How good is your hearing? Are you a careful listener? A selective listener? Are you tuning in to God’s Word?  Or tuning Him out? Whose words do you trust? What measuring cup are you using to scoop God’s Word into the mixture of your life? Join us as we examine Mark 4:21-34 and consider what it looks like to have good hearing. 

Is your spiritual life growing, bearing fruit & scattering seed for others? Do you know the Sower’s attentive care & the Seed’s life-giving power? Are you like receptive soil? Or has hardness, fear or distraction prevented you from growing fruitfully?  Join us as we examine Mark 4:1-20 and consider the gracious Sower, the life-giving Seed, and the receptive Soil that bring fruitful life.

Is all sin eligible for forgiveness? Jesus spoke of the unforgiveable sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit? But what does this mean? Have we committed this sin? How can we know? Can we recover from it? This weighs heavily on us in the dark of night.  Join us as we examine Mark 3:20-35 and consider what Jesus is saying about faith and unbelief in this passage and what it means to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. 

The Kingdom of God is no meritocracy based on skill, prominence, or net worth. Lists of the Twelve in the gospels highlight this vividly. The apostles were uneducated, common men. But because they had been with Jesus, they turned their world upside down. Join us we examine one of these lists in Mark 3:7-19 and consider purposes, plans, and people of God’s choosing.

Jesus got tired and hungry. He was tempted every way we are. And he got angry. Especially when men loved Sabbath rigor over healing a disabled man. Graceless religion is fallen man at his worst, despising God’s love and His Son. And it made Jesus angry.    Listen as we examine Mark 3:1-6 and consider what makes Jesus angry.

Nothing steals Sabbath rest like legalism. The men of Jesus’ day turned gracious rest into self-righteous works.  When they complained how the Lord of the Sabbath kept the day, he reminded them that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Join us as we examine Mark 2:23-28 and consider how we are the think rightly about the Lord’s Day and how we observe it.

Love does not “coexist.” It refuses to go along to get along. Love draws lines, makes demands, does not settle for status quo. As Jesus proclaims the gospel, he draws lines, makes demands, challenges the status quo. New wine explodes old wineskins! Join us as we examine Mark 2:18-22 and consider Jesus’ response to demands that the gospel coexist with somber, self-righteous religion.