Category: Mark
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The Ten are Really Two
Mark 12:28-34 • Rev. Randy Martin • And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.…
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Know Not Scripture, Know Not God
Mark 12:18-27 • Rev. Randy Martin • And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring…
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Christ or Caesar?
Mark 12:13-17 • Rev Randy Martin • And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances,…
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A Parable of Doom
Mark 12:1-12 • Rev Randy Martin • And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a…
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Truth Denied to Non-Truth Seekers
Mark 11:27-33 • Rev Randy Martin • And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”…
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Cursing the Fig Tree and Prayer with Faith
Mark 11:11-14, 20-25 • Rev Randy Martin • And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.And seeing in the distance a…
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The House of God
Mark 11:11-19 • Rev Randy Martin • And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Jesus Curses the Fig Tree On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And…
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Hosanna to the Son of David
Mark 11:1-11 • Rev Randy Martin • The Triumphal Entry Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt…
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What Faith Is, What Faith Does
Mark 10:46-52 • Rev Randy Martin • And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say,…
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The Upside Down
Mark 10:35-45 • Rev Randy Martin • And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” And they said to him,…