Mark 7:24-37 | Imagine what it would be like to go from being deaf to being able to hear. Or, being blind to being able to see. In that moment, a whole new world (quite literally) would open up before you. In the same way, this weekend, we meet a deaf man whose entire world opens up before him as Jesus’ heals him. For ourselves, we may not struggle with such an impairment. But for each of us, Jesus continues to come to us: opening our ears, our perspectives, our wills, indeed our very lives, so that we might receive God’s grace and so that we might extend that grace to others. So, as we continue through Mark, join us this weekend as we receive Christ’s healing and grace anew, and as we open ourselves to the truth of Christ and Christ’s Kingdom.
Sunday, September 8, 2024, Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Bulletin
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