Mark 13:3-37: Accompanying Scripture

Rocky: I'm making the Mount of Olives connection by using Zechariah 14:1-9, with the conspicuous absence of verse 2 (it's obvious enough).

Landon: The Lectionary pairs Daniel 12 with this scripture in Year B. Other options include two texts from 1 Samuel (1, 2)or Psalm 16.

I think I'm going with Ps 16.

Mark 13:3-37: Hymns

Landon: Doh! "We are Marching" is so good - nice call.

After consulting with my choir director, we ended up picking

• "A Mighty Fortress"
• "O for a 1000 Tongues to Sing"
• "Great is Thy Faithfulness"

with "How Great Thou Art" as the anthem.

Rocky: Yeah. We're singing "The Church's One Foundation" as a sermon response, and we're singing "When Morning Gilds The Skies" to open. Not that either of those have any explicit relationship to Mark 13, but our closing song--"We Are Marching (Siyahamba)"--is eschatalogical to the core.

Landon: And how, exactly, is one supposed to pick hymns based on "there shall be wars and rumors of wars" and "This is but the beginnings of the birth pangs"?

Seriously.