Category: Mark 4
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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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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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Soils
Mark 4:10, 13 “And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables . . . And he said to them, ‘Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?’” As was often Jesus’ approach to the questions of his apostles, He answered them with…
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A Path to Joy
Mark 4:10,13 “And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables . . . And he said to them, ‘Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?’” In Mark’s account of Jesus’ parable of the sower, it is revealed that Jesus explained the…
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What does it mean to “receive” God’s Word?
John 17:8 “For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them. . .” Mark 4:16-17 “And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.” What…
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