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Marching into Mark Chapter Twelve

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 82, March 23 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 12 (parallel stories in Matthew 21 and 22)
- Mk 12:1-12 The Vineyard Owner and Tenants
- Mk 12⁷“But those tenant farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’
- Mk 12⁹“Therefore, what will the owner^[c] of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.
- The Stone the Builders Rejected
  - The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone.^[
  - This came from the Lord
    and is wonderful in our eyes?”
- Mk 12¹²Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.
- Mk 12:13-17 God and Taxes
- Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? ¹⁵Should we pay, or should we not pay?”
- Mk 12¹⁶So they brought one. “Whose image and inscription is this?” He asked them.
- Caesar’s
- Mk 12¹⁷Then Jesus told them, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him.
- Mk 12:18- 27 Resurrection? Yes or No?
- Mk 12¹⁸Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and questioned Him:
- Man had a wife and died, brother married her, no offspring
- Times seven brothers
- Woman died
- Whose wife is she in the resurrection?
- Mk 12²⁵For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven. (-Jesus said)
- Mk 12²⁶Now concerning the dead being raised…
- Mk 12²⁷He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived.”
- Mk 12: 28-34 Greatest Commandments
- Mk 12²⁸One of the scribes approached. … he asked Him, “Which command is the most important of all?”
- Mk 12³⁰Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
- Mk 12“The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself.^[r] There is no other command greater than these.”
- Scribe replied
- Mk 12³³And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding,^[s] and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- Jesus said
- Mk 12:34 “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”
- Mk 12: 35-37 David’s son the Messiah?
- Mk 12:38- 40 Beware of the Scribes
- Mk 12⁴⁰They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”
- Mk 12:41-44 The Widows Gift
- Mk 12⁴³Summoning His disciples, He said to them, “I assure you: This poor widow has put in more than all those giving to the temple treasury. ⁴⁴For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she possessed—all she had to live on.”

More discussion about these stories in Mindfully Meditating in Matthew 21 and MMM22

A good place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 12:34
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

Mk 12:34 “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”
YOU are not far from the kingdom of God.
You ARE not far from the kingdom of God.
You are NOT far from the kingdom of God.
You are not FAR from the kingdom of God.

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

The Greatest Commandment – Integrity Worship

Greatest Commandment – Seeds Family Worship

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

No coloring page for the Greatest Commandment, I’m sorry.

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

What is up with the Sadducees and the resurrection? Who are they?
1. Crosswalk has an article, 8 things to know about the Sadducees – it’s very interesting.
How do you feel about God and paying taxes?
1. GotQuestions has some input on what Jesus meant when he said this.

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My hope in the midst of despair and my joy in the face of depression is because of my relationship with Jesus Christ. If you do not have one, or are not sure you will join him in heaven, please check out these links:

Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

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The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter 11

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 82, March 23 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Eleven

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 11
- Mk 11:1-11 Triumphal Entry
- Mk 11²and told them, “Go into the village ahead of you. As soon as you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.
- and they did
- Mk 11 ⁷Then they brought the donkey to Jesus and threw their robes on it, and He sat on it.
- Mk 11⁹Then those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting:
  - Hosanna!
    He who comes in the name
    of the Lord is the blessed One!^[b]
  - The coming kingdom
    of our father David is blessed!
    Hosanna in the highest heaven!
- Mk 11¹¹And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.
- Mk 11:12-14 Cursing the Fig Tree
- Mk 11¹⁴He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples heard it.
- Mk 11:15-19 Tables Turned
- Mk 11¹⁷Then He began to teach them: “Is it not written, My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations?^[c] But you have made it a den of thieves!”
- Mk 11:20-26 Two Lessons from the Fig Tree
- Have Faith
- Mk 11²⁰Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.
- Mk 11²²Jesus replied to them, “Have faith in God.
- Mk 11²⁴Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received^[e] them, and you will have them.
- Forgive and be forgiven
- Mk 11²⁵And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven will also forgive you your wrongdoing. [²⁶But if you don’t forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your wrongdoing.]”^[f]^[g]
- Mk 11: 27- 33 By Whose Authority
- Priests, Scribes and Elders ask – by what Authority
- Jesus asks “by what authority did John baptize?”
- Priests, Scribes and Elders fear the people – “we don’t know.”
- Mk 11:33 And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

More discussion about these stories in Mindfully Meditating in Matthew 21

A good place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 11:24
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

Mk 11²⁴Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received^[e] them, and you will have them.
THEREFORE I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for – believe that you have received them and you will have them.
Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for – believe that you have received them, and you will have them.
Therefore I TELL you, all the things you pray and ask for – believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

Jesus cleansing the Temple Coloring Page – SuperColoring

Jesus Clears the Temple – ColoringHome

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

Why did people put branches and stuff on the path before Jesus as he entered Jerusalem?
1. GotQuestions talks about the significance of the triumphal entry.
What is the point about cursing the fig tree?
1. The Gospel Coalition has a great explanation about what we can learn from the fig tree.

