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"The Sabbath was made to benefit people, and not people to benefit the Sabbath. (Mark 2:27-28 NLT) Over the many years I have been a Pastor, I have never ceased to wonder about how skilled we are to take a principle of Scripture that was designed to facilitate freedom and turn it into a…read moreToday's "Moment With Mark" (35) -Wine & Wineskins
"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. The wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine needs new wineskins." (Mark 2:22 NLT) Perhaps the greatest challenge in the Church today is how the "old" can accommodate the "new".…read moreToday's "Moment With Mark" (34) - Good Enough?
When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor — sick people do. I have come to call sinners, not those who think they are already good enough." (Mark 2:17 NLT) We refer to the Gospel as "good news". But it is also "bad news" for…read moreToday's "Moment With Mark" (33) - Religious Pride
That night Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to be his dinner guests, along with his fellow tax collectors and many other notorious sinners. (There were many people of this kind among the crowds that followed Jesus.) (Mark 2:15-16) I can think of numerous situations over the years when I have…read moreToday's "Moment With Mark" (32) - Discrimination
Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that gathered around him. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax-collection booth. "Come, be my disciple," Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him" (Mark 2:13-14) I wonder…read more
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