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Keep Calm and Follow Jesus

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27     Psalm 130     2 Corinthians 8:7-15     Mark 5:21-43 During the second World War the British government began a campaign to encourage their citizen’s resolve in the war effort. There were a variety of posters with simple messages that all had a drawing of a Tudor era crown above them. The most memorable of them read, “ Keep Calm and Carry On ”. These were all discarded after the war and would’ve been forgotten if a trunkful hadn’t been found, quite by accident, some 40 years later.  At first the phrase was re-introduced as “Keep Calm and Shine On” – a phrase that can mean anything from “be brilliant” to “be deceitful,” depending on which website you trust. Now you can find it on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers with “Keep Calm” followed by anything from “and Carry Guns” to “Presby On.” I’m not too sure about either of those, but given the range of emotion being expressed over current events it seems to me tha...