Welcome to the Monkey House! Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” Mark 3:20-21 My high school yearbook quote reads, “In an insane society, […]

Three full weeks now in the books. Today begins our fourth week of daily bLOG reflections from the Gospel of Mark. I hope you are benefitting from these as much as I am. Remember, these are reflections and not comprehensive commentaries on the text being covered. And he went up on the mountain and called […]

Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because […]

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on […]

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he […]

Friends, today is the 500th bLOG published since April 2019. On behalf of Godzilla, The Flying Scotsman, and many others, “Thank you for joining me on this adventure!” The Hitchhiker No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the […]

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom […]