Sunday
March 4
Justifying Grace
By Marsh Chapel
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Mark 8: 31-38
Preface
H Thurman: the ocean and the night
Journey from sensation to reflection
Seven days a week discipline, faith and technology
Justifying grace: in trouble, at connection, by humility, as abandon
Scripture and Struggle
Mark 70ad
Disciples ‘behind’
Moderate Critics (Weeden), Critical Moderates (Marcus)
Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?
Thou with a scornful wonder
Cruciform character of divine love
A little rain, Ecc. 9:11
Church always both a representation and distortion of divine
Starkness of cross
Sterness of cross
A friend in need
Faith finds us in trouble
Grace in trouble is justifying grace
Tradition and Connection
To this place, our part of the parade
Hello again, Hello
Faith and technology, faith and culture
Absorb and Utilize
10 BU presidents
Alexander Graham Bell
Connection! And with new media too
Crackling connection
Grace in a moment of connection is justifying grace
Reason and Humility
Others faith, and my own?
Old teacher who speaks to but not for and so not to
From independence to dependence (life, friendship, faith, love, hope, heaven)
Margaret Fuller’s 4 questions
God be merciful to me, a sinner
V Havel, 2 quotes
Intelligence unleavened by kindness is dangerous
Dangerous piercing, tattooed by compunction
I Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
M. Robinson, E Kohak
Grace in a sense of humility is justifying grace
Experience and Abandon
Oceanside, Pelican
Waves, Surf, Tide, Surfer, Swimmer, in and out, in and out
That undulating, grounding, supportive grace
Dad, Malibu, walking, nourished by the waves, in and out, in and out
Teaching beginners: square knot, English idioms, Greek alphabet, swimming
Prone Float: Justifying Grace
Altar Call: first time, or in a long time, or on the long journey
The beginning of faith is learning to float, trust, depend, believe
Coda
Summary: trouble, connection, humility, abandon
New Beginnings
Invitation to justifying grace, to Eucharist
Ye that do truly and earnestly repent
H Thurman: the ocean and the night
~The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill,
Dean of Marsh Chapel
