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Read Mark 10:1-12 It is lawful? Once again, we read the religious folks coming to Jesus with a question. Marriage was a hot topic back then, just like it is now. Their question wasn’t really about divorce. In the same way, many theological debates today aren’t really about...
Read Mark 9:30-50 “Who is the best?” You gotta love the disciples. Despite spending SO MUCH TIME with Jesus, they just keep missing the point. Perhaps they were feeling inadequate after their inability to cast out the demon in the young boy they had just encountered, or didn’t...
Read Mark 9:14-29 I believe, help my unbelief. This is one of the most honest confessions of faith in all of Scripture. This father loves his son and is weary from watching him suffer. Four times in this passage, we read about the affliction this boy has been suffering. Even the disciples were...
Read Mark 9:2-13 Don’t tell anyone. Jesus commanded Peter, James, and John not to tell anyone what they had seen on the mountain until after he rose from the dead. Why would He say that? I suspect the reason he told them to keep this secret was because everyone still had a really hard...
Read Mark 8:31-9:1 “And they began to rebuke him.” From the looks of it, the disciples were just as averse to suffering as we are. They couldn’t fathom a Messianic path that would include death. So often in our world, success looks like all the numbers heading up and to...
Read Mark 8:11-30 Don’t you remember? In the book of Mark, the disciples are consistently portrayed as clueless while those on the “outside”- Gentiles, those of lower social classes, or sinners- seem to understand who Jesus is. After all they’ve seen, fresh off a...
Read Mark 7:24-8:10 He had compassion on them. This is a common phrase we read about Jesus in the Gospels. Over and over, as he looks at people, he sees deep into their hearts, sees how much they need grace, food, healing, forgiveness, hope; and he has compassion on them. Often, he has...
Read Mark 7:1-23 Unclean. The religious leaders in Jesus’ day were concerned with purity laws. They tried to keep all the laws set down in Torah, and even added more laws to it to make extra sure they didn’t violate any commandment. To make sure they weren’t unclean. When...
Read Mark 6:30-56 They were terrified. In the midst of these miraculous stories of feeding thousands of people and healing the sick, we see the disciples afraid. It’s almost silly, isn’t it? That in between these miraculous occasions, the disciples are afraid. The original...
Read Mark 6:14-32 Discipleship will cost you your life. Following Jesus is a weighty decision. Mark wants his readers to be clear that the path of following Jesus isn’t an easy one. That’s part of why this story about John the Baptist is included. John died for speaking truth...
