“Jesus came preaching,” says St.  Mark.  Now, that may not seem like anything earth-shaking to you, but I suggest this morning that it is nothing less than astounding!  Of all the methods that God might have chosen to change the world-the frailty of human words is just about the most surprising!  I find it incredible that God should launch God’s movement to save the world in so frail a vessel as preaching.  St.  Paul found it surprising, too.  Our Epistle Lesson was from II Corinthians.  But in I Corinthians Paul wrote: “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.” Years ago George Arthur Buttrick wrote a book on preaching with the same title as this sermon.  In it he said: “Jesus …