Well, going way out of my comfort range this week. Stepping out of Mark for one week to speak of some priorities for Christians at all times, but maybe especially…
We continue in Mark with yet another conflict with the Pharisees, yet more confusion from the disciples, and a strong warning from Jesus. We will need to figure the leaven…
This week we will look at an interesting healing story. The story that prompted George Bernard Shaw to say, "This was the time when Jesus was not a Christian!" I…
The next section of Mark's Gospel is connected to what we looked at last week but Jesus drills down on his distinctions. He moves from the Pharisees to the general…
This week's passage in Mark moves back to Jesus' conflict with the Pharisees. Issues about hand washing and caring for aging parents. What could be more relevant? But the first…
Finishing up Mark 6 today. Jesus sends the disciples ahead, they have a hard time, and then he walks across the water to them. They thought they saw a ghost…
As we noted last week Mark does one of his story tucked inside a story forms. Here he writes of the martyrdom of John the Baptist between the sending and…