DEBATING ONE'S DETRACTORS (18)
Scripture: Mark 12:1-44
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Debating One's Detractors (18)
Gospel of Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 12: 1 - 44
Gospel of Mark Commentary Series - Sermon 18
I - One's Tormented Tenants (1 - 12)
II - One's Tribute Test (13 - 17)
III - One's Tactful Teaching (18 - 27)
IV - One's Truthful Thinking (28 - 34)
V - One's Timely Thoughts (35 - 37)
VI - One's Tainted Targets (38 - 40)
VII - One's Tremendous Treasure (41 - 44)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Odd Debate
About Who Should Be Educated and Trained
Almost exactly a century ago, American listened to a debate between two great thinkers, two men who had unquestionable credentials, first-rate minds, and powerful pens.
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. In September 1895, in a speech in Atlanta, Booker Taliaferro Washington advocated training in practical skills for young people of African descent. His speech and his ideas resounded throughout the country. At his Tuskegee Institute, Washington started courses in farming, bricklaying, mattress making, and wagon building. He insisted that his people stay out of politics and not agitate for rights. His slogan was, "Cast down your bucket where you are" which meant that everyone should look at the resources they already had available, and learn to use these things. If you will farm, if you will labor, if you will work hard, you will "earn" that's his word, not mine, you will earn your rights and privileges.
Over against Washington was his younger contemporary, the proud, intellectual, aloof William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. In this very year, 1895, as Booker T. Washington was delivering his Atlanta speech, W. E. B. Du Bois was receiving his doctorate from Harvard University. Du Bois challenged Washington's acceptance of racial separation and demanded equal rights.
More than that, he attacked Washington for minimizing the value of higher education. Du Bois instead spoke of training the talented tenth. The leaders, ...
Gospel of Mark
Donald Cantrell
Mark 12: 1 - 44
Gospel of Mark Commentary Series - Sermon 18
I - One's Tormented Tenants (1 - 12)
II - One's Tribute Test (13 - 17)
III - One's Tactful Teaching (18 - 27)
IV - One's Truthful Thinking (28 - 34)
V - One's Timely Thoughts (35 - 37)
VI - One's Tainted Targets (38 - 40)
VII - One's Tremendous Treasure (41 - 44)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Odd Debate
About Who Should Be Educated and Trained
Almost exactly a century ago, American listened to a debate between two great thinkers, two men who had unquestionable credentials, first-rate minds, and powerful pens.
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. In September 1895, in a speech in Atlanta, Booker Taliaferro Washington advocated training in practical skills for young people of African descent. His speech and his ideas resounded throughout the country. At his Tuskegee Institute, Washington started courses in farming, bricklaying, mattress making, and wagon building. He insisted that his people stay out of politics and not agitate for rights. His slogan was, "Cast down your bucket where you are" which meant that everyone should look at the resources they already had available, and learn to use these things. If you will farm, if you will labor, if you will work hard, you will "earn" that's his word, not mine, you will earn your rights and privileges.
Over against Washington was his younger contemporary, the proud, intellectual, aloof William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. In this very year, 1895, as Booker T. Washington was delivering his Atlanta speech, W. E. B. Du Bois was receiving his doctorate from Harvard University. Du Bois challenged Washington's acceptance of racial separation and demanded equal rights.
More than that, he attacked Washington for minimizing the value of higher education. Du Bois instead spoke of training the talented tenth. The leaders, ...
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