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| Lent 2009 Reading Group; Reading together for Lent | |
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| Rootfroot | Wednesday, 1. April 2009, 21:34 Post #61 |
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Week 6 Gospel Mark 11:1-10 (New International Version) Mark 11 The Triumphal Entry 1As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' tell him, 'The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.' " 4They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5some people standing there asked, "What are you doing, untying that colt?" 6They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. 9Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" 10"Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!" "Hosanna in the highest!" |
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| Rootfroot | Wednesday, 1. April 2009, 21:36 Post #62 |
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Week 6 2nd Reading Philippians 2:1-11 (New International Version) Philippians 2 Imitating Christ's Humility 1If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. |
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| Rootfroot | Sunday, 5. April 2009, 20:43 Post #63 |
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The crowd shouted "Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!". I wonder what sort of kingdom they had in mind. What do we imagine when we pray "Thy kingdom come"? Does it truly encompass the idea of following the servant king to his cross? How earnestly do we pray for the kingdom to come? Personally I've hardly begun to focus by the time I reach that point in the Lord's Prayer. |
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| KatyA | Sunday, 5. April 2009, 21:20 Post #64 |
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Some of those shouting "Hosanna" on Palm Sunday would be shouting "Crucify him" on Good Friday. Perhaps "selfish ambition or vain conceit" made it difficult to accept that the kingdom was not to be as they expected, an earthly kingdom. We haven't changed, we still find it difficult to accept that anything we are unable to understand may be God's Will. KatyA |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 6. April 2009, 00:22 Post #65 |
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They had had three years to find out. |
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| Rootfroot | Monday, 6. April 2009, 13:00 Post #66 |
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On a human level, this refusal to accept Jesus' clear teaching is explicable because it was just too intoxicating to build him up and then knock him down. It's celebrity obsession I'm afraid. I do not believe we, as a generation, invented that nasty phenomenon. |
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