Mark Part XXV - A Tale of Two Shepherds (6:14-44)
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Date:
10/12/2008
Price:
FREE
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Throughout the Gospel of Mark, Mark has been confronting us with the identity of Jesus. He wants us to ask with the participants in the story, "Who is this man?" Today we find this question being asked explicitly and being given several different answers. But Mark gives his own answer - loud and clear and stunning. He does this by telling us the story of two shepherds, Herod Antipas and Jesus - one who is eating his sheep and taking advantage of them for his own benefit, the other who is feeding his sheeping and tending to their needs. This tale of two shepherds highlights for us important principles of civil government which help us to view our current political history rightly and avoid the folly of idolatry.
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Stuart Bryan attends St. David's Anglican Church in Post Falls, Idaho and is currently an STM student at Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, PA. For 17 years, he served as senior pastor of Trinity Church in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He and his wife, Paige, have been married since college and have been blessed with seven grown children (four biological and three adopted internationally) and many... read more
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