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August 25, 2009

Volume 126, Issue #17

Lectionary

Moral words, evil deeds (Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23)

Mark's story is about the irony of keeping our hands ritually washed while being up to our elbows in evil.

Jesus groans: Mark 7:24-37

Jesus does not serve the vague “God of everybody.” He serves the scandalously particular God of Israel.

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