weekly enote
transcript
Jan. 14, 2022
Good Friday Village family, I hope you are well.
I missed you last Sunday. I was away with my family. We all gathered in Louisiana to celebrate my brother Jean's 60th birthday. It was a big day for him and it was a big day for all of us. So I thank you for that time that I could be away and be attentive to him.
I'm profoundly grateful for our colleague and pastor Rev. Dr. Nishioka for his wonderful sermon on the baptism of Jesus, as he reminds us all that we are beloved children of the living God.
We continue this Sunday our conversation with Mark. We’re moving kind of slowly at the beginning here. We're still in chapter one verses 12 and 13. It's in these two verses that Mark describes what we call the Temptation of Jesus. If you read this story in Matthew or Luke—it’s in chapter four in both of those gospels—there's much more detail. Both Matthew and Luke give us a bit of the conversation between Jesus and the Tempter. Mark tells us none of that; Mark's detail is spare. And yet, if I understand it, I think these two verses—chapter one verses 12 and 13—I think these two verses provide for us a lens to interpret and understand the rest of Mark's gospel. And if that's the case, these two verses provide a lens for us to understand and interpret our lives as well. And so, I think it's an important story and I'm eager to unpack it a bit with you on Sunday. So I hope you'll join us either in our worship hours in our sanctuaries here at Mission or at Antioch or join us online. But I look forward to sharing the wisdom and the spiritual guidance we can get from these brief verses in Mark chapter one verses 12 and 13—the Temptation of Jesus.
Look, I hope that that you're well, and I hope that your eyes are open to see signs of grace that surround us always. And I look forward to returning to worship with you on Sunday.
Shalom,
Tom
Good Friday Village family, I hope you are well.
I missed you last Sunday. I was away with my family. We all gathered in Louisiana to celebrate my brother Jean's 60th birthday. It was a big day for him and it was a big day for all of us. So I thank you for that time that I could be away and be attentive to him.
I'm profoundly grateful for our colleague and pastor Rev. Dr. Nishioka for his wonderful sermon on the baptism of Jesus, as he reminds us all that we are beloved children of the living God.
We continue this Sunday our conversation with Mark. We’re moving kind of slowly at the beginning here. We're still in chapter one verses 12 and 13. It's in these two verses that Mark describes what we call the Temptation of Jesus. If you read this story in Matthew or Luke—it’s in chapter four in both of those gospels—there's much more detail. Both Matthew and Luke give us a bit of the conversation between Jesus and the Tempter. Mark tells us none of that; Mark's detail is spare. And yet, if I understand it, I think these two verses—chapter one verses 12 and 13—I think these two verses provide for us a lens to interpret and understand the rest of Mark's gospel. And if that's the case, these two verses provide a lens for us to understand and interpret our lives as well. And so, I think it's an important story and I'm eager to unpack it a bit with you on Sunday. So I hope you'll join us either in our worship hours in our sanctuaries here at Mission or at Antioch or join us online. But I look forward to sharing the wisdom and the spiritual guidance we can get from these brief verses in Mark chapter one verses 12 and 13—the Temptation of Jesus.
Look, I hope that that you're well, and I hope that your eyes are open to see signs of grace that surround us always. And I look forward to returning to worship with you on Sunday.
Shalom,
Tom
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