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In entering Mark’s Gospel we need to remember that we are entering into 1st Century Galilee. We need to see Jesus’ deeds and hear His words first of all within that context. This is especially true in the passage we turn to today in Mark 2:13-17. Here Jesus comes into purposeful controversy and dispute with the religious leaders to establish the point of His mission. But…

Mark 2:1-3:6 forms a unit showing the expanding opposition to Jesus from the religious leaders – and it all begins with the deepest human need: forgiveness. In 2:2 we read that Jesus was preaching “the word” to a crowd gathered in a house – -that is the good news of the gospel (1:14-15), that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, for the forgiveness of sin.

“If You are willing, You can make me clean” (Mark 1:40) In our passage from Mark this morning we see Jesus continuing to be involved in people’s lives and see yet again His compassion for those in great need. But in this case it is with a man whose condition we have little connection with – leprosy (though sadly it is apparently on the rise in some aboriginal…

A special mother’s day creed for your consideration.

J A Alexander writes concerning the practice of Jesus in Mark 1:35 that it is ‘the most compelling proof of the necessity of prayer to our spiritual life.’ Did we, do we need such proof? Isn’t very reality of our spiritual life enough to encourage us to seek the face of the Lord in prayer, to know how much we need to spend time communing with our God?

Been to the Doctors lately? What was going through your mind – apart from the having to wait (perhaps at what seems far too long to get in, that is), or what it is going to cost you?

Literally he says ‘we are super conquerors!’ Not just victors but super victors! “More than conquerors” – that is what we are now and how we will regard ourselves through all eternity. When the early church father Chrysostom was brought before the Roman Emperor, the Emperor threatened him with banishment of he remained a Christian.

If Job, who lived at the dawn of recorded history, centuries before the time of the Lord Jesus Christ – if Job knew these things, how much more should we know them, we who are aware of Christ’s resurrection and have witnessed His power in our lives. Job lived in a dark and misty time, before the…

These words summarize the response to Himself and His ministry which Jesus sought. We see here that it is a command, not an option. The gospel doesn’t come out to us with a great idea but with a clear demand. There is only one response that is suitable. No other response is acceptable. We see here that it is universal, not selective – all – even the most righteous…

Indeed in light of the infinite glory and majesty of His Being is it possible to know God? Is He not incomprehensible, how can we know the unknowable? The answer is that the infinite God declares that finite man can know Him since He has made Himself known – and that not with resulting frustration,…