Deeply distressed in their stubborn hearts
Mark 3:1-19 There are two strands of people in these early pages of Mark. There are the Pharisees and their like, those who uphold the Law, who castigate and judge
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Mark 2:18-28 For most biological systems stability is a much sought out quality. Biological systems are arguably the single most profound challenge to entropy. Stable systems provide predictable environments in
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Give me strength
Psalm 25:1-10 How can I trust in something I cannot see? I have been asked this. Can’t recall by whom, but it was, I do recall, a ‘whom’ who was
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Mark 1:9-15 So, he goes into the desert for forty days, returns and then starts wandering telling people how it’s all wrong and that we should repent for the time
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Mark 2:1-17 Mark is spare language. There’s nothing in it that is necessary, nothing which doesn’t add to the purpose of it. The Gospels are a whole literary genre of
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Mark 1:1-20 And so it begins. In at the deep end. No nativity for Mark. Tell it loud, and tell it now. There was this guy. Name of John. And
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