Mount Calvary Sermons

25TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2015 MARK 13:1-8Before I begin I want to tell you about the aftermath of last week’s sermon. If you were not here you need to know that the Gospel story was the widow who dropped two small copper coins into the Temple treasury, which was all she had, and Jesus declared that she had given more than people who had dropped in larger sums. So, it’s Tuesday morning and Liz is counting the money from the three services last weekend. And she shouts out to me, “Oy, I’ve got a bone to pick with you.” (Because that’s how she talks to me.) So I call back, “What?” (because that’s how I talk to her.) And she marches into my study waving a Ziploc bag full of pennies. 84 of them. Seriously. “Don’t ever preach that sermon again”, she said. Now last weekend there were 245 people in church, which means one third of them had been planning to drop their usual $50 into the plate, but then heard the Bible passage, kept the 50 bucks