Permission to be Salty! For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” Mark 9:49-50 Remember that the ancients used salt for purification, preservation, and seasoning. With this in mind, let us […]

Weighty Stuff! “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter […]

Pride and Prejudice! John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. For the one […]

In My Name And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.” Mark 9:36-37 After Jesus told the disciples to be servants […]

We come to the final sequence in Galilee. These several teachings tightly packed together create the closest thing to Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount you will find in Mark’s Gospel. Last Place And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But […]

Generic for a Reason? They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he […]

Help Me in My Unbelief! And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. And […]