IN THE SHADOW OF CALVARY (22)
Scripture: Mark 15:1-21
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Title: In The Shadow of Calvary (22)
Series: Gospel of Mark
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Mark 15:1-21
Gospel of Mark Commentary Series
I - Day of Suspenseful Transition (1 - 5)
II - Day of Thoughtful Tradition (6 - 15)
III - Day of Woeful Traumatization (16 - 20)
IV - Day of Helpful Transition (21)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Shadow of Death
An experience Peter Marshall, the great Scottish preacher, related during his ministry:
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Peter Marshall preached to the regiment of midshipmen in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. A strange feeling which he couldn't shake off led him to change his announced topic to an entirely different homiletical theme based on James 4:14:
"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away."
In the chapel before him was the December graduating class, young men who in a few days would receive their commissions and go on active duty. In that sermon titled Go Down Death, Peter Marshall used this illustration.
In a home of which I know, a little boy, the only son, was ill with an incurable disease. Month after month the mother had tenderly nursed him, read to him, and played with him, hoping to keep him from realizing the dreadful finality of the doctor's diagnosis.
But as the weeks went on and he grew no better, the little fellow gradually began to understand that he would never be like the other boys he saw playing outside his window and, small as he was, he began to understand the meaning of the term death, and he, too, knew that he was to die.
One day his mother had been reading to him the stirring tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table: of Lancelot and Guinevere and Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, and of that last glorious battle in which so many fair knights met their death.
As she closed the book, the boy sat silent for an instant as though d ...
Series: Gospel of Mark
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Mark 15:1-21
Gospel of Mark Commentary Series
I - Day of Suspenseful Transition (1 - 5)
II - Day of Thoughtful Tradition (6 - 15)
III - Day of Woeful Traumatization (16 - 20)
IV - Day of Helpful Transition (21)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Shadow of Death
An experience Peter Marshall, the great Scottish preacher, related during his ministry:
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Peter Marshall preached to the regiment of midshipmen in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. A strange feeling which he couldn't shake off led him to change his announced topic to an entirely different homiletical theme based on James 4:14:
"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away."
In the chapel before him was the December graduating class, young men who in a few days would receive their commissions and go on active duty. In that sermon titled Go Down Death, Peter Marshall used this illustration.
In a home of which I know, a little boy, the only son, was ill with an incurable disease. Month after month the mother had tenderly nursed him, read to him, and played with him, hoping to keep him from realizing the dreadful finality of the doctor's diagnosis.
But as the weeks went on and he grew no better, the little fellow gradually began to understand that he would never be like the other boys he saw playing outside his window and, small as he was, he began to understand the meaning of the term death, and he, too, knew that he was to die.
One day his mother had been reading to him the stirring tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table: of Lancelot and Guinevere and Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, and of that last glorious battle in which so many fair knights met their death.
As she closed the book, the boy sat silent for an instant as though d ...
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