[Propertalk] Fw: SermonWriter materials for Oct. 25 (Proper 25B) on Mark 10:46-52

[Joe Parrish]

The following are SermonWriter materials for Oct. 25 (Proper 25B). They focus on Mark 10:46-52, where Jesus asks blind Bartimaeus, "What do you want me to do for you?"

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Dick Donovan


A THOUGHT ON PREACHING:  Instead of trying to dazzle people with the breadth of our learning or to pass on lots of secondhand information that may or may not be existentially relevant to their situations, I can help most when I am honest enough to lay bare my own wounds and acknowledge what is saving and helping me. Truth that I have found, or better still, truth that has found me -- this is the sort of material that rightly belongs in the preaching event.  (John Claypool -- courtesy of Fr. Charles Hoffacker)


TITLE:  What Should Jesus Do for You?


SERMON IN A SENTENCE:  Your answer to Jesus' question, "What do you want me to do for you?" will tell you what you think it would take for Jesus to save you.


SCRIPTURE:  Mark 10:46-52


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FOR MORE SERMONS ON THIS TEXT, GO TO:

http://www.lectionary.org/SermLinks/NT/NT02_Mark.htm

Scroll down to Mark 10.  There are two sermons on this text posted there.


TRUE STORY:

When I was a little boy, I studied piano, and my mother was my teacher.  When it came time for a recital, my mother made me go over the conclusion again and again.  I had to get it down perfect!  "Keep on practicing the conclusion, Bob.  Learn those last measures!" she used to say.  "Look, Bob, you can make a mistake in the beginning; or you can make a mistake in the middle; the people will forget it -- if you make the ending glorious!"  Make the ending glorious!

I don't know what kind of childhood you had.  I don't know what kind of life you had.  I don't know where you are now!  But where you are now, Jesus is present.  Take Him into your life now, and I can tell you the ending will be glorious!

Robert Schuller, Life Changers


THOUGHT PROVOKERS:

Salvation isn't what liberals or conservatives in this country think it is. It's about getting my life straight. It's not about ultimate significance. Salvation is about an adventure that was made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, through which I am made part of a community who will tell me who I am. You are not free to make up your life as a Christian. Your life is not like a gift, your life is a gift. That is a very important grammatical point. Until you learn to receive your life gift, you are lost. And people are lost.

Stanley Hauerwas

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When Jesus prayed to the one who could save him from death,
he did not get that salvation;
he got instead the salvation of the world.

Philip Yancey

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For as the devil through pride
leads man from pride to death,
so Christ through lowliness
leads back man through obedience to life.

St. Augustine

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Jesus Christ is God's everything
for man's total need.

Richard Halverson

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The terms for "salvation" in many languages
are derived from roots like salvus, saos, whole, heil,
which all designate health,
the opposite of disintegration and disruption.
Salvation is healing in the ultimate sense;
it is final cosmic and individual healing.

Paul Tillich

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HYMN STORY:  There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

The author of this hymn, Frederick William Faber, was raised as a Huguenot, but went to Oxford and was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1837.  He then came to know John Henry Newman, the famous Catholic priest (and later Cardinal).  Under Newman's influence, Faber was re-baptized and re-ordained as a Catholic priest.

Faber was an admirer of good poetry, and became good friends with the poet, William Wordsworth.  The two of them would often take long walks together in the mountains.

Knowing the power of hymns in the Protestant tradition, Faber wanted to make hymn-singing more important in the Catholic tradition.  He wrote a number of hymns, of which this and "Faith of Our Fathers" are the best known today.

"There's a Wideness in God's Mercy" celebrates the wideness of God's mercy -- "like the wideness of the sea."  It celebrates God's welcome for the sinner and the "good" person alike.  It reminds us that "the love of God is broader than the measure of our mind" -- and therefore encourages us to broaden the measure of our own love so that it might be more like God's love.  And, finally, it calls us to "rest upon God's word" so that "our lives (might be) illumined by the presence of our Lord."


NOTE:  See other hymn stories at http://www.lectionary.org/hymnstories.htm



BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Barclay, William, The Daily Study Bible: Gospel of Mark (Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1954)

Boring, M. Eugene, The New Testament Library, Mark, A Commentary (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006)

Brooks, James A, The New American Commentary: Mark (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991)

Brueggemann, Walter; Cousar, Charles B.; Gaventa, Beverly R.; and Newsome, James D., Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV -- Year B (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993)

Craddock, Fred B.; Hayes, John H.; Holladay, Carl R.; Tucker, Gene M., Preaching Through the Christian Year, B (Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1993)

Donahue, John R. and Harrington, Daniel J., Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Mark (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2002)

Edwards, James R., The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to Mark (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002)

Evans, Craig A., Word Biblical Commentary: Mark 8:27 -- 16:20 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001)

France, R.T., The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Gospel of Mark (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002)

Geddert, Timothy J., Believers Church Bible Commentary: Mark (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2001)

Grant, Frederick C. and Luccock, Halford E., The Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 7 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1951)

Hare, Douglas R. A., Westminster Bible Companion: Mark (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)

Hooker, Morna D., Black's New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to Saint Mark (Hendrickson Publishers, 1991)

Hurtado, Larry W., New International Biblical Commentary:  Mark (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1983, 1989)

Lane, William L., The New International Commentary on the New Testament: The Gospel of Mark (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1974)

Moule, C.F.D., The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible: The Gospel of Mark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965)

Perkins, Pheme, The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. VIII (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995)

Williamson, Lamar Jr., Interpretation: Mark (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1983)

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