Mark Introduction

I find it very interesting to watch the way Christians handle the ten commandments. On the one hand, they have become an icon of our Christian culture, so that nobody wants to claim that they don’t keep them. They’re regarded as a foundational and basic icon, so we keep trying to make them the firm…

Acts 5:27-32 Psalm 118:14-29 or Psalm 150 Revelation 1:4-8 John 20:19-31

For Proper 15B the gospel reading is John 6:51-58, which continues from the previous reading.  In that reading, Jesus barely got started with the gritty physical metaphors, and the people were offended and resistant.  This theme of offense will surface many times in portion of John in which Jesus is addressing the crowd in general….

I have just added the RefTagger module to this site.  It seems like a valuable adjunct to a site that has as many Bible references as this one. I have set the default version to TNIV.  I may change that from time to time just to keep people thinking!  

I’m including audio of my lecture on 1 Corinthians 6 from 2003.  This is more than 20 minutes of audio, so be prepared for the download times.  {audio}03_1_Cor_6.mp3{/audio}