Receiving as an act of Love
The Rev. Robert P. Travis
Pentecost 18th Sunday Sermon
– 8:00am and 10:30am Church of the Ascension, Knoxville TN
RCL Proper 21 Year B 9/30/2012
Scripture Text: Esther 7:1-6,9-10; 9:20-22, Psalm 124, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:38-50 Sermon Text: I'm going to ask you to do something a little difficult this morning, I'm going to ask you to remember the end of the gospel passage from last week, so that we can have an entrance into the Gospel passage for this week.
Do you remember it? Ok, well, then I'll give it to you, because honestly, when I was preparing this, I had to look back at it myself to remember what Jesus said.
In the last verse in last week's Gospel, Jesus said “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
Now there's a subtle second meaning in that verse that we often don't get, but it's necessary to what we're reading today. In Aramaic, the language Jesus was speaking, Th…
Scripture Text: Esther 7:1-6,9-10; 9:20-22, Psalm 124, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:38-50 Sermon Text: I'm going to ask you to do something a little difficult this morning, I'm going to ask you to remember the end of the gospel passage from last week, so that we can have an entrance into the Gospel passage for this week.
Do you remember it? Ok, well, then I'll give it to you, because honestly, when I was preparing this, I had to look back at it myself to remember what Jesus said.
In the last verse in last week's Gospel, Jesus said “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
Now there's a subtle second meaning in that verse that we often don't get, but it's necessary to what we're reading today. In Aramaic, the language Jesus was speaking, Th…