Preaching the Gospel of Mark: Proclaiming the Power of GodWestminster John Knox Press, 2008 M01 1 - 300 pages In this engaging treatment of the Gospel of Mark, Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm combines biblical scholarship with a close reading of the Gospel text to meet the needs of preachers today. Swift and purposeful, the Gospel of Mark proclaims God's reign and urges the participation of all God's people in the witness of the good news that God has transformed human reality through Jesus Christ. This insightful commentary helps that message come alive while providing pertinent suggestions about how preachers can proclaim this message to today's churchgoers. |
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Page 167 - Enviest thou for my sake ? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them ! And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Page 243 - Again the high priest asked him, and saith unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.
Page 75 - And though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us. The prince of darkness grim, — We tremble not for him ; His rage we can endure, For lo ! his doom is sure, — One little word shall fell him.
Page 242 - We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.
Page 289 - Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root; Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees...
Page 184 - You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
Page 297 - At its simplest the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt about its precise application to tease it into active thought' (The Parables of the Kingdom, 1934, p.
Page 30 - Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.
Page 129 - Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs.
Page 214 - Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine Scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all.