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  • "The Widow's Might" (Sermon on Mark 12:38-44)

    11/08/2009 11:33:59 AM PST · by Charles Henrickson · 6 replies · 656+ views
    Charles Henrickson's blog at the Wittenberg Trail ^ | November 8, 2009 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “The Widow’s Might” (Mark 12:38-44) Our text today is the story usually known as “The Widow’s Mite.” It’s the story of a poor widow who goes to the temple and puts into the offering box two “small copper coins,” as our translation has it. But the King James Version had as the equivalent for “small copper coins” the old English word “mites”--she put in two mites. Thus the familiar phrase, “The Widow’s Mite,” m-i-t-e. But today I want to talk to you also about “The Widow’s Might,” m-i-g-h-t. For this story tells us as much about the widow’s might, her...