More of the Look of Love
This is the sermon I preached on Sunday, 10/14 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church. The text was Mark 10:17-31. In 1967, Dusty Springfield sang: The look of love Is in your eyes A look your smile can't disguise The look of love Is saying so much more than Just words could ever say And what my heart has heard Well it takes my breath away In the first scene of today’s gospel, we hear of Jesus’ look of love and the response he gets from a very religious, self-sufficient, well-to-do man. Right from the get-go, Mark tells us that this gospel passage is about discipleship because the Greek says Jesus is “on the way,” not “setting out on a journey.” In Mark’s gospel, that is code for walking the way of the cross because Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem to be crucified. Early Christians were referred to as those belonging to “the Way” (Acts 9:2). All we know at the outset of this gospel is that this man is humble, for he knelt before Jesus and addressed him as “G...