[Propertalk] Sermon Quotes for Proper 19B - 9/13/09 - Part 1

[Joe Parrish]

...just outside of Caesarea Philippi, a village 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee
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...Peter's heart, fracturing into a thousand shards of disappointment so loudly that it drowns out Jesus' final promise, "and be raised on the third day."
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But God employs a different calculus and measures strength not in terms of might but of love, not by victory but vulnerability, not in possessions but in sacrifice, not by glory but by the cross.

http://day1.org/1434-the_heartbreaking_messiah

The Rev. Dr. David Lose, 2009 
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-- Peter was looking for a bailout
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To take up your cross means that we face squarely our limitations. 

To take up your cross means that we realize in the face of sin we are powerless. 

To take up your cross means that we come to terms with our inability to control, finally, and we face our powerlessness.

http://day1.org/1202-was_peter_looking_for_a_bailout

The Rev. Dr. Debra Samuelson, 2009
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Are there individuals in the community today - or in this congregation - you have a hard time accepting because of things they said or did years ago? Are there individuals you have a hard time embracing as your brother or sister in Christ? I don't mean to step on your toes, but I'm here to tell you, if there are, you need to get over it. Jesus calls us to forgive and, if not forget, at least not harbor old grievances from the past. It's one of the costs of discipleship, the giving up of old prejudices.

http://www.lectionary.org/Sermons/McLarty/Mark/Mark%2008.34-38,%20Discipleship.htm

Philip W. McLarty, 2003
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In the last paragraph of his great book entitled Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis has these important lines. "The principle runs through all life, from top to bottom," he says. "Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose life and it will be saved. Submit to death - the death of ambitions and secret wishes. Keep nothing back. Nothing in us that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.

http://day1.org/1008-christ_and_everything_else_thrown_in

The Rev. Dr. Peter Marty, 2006
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Upon his retirement from the Navy my father received a mantel clock that chimed, like a ship's bells, on every quarter hour. For several weeks we were startled every time it struck, but eventually we grew to where we found ourselves wondering if it had quit working, because we hadn't heard it in a long time. It was still fully functioning; we had simply gotten used to it.

http://www.nph.com/nphweb/html/pmol/pastissues/Lent%202006/magmar12.htm

Jim Fitzgerald, 2006
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Pastor Jim said, "You got to heaven and there were no other people. Are you sure it was heaven?"

"Well, yeah. It was heaven. I mean Jesus came finally, and he welcomed me, and I blurted out, I couldn't think of anything else to say, I mean, Jesus right there in front of you in heaven, you'd think . . . , you'd think you could think of something else to say besides, 'Where is everybody?' But that's what I said. I said, 'Where is everybody?' 

And Jesus said something strange to me, he said, 'You were expecting other people?' 

And I said, 'Well, yeah. I'd kinda hoped that maybe my family, you know, or somebody else, anybody else. I mean, am I the only one who made it?'

And Jesus said, 'No, of course not. Lots of other people. God loves everyone. I died for all humanity.'

'Well then why am I the only one here?'

'Well, you know your favorite hymn. You sang it nearly every day of your life, hummed it to yourself, thought about it. "I come to the garden alone," you sang, "and He walks with me and talks with me," but it never mentioned any other people. And when you talked to other people about your faith, you claimed me as your personal savior. And there's nothing wrong with that but your meaning was private. How you imagined me in life is how you get me in death. So here I am, and here you are. Isn't this what you wanted? Isn't this what you wanted? Isn't this what you wanted?....'

http://www.predigten.uni-goettingen.de/archiv-8/060917-6-e.html

Rev. Dr. Luke Bouman, 2006 
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