This week we move into Mark 14 with Mark's account of a woman anointing Jesus with expensive perfume. Her actions provoke some very different reactions we will explore.
This week we will continue in the very challenging Mark 13. A bit murky on what is about the destruction of the temple and what is about the end of…
Moving into Mark 13, a most interesting chapter with a number of challenges. Not far into it this week but sort of an introduction to the next several weeks.
We are continuing in Mark, finishing chapter 12 with the well-known story of "The Widow's Mite". In this Gospel, the close of Jesus' public ministry.
Now that the questions for Jesus have paused, he asks one of his own. He then answers it with a quote from a familiar Psalm and goes on to warn…
We return to Mark this week and find a conversation between Jesus and a scribe. The man asks what was really a fairly common but very important question. Jesus gives…
Stepping out of Mark for this week and looking at 1 Corinthians 15. The importance and absolute centrality of the resurrection for a true Christian life.
This Sunday is Palm Sunday but we are just moving ahead in Mark's Gospel because we looked at the Triumphal entry there just a few weeks ago. So the Sadducees…
Though often referenced, it seems to have started with Benjamin Franklin, "in this world the only things certain are death and taxes." The two sort of come together in this…
Continuing in Mark's Gospel we come to what some have called the parable that got Jesus killed. Not an exaggeration. While some parables were difficult to understand, some Jesus had…