Mark
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Eleven Points on How to Be Hidden through Impending Judgment 7 months ago · View
Perhaps the Book of the Prophet Zephaniah is skipped over by some who would rather not hear its proclamations of judgment: judgment on Judah (Zeph 1); judgment on the Gentile nations (Zeph 2:4-15); judgement on Jerusalem (Zeph 3:1-7); judgment on the nations: “All the earth shall be devoured with the fire of My jealousy.” (Zeph [...]
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mark wrote a new blog post: Glory Seekers Mark 10:32-40 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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natalie wrote a new blog post: Mark 1:16-20 1 year, 4 months ago · View
Just some thoughts on Mark 1:16-20, where Jesus calls Simon Peter, Andrew, James, and John to follow Him: These men respond to Jesus IMMEDIATELY. They decided to follow Jesus without explanation. At least in Scripture, we don’t see Jesus explain where they’re going, what they’ll be doing, or even who Jesus was! All they know is that [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable posted an update: 1 year, 4 months ago · View
It doesn’t take a leap of faith to come to God! We just have to take a little hop, a baby step; to say a simple prayer; to cry to God; to have a willingness to believe the TRUTH. When we are willing to know the TRUTH, God bends over backwards (so to speak) to help us know Him. It’s a little faith. (Mark 4:30-32) It’s not a big leap – but could be a great change! If anyone did the leaping, it was Jesus! A leap is to ”jump or spring a long way”. Jesus Christ came a long way – from heaven on high to earth below – to be the Way for us. But when we but simply turn to God, He does the leaping – leaping for joy, I might add! (Zeph 3:17) He bridges the gap between us. He carries us a long way, out of the mud of our sin into the spiritual blue skies. It is JESUS CHRIST who accomplishes it. If you are willing to know the TRUTH, then simply pray, ”God, please show me the TRUTH.” (John 8:32)
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: Christ will come again! 1 year, 6 months ago · View
We confess this frequently at my church: “Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.” These are foundational Christian beliefs. Do you believe Christ is coming again? Many,many Scriptures reference the Lord’s Coming. Some of these just reference the “Day” or the “Revelation” but are included to show how foundational the Second Coming [...]
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mark commented on the blog post Who is in My Family? 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Mark 3:29 29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” I think the best explanation I have seen regarding this difficult passage is by Wayne Grudem in his book Systematic Theology, pg 508: The context indicates that Jesus is speaking about a sin that [...]
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mark wrote a new blog post: Who is in My Family? 1 year, 7 months ago · View
What is doctrine of adoption and what are its ramifications? Find the answers to these questions and more by listening to this October 24th sermon on Mark 3:7-35 here.
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mark wrote a new blog post: The Heart of a Pharisee 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Do I have a heart like the Pharisees? What does the term “regeneration” mean? Does Jesus care about the little things in my life? Find the answers to these questions and more by listening to this October 10th sermon on Mark 3:1-6 here.
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: A Nutty Lesson 1 year, 7 months ago · View
It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last, but this morning, I messed up. However, since God works all things for my good (Romans 8:28), I learned a few lessons from my mistake. It was a beautiful, cool, September morning. I decided to be outdoors and get a little pruning in on [...]
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mark wrote a new blog post: Should I Be Around “Sick” People? 1 year, 8 months ago · View
God has placed many spiritually sick people in our lives who desperately need healing. What can motivate us to be around these types of people and reach out to them even more? Find out and listen to this Sept. 19th sermon on Mark 2:13-28 here.
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Mark 3:10 . . . that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch Him. [the phrase, 'pushing froward to touch Him", can be translated: to fall upon, come eagerly to, to embrace (like the father ran to embrace his prodigal son in Luke 15:20), threw himself on, threw his arms around him, (also conveys a context of being gripped with fear or in awe of)]
Mark 3:21 . . . they (Jesus’ family) went to take charge of Him for they said, ”He is out of His mind.”. [The phrase 'went to take charge of Him" can mean: to arrest, take into custody, seize, hold back, not forgive]
Both those with disease and Jesus’ family wanted to take hold of Him but with very different motivations. One group wanted to receive His help and healing and the other group wanted to control Him because He wasn’t doing want they wanted Him to do and they didn’t understand that what He was doing was good for them.
I want to embrace what God is doing in my life and with the people I’m close to even when it’s not at all what I want and I don’t understand it. I trust that He is acting out of love for me and I am in awe of Him. -
mark wrote a new blog post: Jesus’ Long Day 1 year, 8 months ago · View
After being up late driving out demons and healing people, Jesus gets up early and goes where? A solitary place to pray! What significance can this have to our lives? Find out and listen to this Sept. 5th sermon on Mark 1:29-39 here.
View 5 powerpoint slides here.
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mark wrote a new blog post: Who is Jesus? 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Mark forces us to answer the question, “Who is Jesus?” More importantly, who is Jesus to me? Mark 1:1-28 shows us that only the demons really answer this question accurately and completely!
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Lee wrote a new blog post: this is a new test post 1 year, 10 months ago · View
testing…
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Carolyn Anne Venable commented on the blog post The Abomination of Desolation 2 years, 3 months ago · View
I agree that Antiochus is a type – a type of anti-christ as was Titus. Jesus prophesied of Titus, but further there is an ultimate fulfillment in another Anti-christ that will precede Jesus’ Second Coming because in Matthew 24:15-30 and Mark 13:14-26 these monumental events are linked together. Indeed the Book of Revelation is ultimately [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: A LABOR OF LOVE 2 years, 4 months ago · View
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. (Lamentations 2:19) LET THE CHILDREN There is a sinister, ugly spirit, a [...]
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Carolyn Anne Venable wrote a new blog post: 30/60/100? 2 years, 5 months ago · View
We must be willing to give up the good to get the better, and be willing to give up the better to get the best. (30/60/100-fold harvest)
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Richard Venable wrote a new blog post: How willingly do people go to hell? 2 years, 6 months ago · View
I just read a good article by John Piper: How Willingly Do People Go to Hell . In it, he challenges C.S. Lewis’ statements about hell: that “all that are in hell choose it” and “all God does in the end with people is give them what they most want.” John Piper makes very good arguments to [...]
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One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. –Proverbs 11:24
So, regularly tithing is a relatively new discipline for me. Since I more regularly make money, I more regularly tithe. God has been teaching me to give a percentage of what I make back to Him [...]
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David V wrote a new blog post: The Abomination of Desolation 2 years, 8 months ago · View
After my quick foray into Daniel chapter nine, I’d like to return to Matthew 24 (and parallel passages). Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14 both record Jesus quoting the “abomination of desolation” spoken of by the prophet Daniel. Both authors also make an aside saying “whoever reads, let him understand.” Since Matthew and Mark are not [...]
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