https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_fcQJSGNDU&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=19 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a …
Continue reading Tell Them How Much the Lord Has Done for You | Mark 5:1-20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xkv24CaWKU&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=18 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=600nictRC2o&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=17 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger …
Continue reading The Parable of the Mustard Seed | Mark 4:30-34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j0llI3SOuc&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=16 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But …
Continue reading The Parable of the Growing Seed | Mark 4:26-29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCJMNW-_yOw&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=15 And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he …
Continue reading The Parables of the Lamp & the Measure | Mark 4:21-25
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,but the LORD weighs the heart. Proverbs 21:2 ESV As this verse states, self-justification comes all too easy. For example, I immediately condemn the driver who cuts me off, but whenever I cut someone off, then it is justified as being either an accident or …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5OSnPtfpSQ&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=14 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. And …
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,but every fool will be quarreling. Proverbs 20:3 ESV Although all of Proverbs applies to all ages of humanity, this verse feels particularly relevant today. With advent of the Internet and especially social media, it sometimes seems as though life has become one massive …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkbe-v-GvBE&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=13 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching …
Continue reading He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear | Mark 4:1-12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfcZ4Sm3NgA&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=12 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.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and …
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