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter 10

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 80, March 21 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Ten

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 10(cross referencing – Matthew 19)
- Mk10:1He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on Him again and, as He usually did, He began teaching them once more.
- Mk 10:2-12 Jesus’s opinion on Divorce
- Mk 10:²Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
- ⁶But from the beginning of creation God^[a] made them male and female.
  - For this reason a man will leave
    his father and mother
    [and be joined to his wife],
  - and the two will become one flesh.
  - So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
- ⁹Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
- ¹¹And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
- ¹²Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
- Mk 10:13 -16 Welcome the Children
- Mk 10¹⁴When Jesus saw it, He was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me. Don’t stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
- Mk 10¹⁵I assure you: Whoever does not welcome[e] the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
- ¹⁶After taking them in His arms, He laid His hands on them and blessed them.
- Mk 10:17-22 The Rich Young Ruler
- Mk 10¹⁷As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- Jesus – Why do you call me Good? And Keep the commandments
- ²⁰He said to Him, “Teacher, I have kept all these from my youth.”
- Jesus – You must go and sell all and give to the poor.
- Mk 10²²But he was stunned^[h] at this demand, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.
- Mk10:23-31 The continuation of Riches
- Mk 10²³Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”
- Stunned the disciples –
- Mk 10:24…Again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is^[i] to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
- The Who Can be Saved????
- Mk 10²⁷Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, because all things are possible with God.”
- But we’ve left all to follow you!
- Mk10²⁹“I assure you,” Jesus said, “there is no one who has left house, brothers or sisters, mother or father,^[j] children, or fields because of Me and the gospel, ³⁰who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come. ³¹But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
- Mk 10:32-34 Jesus Tells of His Death a Third time
- Mk 10:35-45 James and John ask to sit at Christ’s Right Hand
- Mk 10⁴³But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to all. ⁴⁵For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”^[l]
- Mk 10:46-52 Blind Bartimaeus
- Mk 10:⁵¹Then Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”
- “Rabbouni,”^[m] the blind man told Him, “I want to see!”
- ⁵²“Go your way,” Jesus told him. “Your faith has healed you.” Immediately he could see and began to follow Him on the road.

More discussion about these stories in Mindfully Meditating in Matthew 19

A good place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 10:31
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

³¹But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
BUT many who are first will be last, and the last first.
But MANY who are first will be last, and the last first.
But many WHO are first will be last, and the last first.
But many who ARE first will be last, and the last first.

⁵²“Go your way,” Jesus told him. “Your faith has healed you.”
GO your way, Jesus told him. Your faith has healed you.
Go your way, Jesus told him. YOUR faith has healed you.
Go your way, Jesus told him. Your FAITH has healed you.
Go your way, Jesus told him. Your faith HAS healed you.

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

Jesus heals the Blind man – Super Coloring

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

What does Jesus mean by the first shall be last and the last shall be first?
1. Got Questions explains this from Matthew’s Gospel.

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter Nine

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 75, March 16 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Nine

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 9
- Mk 9:1 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
- Mk 9:2-13 Mount of Transfiguration
- Mk 9²After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them.
- ³His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them.
- ⁴And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
- Peter puts his foot in his mouth again – let us make tents for each of you!
- ⁷Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”
- ⁹As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
- 11 says Why do they say that Elijah must first come?
- 13 Jesus says He did – (John) and they did whatever they wanted to him.
- Mk 9:14-29 Casting Out Demons
- Jesus, James John and Peter met back up with the other Apostles
- ¹⁶“What are you arguing with them about?” he asked.
- Man – I asked your disciples to save my son and they couldn’t
- ¹⁹“You unbelieving generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.”
- Man – if you can, deliver my boy
- ²³“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
- ²⁸After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
- ²⁹He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.(Other places and versions add fasting.
- Mk 9:30-32 Teaching HIs disciples
- ³¹because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.” ³²But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.
- Mk 9:33 – Capernaum Childish and Childlike
- arguing about who was the greatest
- ³⁵Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
- ³⁶He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, ³⁷“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”
- Mk 9:38- Who is with me?
- Someone was casting out demons in your name, but is not with us.
- ³⁹“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, ⁴⁰for whoever is not against us is for us.
- Mk 9:41 Cup of Water
- ⁴¹Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.
- Mk 9:42– Stumbling blocks
- ⁴²“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.
- ⁴³If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.
- ⁴⁷And if your eye causes you to stumble,
- Mk9:48-49 Be Salty
  - ⁵⁰“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

