by jakeowensby | Sep 3, 2021 | Mark 7:24-37
“Would it kill you to give us a break here?” That’s what a prayer for help can sound like when we’re raw with fatigue. It’s a little edgy. Maybe not so pious-sounding. But there’s an honesty and sincerity about it. It’s the earnest prayer of the overwhelmed. It’s...
by jakeowensby | Sep 4, 2015 | Listening, Mark 7:24-37, Proper 18 B, Reconciliation
Listen to AudioFor those accustomed to modern pictures depicting smiling Jesus and mild-mannered, freshly scrubbed Jesus, Mark’s account of Jesus’s exchange with the Syrophoenician woman does not compute. A woman begs for mercy, not for herself, but for her tormented...
