Tag: Mark
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Not as the scribes
The people noted that Jesus spoke as if he had authority, unlike how the scribes spoke. They spoke as if they had knowledge but they constantly leaned in the authority of others—”so and so said this.” Jesus didn’t appeal to the of others. He spoke and let the soundness of His doctrine carry is own…
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Two aborted deaths
It had only been about a week since Jesus has raised Lazarus from the dead. I believe Mary Magdalene was there to witness that. With that memory fairly recent, how different did it feel to see Jesus risen from the dead without someone to raise him? Did it feel at all the same or did…
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Close to Christ
I would have loved to notice the invitation earlier to study the actions of Mary Magdalene and put myself in her place. The first thing I noticed was the comment “there is a direct correlation to the time we spend listening to His words and learning from Him to how close we are to Him.”…
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Follow up on invitations
When you follow up on an invitation to act, you show learners that you care about them and how the gospel is blessing their lives. You also give them opportunities to share their experiences, which strengthens their commitment and allows them to support one another in living the gospel. There are many ways to follow…
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The prints of the nails
Is it universally true that whoever Jesus appeared to as Himself after His resurrection, He showed the prints of the nails and the wound of the spear? He didn’t when he appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, although he didn’t reveal his identity to them either. As far as I can tell,…
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Below all things
It was necessary for Christ to be mocked and mistreated in order for Him to descend below all things.
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Son of man
It appears that “Son of man” is the title Christ most often used for himself and that He used it more than anyone else.
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A testimony of the resurrection
A testimony of Christ is incomplete at best of it does not include a testimony of his resurrection from the dead. When the apostles sought to replace Judas they made a testimony of the resurrection of Christ one of the defining characteristics of who they would choose. A testimony today cannot be that He lived,…
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He shall rise the third day
I wonder if there is any specific project more repeated than the fact that Christ would be killed and ride again on the third day after His death. That says something about how central that act was to the plan of salvation and how uniquely it identified Christ.