Show Don't Tell: Mark 12:18-27
Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 12:18-27
This is a show dont tell prompt on homiletics and preaching technique for adults.
Instead of saying "Jesus answered the Sadducees about resurrection," hear the ridiculous scenario. Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, come with a puzzle. Moses wrote that if a man dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must marry the widow. Seven brothers: first marries, dies childless; second takes her, dies; all seven, then the woman. "At the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"…
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