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Brad Sullivan Proper 29, Year B November 22, 2015 Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX John 18:33-37 Risk & Compassion: Demands of Jesus’ Kingdom Last week, Lynette, our senior warden, shared with me a video of a testimony given by Travis Tinnin. Travis just passed away a couple of days ago. Some of y’all know him. He grew up here in Bay City and had a wife and two-year-old twin boys. Travis had had complications at birth and wasn’t expected to live, but he did. Then he wasn’t expected to walk, but he did. He lived with the cancer for longer than expected, and had children he wasn’t supposed to be able to have, and in his testimony, given about 4 years ago, he talked about the trust he has in Jesus. He said: Trust is agreeing to deal with someone else’s choices, for better or worse. It’s not that I trust you to catch me. It’s that I’m willing to fall if you don’t. In the same