Join us for our journey through the last part of Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In this last talk of the series Dan Sheed explores the endings of Mark and the core message at hand for the readers: continue following the Jesus Way within this world of right and lefts.
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Join us for our journey through the last part of Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. For Lent we are looking at four stories of Jesus’ preparation for death and what that means for us today. This week Strahan Coleman shares on the last supper – the final descent of Jesus in the lead up to Easter – and how it is a new prophetic sign we all need to see.
Join us for our journey through the last part of Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. For Lent we are looking at four stories of Jesus’ preparation for death and what that means for us today. This week Alisha Wiseman looks at Mark 14:1-9, where Jesus is anointed by Mary and a new question is raised about what true worship is about.
Join us for our journey through the last part of Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. For Lent we are looking at four stories of Jesus’ preparation for death and what that means for us today. This week we look at Mark 10:32-45, where Jesus tells of how his future suffering will change the way we see our place in the world.
Join us for our journey through the last part of Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. For Lent we are looking at four stories of Jesus’ preparation for death and what that means for us today. This week we look at Mark 8:31-9:1, where Jesus tells of his future suffering and invites us to follow him into the same path.
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-six, Dan shares on the most revealing question Jesus asks his disciples at the middle point of the gospel of Mark.
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-five, Strahan Coleman shares on three connected stories in Mark’s gospel that make a clear point: it’s possible to be blind to the real Jesus due to small things in us that have big consequences to how we see.
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-four, Alisha Wiseman shares on how vital it is to keep our attention on the condition of our hearts and how our hearts can change.
“You can’t change merely by changing your thinking, or through great acts of will, but rather by changing what you love the most. God needs to be the object of our hearts greatest love.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-three, Strahan shares a talk on the religious lawyers Jerusalem pulling up Jesus for not keeping the traditions that made him clean, and asks which cultural traditions Jesus would challenge today.
Due to Labour Weekend, we did things a little differently and Dan shared this special talk introducing us to the influence of Eugene Peterson, a faithful leader in the modern church and what he shows us about following the Jesus Way together.
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty-one, Dan shares a talk on Jesus feeding the thousands and a movement from being those in the crowd to those who compassionately give.
“A disciple is a transformative learner ... and this is what the disciple learns: how to be the place in the world where the act of God can come alive.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twenty, guest speaker Donald Goodhall shares deeply on a conversation between Jesus and a Greek woman, helping us think about what to do with scriptures that we don’t like.
“We must be careful to not bend the text to say what we want it to say – or what it isn’t trying to say.””
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part nineteen, Dan shares a talk on a glimpse into Herod Antipas’ birthday banquet, the vulgar and violent things that happened there and a lesson on power.
“Lord, make us an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part seventeen, Dan shares a talk on Jesus passing exousia to the disciples – a moment that changes how God's mission will be done on Earth forever.
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part seventeen, Dan shares a talk on the moment Jesus is rejected by his home-town, the danger of our "just" statements about God and an epic tale from church history that starts with a riot in Alexandria.
“I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part sixteen, Hayley Morrison shares on the third significant sign recorded in Mark; that Jesus is God by his healing power.
“She reached for his hem and got his face.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part fifteen, Strahan shares on the second significant sign recorded in Mark, that Jesus is God by his confrontation of death and darkness.
“The role of the church in this peripheral moment is to say ... let’s all go back to our friends and families, and reconcile and heal and share all the things God is doing with us.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part fourteen, Dan teaches on reading the signs in the gospel accounts and how this sign in particular shows us Jesus was the Lord of all creation.
“Christianity is Christ, and that means that at its very centre it necessarily includes belief in and affirmation of Christ’s full diety. He does not merely have the value of God for us; He is God for us, as Karl Barth never tired of saying.
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Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part thirteen, Dan teaches on understanding why Jesus used this communication device so much, what the parables are answering and then we look at the final parables of Mark 4 together.
“Parables are stories that answer big questions [about God and us] by engaging the mind and the heart, intersecting reality and the sacred.”
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part twelve, Dan unpacks the second parable of Mark on a lamp being hidden, dark things being illuminated and making sure we are really listening.
“Integrity is when who I am on-stage is the same as who I am back-stage. It is when there is no separation between what is going on inside of me and what I am expressing outside of me. There is no separation of my inner and outer life.”