2/14/16
Chris Breslin
Mark 10:17-31
The Place Where We Are Right
by Yehuda Amichai
From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the Spring.
The place where we are right
is hard and trampled
like a yard.
But doubts and loves
dig up the world
like a mole, a plough.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
where the ruined
house once stood.
“God is establishing God’s rulership over ‘the creation that God created” –Rhoads/Dewey
“It seems to me that Christians mangle this story in at least two ways. First, by acting as if it were not about money, and second, by acting as if it were only about money.” –Barbara Brown Taylor
“Cancer has kicked down the walls of my life. I cannot be certain I will walk my son to his elementary school someday or subject his love interests to cheerful scrutiny. I struggle to buy books for academic projects I fear I can’t finish for a perfect job I may be unable to keep…Cancer requires that I stumble around in the debris of dreams I thought I was entitled to and plans I didn’t realize I had made.” –Kate Bowler
Further Mark Reading
The Gospel According to St. Mark by Morna Hooker
King’s Cross/Jesus the King by Tim Keller
Mark (NICNT Commentary) William Lane
Mark (Anchor Bible Commentary) by Joel Marcus
Binding the Strong Man by Ched Meyers
Mark (Belief Commentary) by William Placher
Mark as Story by David Rhoads & Joanna Dewey
Meeting God in Mark by Rowan Williams
How God Became King by N.T. Wright
Mark for Everyone by N.T. Wright
Further Lenten Reading
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
The Death of the Messiah by Raymond Brown
I Am With You (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2016 Lent Book) by Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
He Became Like Us: Christ’s Identification with Man by Carlyle Marney
Death on a Friday Afternoon by Richard John Neuhaus
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross by Arthur Pink
Abiding (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2013 Lent Book) by Ben Quash
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
Looking Through the Cross (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2014 Lent Book) by Graham Tomlin
In God’s Hands (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2015 Lent Book) by Desmond Tutu
Passion and Power (Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2007 Lent Book) by Sam Wells
Thank God it’s Friday by Will Willimon
