Questions about divorce & remarriage are always complicated. The Pharisees used such questions to try to trap Jesus.  But as always Jesus slipped their knots and revealed what is truly at issue when a marriage seems broken beyond repair. Join us as we examine Mark 10:1-12 and consider what is really at issue when our deepest, most intimate relationships seem irreparably broken.

Following Jesus is a scenic route, a road less traveled.  A scenic route with the twists and hairpin turns of sorrow, disappointment, and loss. A route slowed down by frustrating intersections and quirky characters.  But a route that boasts vistas of grace seen only as we wind our way through green pastures, still waters, the deepest darkest valleys, and the dangerous terrain of enemies, within and without.  It is the path less travelled, but it is the path that makes all the difference.  What path are you on?  Join us as we examine Mark 9:38-50 and consider the landscape of discipleship we find on the scenic route of following Jesus.  

How great do you have to be to be The GOAT? Sportscasters and media pundits think they know, but Jesus settled the question long ago, once and for all. Join us as we examine Mark 9:30-37 and consider what true greatness in the Kingdom of God means.

The disciples struggled to accept a suffering Jesus. They needed a sneak-peek of his glory and a divine word of reassurance. In the Transfiguration, Jesus’ closest disciples are given a glimpse of his majesty to prepare them for his suffering and theirs Join us as we examine Mark 9:2-13 and consider the majesty and sufficiency of our Suffering Savior and the certainty of the redemption he accomplished and offers.

With a word, a touch, with spittle & mud, from remote, Jesus healed in many ways. But most unusual is the healing of a blind man in Mark 8 as Jesus gives us a gracious lesson in the importance of examining ourselves for spiritual blindness.  Join us as we examine Mark 8:22-26 and consider Jesus’ unusual healing of the blind man and what it teaches us about our concern for spiritual growth.

How sharp are you? Has life taken off the edge? Has your faith dulled? Faith is a gift, but without intentionality, discipline and Christian community faith may dull.  Join us as we examine Mark 8 and consider Jesus’ warning about the causes, consequences and cure for dull faith.  

Fingers in his ears, spitting and touching his tongue, looking to heaven and sighing, and commanding ears “Be opened!” Jesus just exorcised a demon from a distance without a word. So why all the drama with a deaf-mute man of Decapolis? Join us as we examine Mark 7:31-37 and consider Jesus clearly offered to broken, isolated men as the only sufficient Savior.   

Man’s best friend! Yet dog-proverbs, ‘dog-eat-dog, gone to the dogs, sick as a dog,’ always dwell on unsavory traits. To be called a ‘dog’ is never a compliment. So, Jesus’ words to a Gentile woman’s plea for her demon-possessed daughter shock us.  Join us as we examine Mark 7:24-30 and consider hallmarks of a dogged, tenacious, persevering saving faith.