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Not Quite Getting It (Mark 11:1-11)
Douglass Church - Douglass Blvd Christian Church
English - March 25, 2024 13:45 - 33.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Spirituality disciple christ progressive christian church open affirming lgbt justice sermon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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So, when Jesus arrived on the scene, Palestine was desperate for another messiah, a hero, someone to rally the oppressed locals to finally kick the Roman interlopers out of Palestine. They needed, in short, a messiah acquainted with the business end of a sword.
I suspect you can imagine that when Jesus starts talking about humiliation and death as his vision of messiahship, how it is that so many people completely fail to hear him. They didn’t quite get it.
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