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Mark 9:30-37

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bulletReading the Text:
bullet NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
bullet The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
bulletThe Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
bulletThe World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
bulletHistorical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
bulletThe Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
bulletPrimary comparative texts about Food & Fellowship (including "one who serves"), at (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
bullet "Receiving the Sender," "Leader as Servant," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
bulletSimilitude IX.29, Shepherd of Hermas. (c.145)
bulletXXIV.48-50; XXV.2-3, 9, 11; Tatian's Diatessaron (c. 150-160).
bulletXIII.19, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247)
bulletFrom the Catena Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas.
bulletFrom the Geneva Notes.
bullet"Only humility exalts."
bulletFrom Matthew Henry's Commentary.
bullet"Those who are most humble and self-denying, most resemble Christ, and shall be most tenderly owned by him."
bulletFrom Wesley's Notes.
bullet"One such little child - Either in years or in heart."
bulletFrom the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
bullet"Whosoever shall receive one of such children--so manifesting the spirit unconsciously displayed by this child."
bulletFrom The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
bullet"The two conditions of true greatness are humility and service; not to be the servant of friends, or kindred, or of a class, or even of church members, but of all, like Christ."
bulletContemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
bullet Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
bullet A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 8:27 - 10:52, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers for commentary.)
bullet "Public Education," Resources for Prophetic Worship, Speaking to North Carolina Justice Issues, North Carolina Council of Churches, 2006.
bullet "Jesus Makes His Second Passion Prediction," Michael A. Turton's Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, "a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark."
bullet "First Thoughts on Year B Gospel Passages in the Lectionary: Pentecost 16" William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia, 2003.
bullet"Jesus is challenging both stances: people wanting to use power to establish their own value and people using power as the measure of value of human beings. Jesus subverts both."
bullet "Little Children and God's Kingdom: The Holy Grail of Human Greatness," The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey with Jesus Foundation.
bullet"What would our lives look like if we really believed and acted on these words of Jesus?"
bullet "Jesus Loves All the Little Children of the World," Gospel Analysis, Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
bullet Exegesis, Proper 20B, by Richard Donovan at lectionary.org.
bullet"The cross was a scandal in Jesus' day and in Paul's day, and the cross is still a scandal today...Just witness the popularity of the 'prosperity gospel' which promises Christ's disciples, not a cross, but a Mercedes and a Rolex."
bullet "Who Is the Greatest?", The Way of the Cross: Markan Texts for Late Pentecost, Donald H. Juel, Texts in Context, Word & World, Luther Northwestern Theological School, 1994.
bulletExegetical Thoughts by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
bullet"Who are the "unimportant" in the world today? How does the church relate to them? How should the church relate to them? What might this verse say about the way we do worship?"
bullet Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
bullet "The Powerful Weakness," Ordinary 25B, Fr. Gerry Pierse, C.Ss.R., from Sundays Into Silence: Reflections on the Sunday Gospels in the Light of Christian Meditation. Claretian Publications.
bullet"Much of our traditional prayer is a sort of tour de force, on God - either trying to push him to do our will or to get him on our side to accomplish what we desire. To meditate, on the other hand, is to be weak and powerless, in the secure confidence of God's care and love for us."
bullet "To Serve a Child," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
bullet"When was the last time you cared for a child? What happened?"
bullet Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 25B, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
bullet "Caring for Children in Crisis," study guide for adults, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Children," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2003.
bullet "Teaching Children the Story of Creation," study guide, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Moral Landscape of Creation," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2001.
bullet "The Greatest and the Least," Jerry Goebel, One Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study and activities.
bullet"What if heaven is a place where we “get what we have given?” What if it is a place where we are forgiven as we forgave and our reward for all of our life’s endeavors is the mercy and compassion we have offered to others?"
bullet "Seeing Things," Mary E. Hinkle, The Christian Century, 2003.
bullet"...as the walk progresses, the disciples find their way into a discussion about which of them is the greatest. They are graduate students comparing GRE scores. They are ministers discussing how many they worship each week, as in 'We worship about 430 at both services.' They are anyone who has ever written a memo containing the words 'measurable outcomes.' Which of the disciples is the star pupil? Who is the greatest?"
bullet "Counting Diamonds," Joel Marcus, The Christian Century, 2000. At Religion Online.
bullet"The abandoned baby on the street, the stranger at the door, even our own husband or wife or child, is a diamond, and in receiving and treasuring these diamonds we are receiving the "pearl of great price" that was once hidden on earth as a destitute child of uncertain parentage."
bullet "Servant of All," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
bullet"Dumb, Dumb, Dumb," analysis and reflections by Ed Schroeder, at Sabbatheology by The Crossings Community of St Louis, Missouri.
bullet"James and John finesse their fellow disciples by getting to Jesus first to ask for the right and left hand seats of power. We're inclined to say: "Dumb! dumb! dumb!" But we say that partly because we've read the story to the end. Yet we are doubtless no less "dumb" with the practical theologies of power and glory that tug at our hearts too."
