Why did Jesus speak in Parables? The answer might surprise you. The video link is here: Mark 4… Parables and a Storm The audio links are to the right i.e. Spotify and iTunes. Here is the transcript used for this podcast: Mark 4 – Parables and a Storm Parables aren’t a cute literary vehicle to […]

For the first time in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus turns His attention to the religious leadership directly, and does not back down. Here is the video link: Mark 3:7-35 The audio links i.e Spotify and iTunes are to the right. Here is the transcript today’s podcast was based on: Mark 3:7-35 The Battle is Joined 7 Jesus […]

You would think a man getting healed in the synagogue on the Sabbath would be a good thing, right? The God Who heals shows up, a miracle takes place right in front of their eyes. Grounds for celebration and worship, right? Not everybody thought so. Here is the video link to today’s podcast: Mark 3:1-6 […]

In this Podcast we read about more interactions between Jesus and the teachers of the Law and Pharisees. All this made me think about the juxtaposition of church tradition with what God says in His word. Tradition isn’t bad in and of itself until it gets put on the same authoritative level as the Words […]

Who did Jesus claim to be? He never hid that from anyone. But rather than stand on a street corner in Jerusalem and campaign for His Divinity, He simply did what you would expect God to do – wherever He went, He would heal lepers, heal the lame, divine the thoughts of His enemies, and […]

Introduction To encourage his readers to persevere through suffering and persecution, Mark presents Jesus as the Servant-Messiah and Son of God who died as a ransom for sinners. Mark is said to have been a companion of Peter, and therefore this Gospel he penned would be his compilation of the preaching of that great Apostle. […]

Peter closes his letter with a reminder about the “Day of the Lord”. It will be sudden, dramatic, and cataclysmic. How should we prepare for it? Below is the video link: The Day of the Lord The audio links to iTunes and Spotify are to the right. Here is the Transcript from which this podcast […]

One of the things we will have to endure are the taunts of those who ridicule us because we say that Jesus will return and we say that there will then will be a final judgement.   The denial of this foundational truth is an earmark of the false teachers and false prophets Peter writes […]

This is a tough issue. There are false teachers out there, preying on the Church. How do we know who they are? How do we know if what we hear from the pulpit is truth or not? Here is the video link: False Teachers and False Prophets The audio links to Spotify and iTunes is […]

Peter is at the end of his life. He will soon be executed by Nero, and this makes this letter VERY important. These are the words of a man who knows he is going to die soon. THAT makes this letter very important. How do you condense your life’s lessons down to a single letter? […]