Reading: Mark 10:32-52 Context: How does Jesus’ detailed third passion prediction demonstrate His conscious choice to suffer? I imagine. He is with His disciples and He’s outlining what will happen to Him. He’s deliberate. He’s not in a rush. This is what will happen. It’s not a matter of identifying it in terms of what […]
Read More WIWO: Mark – Episode 18: The Way of the CrossOne of the wonderful things about the grace of God extended to believers is that they are a part of His heritage. One in which He wins every battle, He provides for every need, His presence remains when others leave, His love is deep, and He cares for all His own. That’s what believers enjoy […]
Read More Dryden Shorts – It’s the Heritage“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or […]
Read More KMCD 21: The Kingsman Works it OutReading: Mark 10:1-31 Context: How do Jesus’ teachings on divorce reflect God’s original design for marriage relationships? Divorce is alien to God. His original design was that those who married would be married for life. Divorce was a response to rebellious hearts that didn’t want to take on the original design. Going back to God’s […]
Read More WIWO: Mark – Episode 17: Marriage, Children, and WealthThey witnessed Elisha walking with Elijah. They saw him at the river. They waited as both men crossed. Only Elisha returned, though, and he was not the same. They witnessed the disciples walking with Jesus. They saw them go up. They waited. But Jesus did not come back with them. And after a while, when […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Not The SameThere’s a word that gets used so often in Christian circles that it has almost lost its edge. Fellowship. We say it after the service. We name rooms after it. We schedule it into the diary. But I’ve been in enough of those rooms and enough of those schedules to know that what we call […]
Read More KMCD 20: Depth of Fellowship and The KingsmanReading: Mark 9:33-50 Context: What prompts Jesus’ teaching about greatness and service in God’s kingdom? The lads are quarrelling before they reach the crib. He asks them why they’re arguing. They keep shtum, as if you can do that with a man who knows. The nature of their quarrel is about who is the greatest. […]
Read More WIWO: Mark – Episode 16: Humility and ServiceIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He made man in His image with the capacity to have dominion and rule in righteousness. Although man rebelled, there are clearly expressions of man’s capacity to express creativity and imagination that bring out the best in what God created. Wherever it is expressed – […]
Read More Dryden Shorts – CreativityThe Kingsman lives in the present, but he does not live from the present. That distinction matters more than it might first appear. Paul lands at the end of 1 Corinthians 15 not with a conclusion but with something closer to a war cry. He has spent the entire chapter building the case for resurrection […]
Read More KMCD 19: Resurrection and The KingsmanReading: Mark 9:1-32 Context: How does the transfiguration confirm Jesus’ identity for the three disciples who witness it? Here’s the confirmation – it’s one thing to be told that He’s the son of God, it’s another thing to witness His transfigured form revealing the glory of the only begotten son of God. That kind of […]
Read More WIWO: Mark – Episode 15: Glory and Discipleship
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