Posts Tagged ‘Mark 7:1-13’
So Much Greater – Br. Lain Wilson
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Genesis 1:20-2:4a
Psalm 8
Mark 7:1-13
This past weekend, I took advantage of the winter storm and went snowshoeing for the first time in my life. The day was clear, and the blanketing of snow transformed the woods into vast expanse of white interrupted only by naked trees, meandering creeks, and animal prints.
And two parallel tracks, left by a cross-country skier, cutting through the woods expertly and daringly along paths I would never have thought to take on my own. But I did take them, obliterating the delicate imprint of skis with my own large and cumbersome tracks.
The great account of humanity’s creation by God in the book of Genesis notes that we were made in God’s “image and likeness” (cf. Gen 1:26, 27) These two words, image and likeness, have been subject to all kinds of interpretation, but for me the most compelling is understanding them in terms of pattern and imagination. That humanity was created with a God-shaped pattern that allows us to imagine God, to relate to God, rightly. The consequence of sin and all the ways that we lead ourselves away, or are led away from God, is to erode that pattern, or to impose on it patterns of our own creation. The imprint of snowshoes wiping away or marking over the ski tracks. Read More
In the Temple of the Lord – Br. James Koester
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1 Kings 8: 22-23, 27-30
Psalm 84
Mark 7: 1-13
In the Temple of the Lord, All are Crying, Glory!
You might know the story of David, how as a boy he killed a giant with a few stones and a slingshot. How as a young man, a jealous king tried to kill him. How ultimately he became king and ruled with wisdom and courage, sort of. How as king he decided to construct a temple for the glory of God in Jerusalem but that God had other plans. It was not David who would build the Temple, but his son Solomon. And what a temple it must have been! Read More
Investing in Life – Br. Curtis Almquist
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Micah 6:6-8
Mark 7:1-13
“Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around [Jesus], they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them.”Mark 7:7:1-2
The criticism about Jesus’ disciples not washing their hands was not the Pharisees’ concern about the spread of germs. This is about ritual purity. The Pharisees believed that in addition to the Ten Commandments, Moses had received other commandments from God which had been communicated privately to the Pharisees down through the generations.