The Rev. Joseph Peters-Mathews is the vicar of St. Hilda St. Patrick. This sermon was preached as a response to Mark 10.32-45. It was preached extemporaneously based on the notes below.
- Sounds familiar, repetition
- Setting, prediction, misunderstanding, teaching on discipleship
- Road to Jerusalem. Will die.
- No argument! Still don’t get it
- We don’t get it. Outside impacts church -> budget, Average Sunday Attendance. Christians -> Best, #1
- Taking up cross? Dying to self? Welcoming marginalized? Rejecting wealth? Trusting Jesus like children?
- Amazed and afraid, but don’t try to talk out.
- Don’t know asking.
- Chiefly in showing mercy and pity for power
- James and John say they can face baptism and cup — they will
- Even in misunderstanding, Jesus doesn’t give up
- God shows power w/ mercy & pity — on all disciples, who don’t earn it. God just loves us. All of us.
- Even when we’re afraid, even when we don’t trust, even when we’re amazed
- Jesus doesn’t rebuke James and John -> he reorients them to his reign made near.
- Jesus calls us back to him, showing power with mercy and pity, inviting us to do the same.