Mark also does his bit to rehabilitate the Pharisees. Mark explains, among other things, why he gave up improvising sermons, and why he was temporarily ashamed of it. Mark's 1996 Easter sermon. I am not ashamed to be a man. In which Mark recounts an occasion when the church ministered to him.
Salvation is our business.
The Kingdom of God still has not arrived. Walk the streets of any urban area in this nation for ten minutes and tell me that it has. It works differently than we were taught in Sunday School. A New Year's Eve romp through Mark Belletini's library. Each of us has the one essential gift to give.