Mount Calvary Sermons

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY YEAR B 2015 MARK 1:14-20   It is the most popular participation sport in the United States, and also in the United Kingdom. Actually, strictly speaking, it is the second, but in my rulebook the most popular participation sport, walking, is disqualified. How does taking a leisurely stroll to your car count as taking part in a sport? Come to think of it, I’ve never been too convinced that the second placed pastime should be called a sport either. When I was a kid I used to argue with my friend Ian about exactly this. It was Ian’s main hobby. He used to go every Saturday with his dad, sit on a riverbank and cast a nylon line into the water. And then he’d wait. For hours. Then he’d go home again. So I used to annoy him by saying, “Come on Ian, that’s not a sport.” To which he would proudly tell me that angling was indeed a sport, and the most popular one in Britain. But it never really caught my imagination, even though Ian would horri