A sermon offered on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, October 3, 2021, at St. Barnabas in Roanoke, AL. “In claiming a rigid teaching on Christian marriage, we miss the important lessons that Jesus is offering in his shocking words. In this moment, Jesus is showing us how to read scripture. Jesus reads the passages of Deuteronomy in light of the passages in Genesis because it is in Genesis that God’s intentions, God’s hopes, God’s desire for creation can be found.”
Principal text: Mark 10:2-16
The hard questions