https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Lq-43wcLU&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=6 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” And he said to them, …
Continue reading Of Prayer, Preaching, Leprosy, & the Messianic Secret | Mark 1:35-45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7lzSNbEb9M&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=5 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried …
Continue reading A New Teaching with Authority | Mark 1:21-34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2UevONIuLE&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=4 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4rseIbWNU&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=3 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; …
Continue reading The Baptism & Temptation of Jesus | Mark 1:9-13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oISTIkCKuHk&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWdX8HxnewI&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mark 1:1 ESV Mark is an overlooked book. Consider the book’s companions. John and Matthew were both firsthand witnesses to Jesus. Matthew’s Gospel serves as a perfect bridge from the Old Testament to the New Testament, while showing Jesus to be the …
The Olivet Discourse (found in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21) is Jesus’ apocalyptic teaching to His disciples, and, as with all things pertaining to the end times, it typically draws out of us a strange mixture of curiosity, confusion, and perhaps some fear. Yet of all the questions that could be asked perhaps …
Continue reading Is This the End? (Or, What Is the Olivet Discourse Describing?)
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