Markings My Own

by Eby, Omar

• ISBN13: 9781931038188
• ISBN10: 193103818X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Dreamseeker Books

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lee Snyder	9	(2)
Author's Preface: Toward and Apology and a Dedication	11	(2)
Acknowledgments	13	(31)
1 The Wilderness and the River: John the Baptist Prepares the Way	17	(3)
2 The River and the Ditch: The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus	20	(3)
3 Fishing and Following: The Calling of the First Disciples	23	(3)
4 An Evil Spirit in a Stone Synagogue: Jesus Drives out an Unclean Spirit	26	(3)
5 Fish and Chips: Jesus Heals Many	29	(3)
6 Before Dawn: Jesus Prays in a Solitary Place	32	(3)
7 Touching the Unclean: A Man with Leprosy	35	(3)
8 Stupendous Stranger: Jesus Heals a Paralytic	38	(3)
9 Matt Levy: The Calling of Levi	41	(3)
10 Oil and Wine: Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting	44	(3)
11 Grain and Whine: Lord of the Sabbath	47	(3)
12 More than an Ox in a Ditch: Lord of the Sabbath	50	(3)
13 The Centuries Gyre: Crowds Follow Jesus	53	(3)
14 Called to be Sent: The Appointing of the Twelve Apostles	56	(3)
15 Lord of the Flies: Jesus and Beelzebub	59	(3)
16 Brothers and Friends: Jesus' Mother and Brothers	62	(3)
17 The Efficacy of Story: The Parable of the Sower	65	(3)
18 The Pith of Epigram: Four Sayings of Jesus	68	(3)
19 Seed-Time and Harvest: Two Parables About Seed	71	(3)
20 Asleep in the Stern: Jesus Calms the Storm	74	(3)
21 No Pigs in the Peaceable Kingdom? The Healing of a Demon-Possessed Man	77	(4)
22 Jesus and Two Women: One Dead, One Sick	81	(3)
23 On Going Home: A Prophet Without Honor	84	(3)
24 Dressed for Witness: Jesus Sends out the Twelve	87	(3)
25 God's Elect, God's Neglect? John the Baptist Beheaded	90	(3)
26 Bread and Fish: Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand	93	(3)
27 Bread and Waves: Jesus Walks on the Water	96	(3)
28 Pork and Pomegranates: Unclean and Clean	99	(3)
29 Children's Crumbs: The Faith of a Syrophoenician Woman	102	(3)
30 A Fine Fellow: The Healing of a Deaf and Mute Man	105	(3)
31 An Epiphanic Moment: Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand	108	(4)
32 More About Bread: The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod	112	(3)
33 Men Like Trees Walking: The Healing of a Blind Man at Bethsaida	115	(3)
34 Whose Christ?: Peter's Confession of Christ	118	(3)
35 Must, Twice: Jesus Predicts His Death	121	(3)
36 Shut Up!: The Transfiguration	124	(3)
37 Beliefand Unbelief The Healing of a Boy with an Evil Spirit	127	(3)
38 WWJD: Who is the Greatest? Little Children	130	(3)
39 A Cup of Water: Whoever Is Not Against Us Is for Us	133	(3)
40 Go to Hell: Causing to Sin	136	(3)
41 On Becoming One Flesh: Avoiding Divorce	139	(3)
42 All About Bucks: The Rich Young Man	142	(3)
43 Astonishment and Fear: Jesus Again Predicts His Death	145	(3)
44 Wounded Servant: The Request of James and John	148	(3)
45 I Want to See!: Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight	151	(3)
46 A Borrowed Ass: The Triumphal Entry	154	(3)
47 A Slipped Fig Leaf The Withered Fig Tree	157	(4)
48 House of Prayer: Jesus Clears the Temple	161	(3)
49 Cheeky: The Authority of Jesus Questioned	164	(3)
50 Sonship: The Parable of the Tenants	167	(4)
51 As Sure as Death: Paying Taxes to Caesar	171	(3)
52 Denying Death: Marriage at the Resurrection	174	(3)
53 Love: Four or More: The Greatest Commandment	177	(3)
54 Delight: Whose Son Is the Christ?	180	(3)
55 Two Coppers: The Widow's Offering	183	(3)
56 Doom Approaches: The End of the Age, the Hour Unknown	186	(4)
57 Perfume: Jesus Anointed at Bethany	190	(3)
58 Bread and Wine: The Lord's Supper	193	(3)
59 Friends and Friendship: Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial	196	(3)
60 Olive Press: Gethsemane	199	(3)
61 The Kiss: Jesus Arrested	202	(3)
62 Silence and Speech: Jesus Before the Sanhedrin	205	(4)
63 A Rooster Crows: Peter Disowns Jesus	209	(3)
64 A Noose: Judas Hangs Himself	212	(3)
65 Which Jesus?: Jesus Before Pilate	215	(3)
66 Niger: The Crucifixion	218	(3)
67 Why?: The Death of Jesus	221	(3)
68 Pieta: The Burial of Jesus	224	(3)
69 Lilies and Spices: The Resurrection	227	(3)
70 Denouement: The Commission and the Ascension	230	(3)
Sources	233	(3)
The Author	236