Book of Mark – Page 5 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Limiting Ourselves and God: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:7-13)

Jesus had just experienced unbelief in his hometown. Those who were most familiar with him, or so they thought, could not accept that he was being used by God in amazing ways. The corollary of that

Strange Unbelief: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:1-6)

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/ By Randall Johnson

We seem to have a problem with accepting our heroes as normal people, with normal family lives and upbringings. Like the Greeks, we prefer to think of our heroes as those who are the offspring of gods

Dire Straits: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 5:21-43)

What is the most dire situation you have ever faced? I immediately think of the near death of my son-in-law, my oldest daughter’s husband. In Mark’s Gospel Jesus has been meeting people

Lord of All, Even Demons: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 5:1-20)

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/ By Randall Johnson

I can imagine a tagline, “Jesus is the answer to the demons in your life.” The problem with that sentiment is two-fold: (1) Jesus is not merely an answer for our problems, he is lord of all,

Asleep By Faith: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:35-41)

What are you afraid of? I’ve had many nightmares of someone breaking into my house and threatening my family and I was helpless to withstand them. We all have fears of losing relationships we

Shade Tree or Weed? Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:26-34)

Are you a shade tree or a weed? Jesus continues describing the kingdom in parables and by doing so exposes our wrong motives and encourages real life. Take a look at yourself in this mirror, he says. He

Dangerous, Healing Truth: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:21-25)

Is there any danger in hearing the truth? God judges us by how we respond to His light. Jesus has begun teaching in parables because his listeners are not really wanting to understand his message.

Are You Really Saved?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:1-20)

How do you know if someone is really a follower of Jesus? A real sea-change has been occurring in Jesus’ ministry. The popularity of it has not waned, in fact, perhaps, it has increased. But

Family Is Everything: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 3:31-35)

Family is everything. We hear that all the time. But what if your family doesn’t believe what you believe about the biggest issues of life? What if your family is actually against you? What

Is There Unpardonable Sin?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 3:22-30)

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/ By Randall Johnson

Will Jesus forgive any and every sin? Or can you go too far? Jesus has been performing feats of power, healing people from diseases that had plagued them with no hope for healing in sight, casting out

Daily Thoughts from Mark: The Twelve and Us (Mark 3:13-21)

And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them

Daily Thoughts from Mark: The Genius of the Common Man (Mark 3:7-12)

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/ By Randall Johnson

Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd

Daily Thoughts from Mark: Hardness of Heart (Mark 3:1-6)

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man

Daily Thoughts from Mark: Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:23-28)

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/ By Randall Johnson

One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not

Daily Thoughts from Mark: Same Wine, New Wineskins (Mark 2:18-22)

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

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