What is Jesus Doing? (Mark 11:12-19)
This is more than a bad day, Jesus is stopping business as usual to offer the chance of something new. That was the threatening thing. It still is.
This is more than a bad day, Jesus is stopping business as usual to offer the chance of something new. That was the threatening thing. It still is.
The crowds can see the blessing that Jesus could bring. The authorities can only see problems. What can you see?
Jesus tells the disciples how he will change everything by dying on the cross & rising from the dead, but two mishear think only of their own future.
Once again Jesus defies the expectations of his culture (including his disciples); this time by welcoming children. In fact, he went much further than that…
Once again, the Pharisees came to try and trip Jesus up; this time about the issues of divorce. But Jesus refused to play their game.
We’re called to take care of one another; treat each other gently; act as though we belong to one another. Even when we’re very different from each other.
Jesus and the disciples were on a long journey, and the disciples were arguing about who is the greatest. We have a look at Jesus’ response to them…
Jesus, Peter, James & John come down from an incredible mountaintop experience to find the other disciples arguing about why they couldn’t exorcise a demon.
The transfiguration is the mind-blowing final scene of Mark’s three-part drama of who Jesus is. Jesus is transformed and a voice calls us to listen to him…
Jesus continues to develop the implications of what it means to be a disciple. There’s no way around this – we have to walk the same road as Jesus.
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