bullet"It's How You Play the Game - But Which Game?" analysis and reflections by Cathy Lessmann at Sabbatheology by The Crossings Community of St Louis, Missouri.
bullet"It's the truly new game: "Unconditional Welcoming." Repentance radically transforms us from eliminators into welcomers."
bulletArticles & Background:
bullet "Mark 9: Teaching in Capernaum," wikipedia.
bullet "Opening Blind Eyes: A Revisioning of Mark 8:22 - 10:52," Marie Noel Keller, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2001.
bullet "Keller argues that Mark uses the stories of the two blind men in his Gospel to serve as metaphors for his community...Their stories and the material within the frame of 8:22-10:52 work together to help his community learn the lessons they need in order to advance from the fear they are experiencing to follow Jesus boldly 'on the way.'"
bullet "Minjung and Power: A Biblical and Theological Perspective on Doularchy (Servanthood)," Kim Yong-Bock, at Religion OnLine.
bullet"The political economy of the Minjung is mutual servanthood and a mutual Bond that makes them sovereign, and turn Arche into Doulos: Doularche, which guarantees the Minjung's participation as Sovereign-in-Bond (Covenant). This is radically different from social contract theories."
bulletArticles in ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are subscribed and logged in to ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
bulletAchtemeier, Paul J., "An Exposition of Mark 9:30-37," Interpretation, 1976.
bulletCrossan, John Dominic, "Kingdom and Children: A Study in the Aphoristic Tradition," Semeia, 1983.
bulletDewey, Joanna, "Women in the Gospel of Mark," Word & World, 2006. (Section on this text begins on page 25.)
bulletFleddermann, Harry, "The Discipleship Discourse (Mark 9:33-50)," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1981.
bulletGundry-Volf, Judith M., "Mark 9:33-37," Interpretation, 1999.
bulletGundry-Volv, Judith, "'To Such as These Belongs the Reign of God': Jesus and Children," Theology Today, 2000.
bulletHinkle, Mary E., "Seeing Things," The Christian Century, 2003.
bulletHoffman, Kathryn Vitalis, and Mark Vitalis Hoffman, "Texts in Context: Question Marks and Turning Points: Following the Gospel of Mark to Surprising Places," Word & World, 2006.
bulletJuel, Donald H., "The Way of the Cross: Markan Texts for Late Pentecost," Word and World, 1994. (Section on Mark 9:30-37 begins on page 354.)
bulletKoyama, Kosuke, "A Holy Mystery: Welcoming a Little Child," The Living Pulpit, 2003.
bulletMarcus, Joel, "Counting Diamonds," The Christian Century, 2000.
bulletMyers, Ched, "As a Child: Jesus' Solidarity with the Least of the Least," The Living Pulpit, 2003.
bulletPerry, John M., "The Three Days in the Synoptic Passion Predictions," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1986.
bulletProctor, Mark, "'After Three Days': Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:34: Subordinating Jesus' Resurrection in the Second Gospel," Perspectives in Religious Studies, 2003.
bulletReedy, Charles J., "Mark 8:31 - 11:10 and the Gospel Ending," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1972.
bulletRobbins, Vernon K., "Pronouncement Stories and Jesus' Blessing of the Children: A Rhetorical Approach," Semeia, 1983.
bulletSantos, Narry F., "Jesus' Paradoxical Teaching in Mark 8:35; 9:35; and 10:43-44," Bibliotheca Sacra, 2000.
bulletStrecker, Georg, "The Passion- and Resurrection Predictions in Mark's Gospel," Interpretation, 1968.
bulletWillimon, William H., "Receiving Little Jesus," The Christian Century, 1985.
bulletReviews:
bulletSermons:
bullet Pentecost 16, 24 September 2006, Jim Mueller, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors.
bullet "Shanghaied," The Rev. Dr. David Galloway, Day 1, 2006.
bullet "Jesus Loves All the Little Children of the World," "A Servant's Heart - Trialogue Sermon," Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.
bullet "Medicine for Dry Bones," the Rev. Grace Imathiu, Day 1, 2000.
bullet "An Incident on the Capernaum Road," John Jewell, 2000.
bulletFather Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily:
bullet Ordinary 25, 2000
bullet Ordinary 25, 2006
bulletWith Children:
bullet "Who Is the Greatest?" Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons), coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts.
bullet "Who Is the Greatest?" Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons4kids.com.
bullet "Judy Babysits Her Younger Brother," children's story by Larry Broding, word-sunday.com.
bullet "Upside Down," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com.
bullet Mark 9 & 10 Crossword, Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
bullet Mark 9:35, memory verse activity, MSSS Crafts and Resources for Bible Stories.
bulletDrama:
bullet "As Small as Mingo," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
bulletGraphics & Bulletin Materials:
bulletClip Art Images: Mark 9:30-37, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
bullet Mark 9:30-37, at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
bullet Mark 9:30-37, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
bulletHymns and Music:
bullet Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
bulletFine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
bulletJesus and the Children
bulletMovies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
bulletChildren as Mediator Figures
bulletServanthood/Serving Others
bullet Clean/Unclean
bulletStudy Links and Resources for the Book of Mark