Category: Mark
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Fear and its Types
Mark 4:35-41 “That day, at evening, Jesus said to his followers, ‘Come with me across the lake.’ So they left the crowd behind and went with Jesus in the boat he was already in. There were also other boats that went with them. A very bad wind came up on the lake. The waves were coming over…
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Powerful Words
Mark 4:39 “Peace! Be still!” Jesus’ words have awesome power for they come from the mouth of an awesome God. We see evidence of this in the verse above from the account of Jesus in a boat with his disciples on the Sea of Galilee during a violent storm. The disciples feared for their lives…
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Precious Words
Luke 4:22 “And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth.” Mark 1:22 “And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.” I don’t know about you, but I get weary of some of the things…
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Alone Time
Mark 4:10-11 “And when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables. And He said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God . . .’” 2020 was a time when words became part of our vocabulary that we would not have even considered prior to that…
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Faith: It’s Personal
Mark 11:22 “And Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God.’” Many years ago, one of my office coworkers was talking about a subject (I don’t recall what the subject was) and he made this statement: “You have to have faith.” Well, because I knew that this person was not a Christian, I asked him this question: “Faith…
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All Things
Mark 9:23 “All things are possible for one who believes.” God has so much He desires to do for us, to give us, to show us, and to pour out into our lives. They are vast things, immeasurable things, awesome things, but there is a key to receiving them. That key is belief. In the…
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Preaching (to Ourself)
Mark 16:15 “And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.” In thinking about the above verse the other day, a thought came to me that I’d not considered before. The primary intent of this command from Jesus, a command that has come to be known…
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The Inquisition
Mark 11:27-33 “And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, ‘By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?’ Jesus said to them, ‘I…
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What Could Have Been
Mark 11:20-24 “As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.’ And Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be…
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The Unfruitful
Mark 11:12-19 “On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he…
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