Posts by Greg Yarnell
March 3rd Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background
March 3 Readings Read Mark 10:17-52 Myers, Chapters 14 &15, pages 124-139 Background: Part two of the discipleship catechism focuses on economics and leadership. Myers says that “our addiction to affluence” is the most pervasive and difficult of human addictions. We learn why Jesus is unable to grant the…
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March 10 Readings Read Mark 11:1-13:37 Myers, Chapters 16, 17, 18, pages 143-180 Background: Jesus entry into Jerusalem is street theater. His strategy is to break “the spell of credulity”—the net cast over all people. Myers invites us to examine “texts of terror”—those biblical stories that are particularly violent—and offers guidelines for…
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March 17 Readings Read Mark 14:1-16:8 Myers, Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, pages 181-212 Background: Women play a particularly significant role throughout Mark’s gospel and especially so in these last chapters. Most biblical scholars agree that the original manuscript ends with 16:8, or perhaps there were multiple versions of the ending…
Read MoreThree months together
This week marks my three month anniversary with PVCC. I started on Oct. 14th, although I did not lead worship until November. I thought that one way to mark our journey is with these words taken from a prayer for the church written by Reinhold Niebuhr, “O God, grant us grace fitly to be joined…
Read MorePublic Event: Learning about the School of the Americas, Jan 25th at PVCC
PVCC will host an evening with the Wichita Peace and Justice Center on Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. We learn about the Peace and Justice Center trip last November to Fort Benning, Georgia, to protest the School of the Americans (SOA). The information and links below will introduce you to SOA. It is…
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