Courtney Allen Crump is Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. She begins this week’s sermon from Mark 10:17-31 by saying, “Jesus’s directive for the rich man to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor makes today’s gospel lesson one of the most controversial and perhaps most creatively interpreted passages in Christian history.” You can guess how “creative” some people have been in excusing themselves from any obligation to sell what they have. But what is Jesus really trying to say? What does he want us to learn from this story of a rich man who wasn’t able to follow him, who was instead “shocked” and went away grieving, possessed by his possessions? Push the “play” button and join Courtney Allen Crump on a quest for the answers.
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Amy Butler, is a former Senior Minister of the Riverside Church in New York City, Founder of Invested Faith, and author of Beautiful and Terrible Things.
Michael Curry is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA), and the author of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
Brian McLaren is a speaker, an activist, and bestselling author of Faith after Doubt, Do I Stay Christian? and his latest, Faith after Doom.
Will Willimon is a retired bishop in the United Methodist Church, a powerful preacher, and a prolific author. Click HERE to see his available books.