Devotional: Clobbering the Clobber Texts
Dear God of grace and truth, Martin Luther once said that Scripture is the cradle in which Christ is laid. Yet we confess that too...
This is devotionals, drawing on Mark 10:42-45. It carries an emotional tone of hope, compassion and joy.
Dear God of grace and truth, Martin Luther once said that Scripture is the cradle in which Christ is laid. Yet we confess that too often we have wielded that cradle like a weapon — swinging sacred words at the very people You came to gather in. Mark 10:42-45 cuts through our pretensions: "You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them.…
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