The Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, came home after church one Sunday and wrote of his disgust at what happened there.

''In the magnificent cathedral the Honourable and Right Reverend Gehei111e-General Ober-Hof Pradikant, the elect favourite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: 'God hath elected the base things of the world, and the things that are despised' and nobody laughs."(1)

Today I am to preach on Mark 10:17-27. The story of Jesus and the Rich Man. Rick Lischer, Professor of Preaching at the Divinity School, was supposed to preach on this text. I thought that I asked him to preach on this text on this day. Two weeks ago Rick told me that he had not heard about it, had never received a letter fr…