Tag: christianity

  • Fifth Sunday of Easter & Sixth Sunday of Easter, 28th April & 5th May 2024

    John 15:1-1715:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 15:2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 15:3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 15:4 Abide in…

  • Resurrection of the Lord, 31st March, 2024, Easter Day

    Mark 16:1-816:1 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 16:2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 16:3 They had been saying to one…

  • Preaching Paths 31 March 2024 Easter Yr B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Mark’s gospel ends with Easter morning (Mk 16:1-8). Three women carry burial spices to the tomb “early in the morning, when the sun had risen.” They are relieved, at first, when they see from a distance that the immense stone closing the tomb has been rolled aside. …

  • Preaching Paths 24 March 2024 Palm Sunday Yr B

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary According to Mark 11:1-11, Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem a few days before Passover is undertaken with forethought. Mark devotes half of today’s lection to the matter of borrowing a “colt” for Jesus to ride. There is no need to invoke supernatural forces to account for the local…

  • Preaching Paths 17 March 2024

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Today’s gospel lection, John 12:20-33, forms part of the “bridge” in John between Jesus’ public ministry and his Passion (arrest, trial, crucifixion, resurrection).  In John, Jesus refers to this as his “glorification”—the revealing, through his dying, of the glory of the Father  (Jn 1:14, 18). John’s gospel…

  • Second Sunday in Lent, 25th February, 2024

    Mark 8:31-388:31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 8:32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.…

  • First Sunday in Lent, 18th February 2024

    Mark 1:9-151:9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 1:10 And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. 1:11 And a voice came from heaven, “You are…

  • Transfiguration Sunday, 11th February 2024 (Last Sunday before Lent)

    Mark 9:2-99:2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 9:3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. 9:4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses,…

  • Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, 28th January, 2024

    Mark 1:21-281:21 They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. 1:22 They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. 1:23 Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, 1:24 and he cried…