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<DIV><FONT size=4>My own tendency is to demonize James and John, but Jesus
treats their ambition as worthy of redemption. I am reminded of how earlier in
this chapter a rich man bragged that he had kept all the commandments. Then
Jesus, "looking at him, loved him," we are told (Mark 10:21).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3457"><FONT
size=4>http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3457</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Stephen B. Chapman, 2006</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=4>Many people think of religion as a way of
avoiding or getting around reality, and of the Bible as a kind of holy religious
book. Both assumptions are very far from the truth. One of the reasons why the
story of Jesus is so powerful is that it is so human and so simple. It is a
story of human venality and ambition, of trial and error, weakness and strength.
It is a story with which most of us can identify.<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleB/B_29thSunOT.htm">http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleB/B_29thSunOT.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Gerry Pierse</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Think of waiters or waitresses in our own culture. A good
waiter or waitress must be part entertainer (making good "small talk") when the
order is placed, timely provider of food and drink, and invisible guide, ever to
provide assistance, yet at a discrete distance. They are to leave us alone when
we desire privacy, but approach immediately when we need help. They are to serve
us and, in doing so, they lead us through the meal.</DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/b/29-b/A-29-b.html">http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/b/29-b/A-29-b.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Larry Broding</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Jesus remains a scandal to those who aspire to greatness, a
Savior to those who know him as one who was also "subject to weakness" (Heb.
5:2) and has become our High Priest, "the source of our eternal salvation for
all who obey him" (Heb. 5:9). If it's greatness we all might wish for, the path
is still downward (and upward at the same time), as Jesus has made ever so clear
by his life and death, and even in his resurrection, still pointing to what is
below: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me
something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you
gave me clothing. I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you
visited me...'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these
who are members of my family, you did it to me'" (Matt. 25:35-36, 40).
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.crossings.org/theology/2009/theolo751.shtml">http://www.crossings.org/theology/2009/theolo751.shtml</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Ron Starenko, 2009</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>In fact, when Jesus came into his kingdom, it was to be a
criminal on his right and another on his left </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_29.htm">http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_29.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Most of us would give up Easter if we could also do without
Good Friday.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n27_v111/ai_15805793/">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n27_v111/ai_15805793/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Martin B. Copenhaver, 1994</FONT></DIV>
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<P>The other day I was talking to a man who has become a close friend of a
Hungarian government official. "Have you ever met a real-live, lifetime, 100 per
cent atheist?" he asked. <>"There’s not a damn bit of difference between
her and me. She isn’t somebody strange; she is just like your average, everyday,
commonsense American. Like me, she never wonders, ‘What does God want me to do
now?’ Like me, she doesn’t lose sleep expecting God to come down and do
something about the world. She just goes about her life, deciding on the basis
of what’s in her own best interest, what’s practical, what’s possible. That
little ‘godless communist’ could pass for you or me anytime."</P></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=996">http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=996</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>William Willimon, 1986</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The goal of the teacher must be to enable the pupil to become
independent of the teacher. The pupil must eventually be able to learn without
the teacher. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><A
href="http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=316">http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=316</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Diogenes Allen, 1998</FONT></DIV>
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