Podcasts about mark 7:24-37

Mark 7:24-37 New International Version Jesus Honors a Syrophoenician ...

Proper 18 (23) Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year B, 2023-2024)Scripture Readings: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23, Psalm 125, James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17, Mark 7:24-37

Proper 18 (23) Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Year B, 2020-2021)Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23, Psalm 125, James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17, Mark 7:24-37

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Join us as Daniel Meadows continues our series in the book of Mark with, “Mark 7:24-37”

Churches often erect barriers that prevent - or at least make it difficult - for new people to find a place to fit in a congregation. This is not always conscious or intentional. Is this sermon, Pastor Harrell uses the story of Jesus and Syrophoenecian woman as a way to get us to examine our own attitudes and actions toward those we may perceive as outsiders. Whether the barriers we create to belonging are intentional or not, Jesus challenges us to find ways to tear them down.

Proper 18 - Sunday after Pentecost (Year B) Proverbs 22:1-2 8-9 22-23, Psalm 125, James 2:1-10 (11-13) 14-17, Mark 7:24-37

John talks about how as Christians we are to be both within our culture and outside it so that we can offer a vision of another way. And this is not easy, as we can see from all our readings. The pull back is strong, and often “The Church” is shaped by the values, fears, prejudices of our surrounding culture the same as every other institution. A case in point is how do we respond to the refugee crisis?