all.” 36Then Jesus brought a little child into their midst and, putting his arm around the child, said to them, 37“Whoever welcomes a child such as this for my sake welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the One who sent me.”
The Good News Proclaimed
Preached by the Reverend Doctor Mona West at the Sunshine Cathedral on Sunday, September 20, 2009.
Well, it is September and this time of year always makes me think about the holidays. What do you remember about holidays as a child? I remember the food. I remember that for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner there was always a children’s table. I never could figure out if the children’s table was a good or bad thing… Was it to exile us from the bigger celebration and the world of the adults, or was it to make us special — our own table to be free to make as big a mess as we wanted and to be as loud as we wanted.
The passage we heard from Mark’s gospel today features a child. Actually there are two children that get mentioned in the larger chapter of Mark. Earlier Jesus and Peter and James and John come down off the mountain after Jesus has been “transfigured” by a dazzling brightness to find the other disciples arguing with a crowd of people. In the same manner that Jesus asked the disciples in our passage for today, he says to the disciples in the crowd, “What are you arguing about?”
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