Sermon January 22, 2017 – Rev. Nancy Bidlespacher
We have just heard the text from the gospel of Mark 3:19-21: “Then [Jesus] went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’”
The King James Version of the Bible translates the concern of Jesus’ family for him in these words: “He is beside himself.” The old J. B. Phillips New Testament translates it, “People were saying, ‘He must be mad!’” But my favorite is from the 1995 contemporary English Version, which says, “When Jesus’ family heard what he was doing, they thought he was crazy and went to get him under control.”
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I think we call it All Saints’ Day. It’s not called “All the Same Day”; it’s All Saints’ Day, because, though they were fallible and mortal, and sinners like the rest of us, when push came to shove, the people we honor as saints marched to the beat of a different drummer. In their lifetimes, they made a difference for the kingdom of …show more content…
She was the author of a fictional work titled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
The influence of that book was so powerful that Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said, upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time, “So this is the little lady who started this great war!”
When Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple Inc., died, an old Apple commercial from the 90s went viral on YouTube. It was a commercial that aired in 1997 and that attempted to re-brand Apple products. The tag line for the commercial and the company was “Think different,” a phrase that is grammatically incorrect – which is part of the point.
In the commercial, they showed a collage of photographs and film footage of people who have invented and inspired, created and sacrificed to improve the world, to make a difference. Photographs of Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Maria Callas, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Henson, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Mahatma Gandhi, and on and on and on. As the images rolled by, a voice read this
We have just heard the text from the gospel of Mark 3:19-21: “Then [Jesus] went home; and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, ‘He has gone out of his mind.’”
The King James Version of the Bible translates the concern of Jesus’ family for him in these words: “He is beside himself.” The old J. B. Phillips New Testament translates it, “People were saying, ‘He must be mad!’” But my favorite is from the 1995 contemporary English Version, which says, “When Jesus’ family heard what he was doing, they thought he was crazy and went to get him under control.”
Forgive me for saying it this way, …show more content…
I think we call it All Saints’ Day. It’s not called “All the Same Day”; it’s All Saints’ Day, because, though they were fallible and mortal, and sinners like the rest of us, when push came to shove, the people we honor as saints marched to the beat of a different drummer. In their lifetimes, they made a difference for the kingdom of …show more content…
She was the author of a fictional work titled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
The influence of that book was so powerful that Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said, upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe for the first time, “So this is the little lady who started this great war!”
When Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple Inc., died, an old Apple commercial from the 90s went viral on YouTube. It was a commercial that aired in 1997 and that attempted to re-brand Apple products. The tag line for the commercial and the company was “Think different,” a phrase that is grammatically incorrect – which is part of the point.
In the commercial, they showed a collage of photographs and film footage of people who have invented and inspired, created and sacrificed to improve the world, to make a difference. Photographs of Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Maria Callas, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Henson, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Mahatma Gandhi, and on and on and on. As the images rolled by, a voice read this