In her descriptive winning sermon, Dr Masters, who has been preaching in her village church in Kent for ten years, reflects on Luke 8.40, in which a synagogue leader, Jairus, asks Jesus to heal his dying daughter. On the way to the house, Jesus heals a woman who had been \u201cbleeding for 12 years\u201d when she touches his cloak. He then raises Jairus\u2019s child from the dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this was a television episode of Casualty,\u201d Dr Masters begins, \u201cthe episode would have opened with a 999 call-handler: \u2018Nearest unit divert to Church Lane, paediatric emergency at the vicarage: 12-year-old girl unconscious, breathing irregular. Hello? Are you still there Mr Jairus? Stay on the line, please, there is an ambulance on the way to your daughter.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Jairus would wait nervously on the drive for the ambulance, she said, only to see it flagged further down the road by a \u201cpale and unkempt\u201d homeless woman. This woman, an outcast, has spent all her money on unsuccessful gynaecological treatment, Dr Masters says \u2014 a detail from St Mark\u2019s Gospel omitted from St Luke\u2019s Gospel. \u201cFor 12 years, she has lived on the edges of society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> (registration).<\/p>\n An amazing talk about love.<\/p>\n \u2018Incredible storyteller\u2019 wins Sermon of the Year https:\/\/t.co\/9VSRcVEw56<\/a> from @churchtimes<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Matt Stoney 💙💛 (@mattstoney35) July 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n