Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, is one of the earliest writers to record the ancient myth of Narcissus. According to Ovid, after Narcissus’ encounter with Echo, he fled to a river where he knelt down to drink. However, as he was about to drink, he caught sight of his own reflection in the water and fell [...]
February 25, 2010 – 11:44 am
In the mid nineties two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sat in their dorm room at Stanford University and pledged themselves, “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The result was Google, the most powerful and widely used search engine in the world. The word Google is a term [...]
February 18, 2010 – 5:22 pm
It’s fascinating to think about how much time Mark spends demonstrating Jesus’ encounters with human pain and suffering. According to one early church tradition, Mark himself had deformed hands. This may explain his special interest in Peter’s eye witness accounts of Jesus’ healings. Throughout the gospel, we regularly see Jesus encountering the blind, the [...]
February 11, 2010 – 5:39 pm
The following is the my Sermon I preached in chapel on the Orlando Dunnam campus on February 9, 2010 and in Estes Chapel in Wilmore, Kentucky, on February 11, 2010. You can listen to the address on iTunes by clicking here.
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This Sunday is the Sunday when the church around the world remembers the Transfiguration of [...]
February 9, 2010 – 11:30 am
The title of this reflection is “The God Who Passes Us By.” This is the kind of title which may cause a few readers to move quickly on to the next chapter. However, this particular passage falls into a category of miracles in the New Testament of which there are very few examples. Indeed, [...]
January 26, 2010 – 12:44 pm
Christianity, when it is true to itself, proclaims the power, healing and transformation which is found in Jesus Christ. The moment that any Christian movement loses its focus on the person of Jesus Christ, it ceases to be fully, wholly Christian. It is the person of Jesus Christ which makes us the people of God.
This [...]
January 21, 2010 – 4:00 pm
In these two texts from Mark’s gospel we find a stunning contrast. We are met with that which appears to be indestructible, but is, in fact, quite destructible; and that which appears so vulnerable and destructible and which is, in fact, indestructible. In Mark 13 the disciples are walking with Jesus and they are admiring [...]
January 19, 2010 – 3:47 pm
Jesus’ parable of the Sower is often treated as the parable of the Soils. We spend a great deal of time analyzing the different soils in the passage, because after all, the Sower and the seed are always the same; it is the quality of the soils that results in different levels of responsiveness. Jesus [...]
January 14, 2010 – 11:08 am
This passage opens with Jesus simply walking through a field with His disciples. Mark, along with the other gospel writers, takes note of several times when Jesus is just walking along, going from one place to another, and along the way things happen and lives are changed. Recall the time Jesus was walking along on [...]
