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Mark 6:30-44 From John the Baptist’s death, Mark leads us immediately into the miraculous feeding of the 5,000. This particular miracle is recorded in all four of the gospels. The thing they all have in common is that Jesus and the disciples were attempting to separate themselves from the crowds. Mark and Luke both link...

 Mark 6:14-29 So far in Mark 6 we have seen Jesus rejected in his hometown of Nazareth, continue the “purpose for which He came” preaching from village to village (Mark 1:38) and then send out the twelve apostles for the first time to go out in His name, preach that people should repent, heal disease...

 A friend passed away this morning. We all deal with the news of death differently and yet, we all deal with it similarly. We do different things, have different responses but the reality is we are all searching for a way to deal with something we were not created to experience or equipped to fully...

Last week our discussion focused on Jesus being rejected in Nazareth. Those who had known Him the longest could not get past who they thought He was to see His true identity. As it would have been difficult for any of us, it was hard for them to see that Mary’s Son could be the...

Our last time together we closed out Mark 5 with the raising of Jairus’ daughter form the dead, that ended a section of Scripture in which Mark showed us Jesus’ authority over nature, over evil, over sickness and over death with one miracle after another. In each of the instances those watching and those being...

Tonight we will attempt to finish Mark 5 by returning to the story of the woman with the issue of blood and then moving into the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter. I don’t want to go back too far but even in finishing the passage I think it is important that we see just how amazing...

Like a lot of people I know, I struggle with things I don’t understand. I often find myself looking for answers, assuming responses, and imagining outcomes. I have come to realize that there is a big difference between a thirst for knowledge and a demand for understanding. Knowledge is most often new, it is an...

Tonight we get back into Mark 5. We left off with Jesus’ deliverance of the man possessed by a legion of demons in the land of the Gadarenes. This was the second miracle of this passage that began in Mark 4:35. First, Jesus calmed a life-threatening storm revealing His power over nature, then He delivered...

As we started discussing in our last time together, Mark 5 is an amazing account of three miracles of Jesus. Michael Card wrote “Each individual described in Mark 5 is being held captive: one by demons, one by disease and one by death.” It will take us a few classes to work our way through...

In our last time together we saw Jesus as not just the Creator of all things but also the “Master of Nature”. In the midst of a storm that was so fierce that it left even seasoned fisherman fearful for our lives, Jesus, awakened from sleep by His fearful disciples simply stood up, rebuked the...