Read the Lectionary Texts Greatness. True greatness. That's what our Scripture text today is about. Greatness. True greatness. Jesus and the disciples are about to arrive in Jerusalem. The Gospel of Mark gives us a series of stories about events and conversations taking place toward the end of Jesus' life as they journey from Galilee to the Holy City. The stories are all tied together by the three little words “on the way”, and each one is a lesson in what it means to be a true disciple. Today we come to the final story “on the way”. [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts When I was a young Sunday School student, we used to have an annual Christmas party. After all the obligatory religious stuff was over the party finally culminated in the moment we'd all been waiting for - the arrival of Santa Claus! And into the hall Santa would bound, bells ringing, ho-ho-ho'ing, looking a little bit like Jack H., the boys sixth grade Sunday School teacher. But when we asked Mrs. H. if it was Jack, she assured us that Jack had had to - ah - run out - ah - to - [READ MORE]