Jesus, an impossible Master to follow? (Mark 9:33-37, 10:13-43)
Sermon preached by Pastor Samuel Niblack, 13th March 2022
At the moment, the whole world is challenged by the Ukrainian President Zelensky. He restored our faith and taste in values such as courage, the spirit of sacrifice for others, renunciation, qualities so rare among world leaders today. As you may know he had a career as an actor in a show called “Servant of the people”. The West is surprised to see a leader who really seems to serve the people and we can see real greatness. True greatness is not giving yourself airs of greatness. True strength is not a bigger army. Science should celebrate when the strong crush the weak, and yet that is not what our hearts find.
All of this shows that the Bible is topical, because Jesus is the first to speak like that, the only one to make it the heart of his message…
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