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Holy Week Tuesday part of Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by NT Wright; Contributed by SPCK - N T Wright

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Holy Week Tuesday

Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B

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Lent for Everyone
Mark Year B
HOLY WEEK TUESDAY...

...Two generations ago, J. B. Phillips (best known for his translation of the New Testament) published a little book called Your God Is Too Small. It was a moving appeal for ordinary Christians to lift up their eyes and imaginations, and to realize that God is not simply a therapist, concerned with the humdrum, day-to-day matters of their personal lives and problems, but is the glorious sovereign of heaven and earth. We all need that kind of reminder on a regular basis.

But there is, perhaps, a more subtle point which needs to be made as well. When people start to get the point about the sovereignty, majesty and glory of the one true God, it is often difficult for them at the same time to glimpse and grasp the real divine greatness which the gospel stories reveal. But if we don’t get this point, as well as the larger one, we will fall back once more into the mistake of James and John, celebrating the greatness of God and hoping that some of that greatness will rub off on us in the usual, worldly sense...

Taken from Lent for Everyone Mark Year B by Tom Wright

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