A good place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 8:29
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

What does it mean that salt is salty but if it loses it’s saltiness it’s worthless?
1. your answer

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter Eight

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 76, March 17 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Eight

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 8 (cross referenced with Matthew 15 & 16)
- Mk 8:1-10 Feeding Repeat!
  - In a deserted place
  - folks are hungry
  - Jesus – “Feed them”
  - Apostles – we don’t have enough money
  - Jesus ‘ “what DO you have?”
  - Blesses the seven loaves, and feeds 4000 with 7 baskets of leftovers.
  - ¹⁰and immediately got into the boat with His disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.^[b]
- Mk 8:11-13 No sign but Jonah (Mt 12:38-41)
- Mk 8:14- 21 Beware the Yeast of Pharisees
- Apostles forgot bread
- Jesus – “Beware of the yeast of Pharisees”
- Apostles – because we forgot bread
- ¹⁷Aware of this, He said to them, “Why are you discussing that you do not have any bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Is your heart hardened? ¹⁸Do you have eyes, and not see, and do you have ears, and not hear?^[c] And do you not remember?
- 5000 – 12 baskets
- 4000 – 7 baskets
- ²¹And He said to them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
- Mk 8:22- 26 Healing a blind man that took two attempts
- Partial sight – I see men as trees walking
- Full sight – ²⁵Again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and he saw distinctly. He was cured and could see everything clearly.
- Mk 8: 27- 30 Who do you say that I am?
- Peter answered Him, “You are the Messiah!”
- Mk 8:31-33
- ³¹Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, be killed, and rise after three days.
- Peter Rebukes Him
- He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns,^[e] but man’s!”
- Mk 8:34-38 Count the Cost
- He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
- ³⁶For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life? ³⁷What can a man give in exchange for his life?
- ³⁸For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
- Jim Elliot – ‘He is no fools who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
- Mindfully Meditating in Matthew 15, MMM16

A place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 8:29
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

²⁹“But you,” He asked them again, “who do you say that I am?” Peter answered Him, “You are the Messiah!”
WHO do you say that I am? You are the Messiah!
Who DO you say that I am? You are the Messiah!
Who do YOU say that I am? You are the Messiah!
Who do you SAY that I am? You are the Messiah!

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

Who do Say that I am – David Phelps

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

Jesus heals the Blind Man coloring page by ColoringHome

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

What is the sign of Jonah?
1. GotQuestions discusses this is Sign of Jonah
2. I have an Itty Bitty Bible Study on Jonah starting with this Introduction
What do you think about the Apostles forgetting about the feeding of the 5000, when they needed to feed the 4000?
1. Your answer
2. Leaven of the Pharisees by GotQuestions

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Lent Day 20 – The True Vine

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Lent Devotions
Lent Week Three – for Catch up.
Lent Week Four started March 5, 2018, March 23, 2019, and Feb 22, 2023

Lent Day Twenty
The True Vine

Music

You are the Vine – True Vine Music

Scripture Passage

John 15:1-19

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper. ²Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

Devotion

Actually, we are going to discuss John 15:1-19.

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper.
⁵“I am the vine; you are the branches.
- Jesus is speaking, so HE is the true vine.
²Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
⁸My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^[a] My disciples.
- Branches are to produce fruit
⁴Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.
⁵…The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without Me.
- Branches need to remain in the Vine
²Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes,
⁶If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
- Not remaining in Him is disastrous.
⁴Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.
⁷If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.
- There are benefits to remaining in the Vine

How do we ‘get into’ the vine?

Romans 11: ¹⁷But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root^[b] of the olive tree, ¹⁸do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. ¹⁹Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” ²⁰That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. ²¹For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

Romans 11: ²²Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Romans 11:²⁴For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

Yes, the Romans passages are talking about an olive tree, and the John passage is talking about a Vine, but I believe they are talking about the same concept.

There were those that were part of the Vine/Tree.
The disobeyed/unbelief
The vinedresser, husbandman found other healthy branches
They were grafted in

Now – just as in the John passage, if you don’t remain in the Vine you will be cut out, there is the warning to these branches that if they, the grafts, were to fall into unbelief, they would not be spared the outcome of the natural branches.

Once we are engrafted into the Vine or tree, it is our responsibility to remain in the vine/tree. IT IS OUR CHOICE!

How do we remain in the Vine?

In yesterday’s Lent, Day 19, we looked at how believing was a condition for receiving the Spirit of Truth.

Romans 11:²⁰That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith.

In The Itty Bitty Bible Study Ephesians 2, I talk about how

Ephesians 2⁸For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast.

This bears repeating:

Romans 11: ²²Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

We are IN the Vine/Tree because of God’s grace!

We love because HE first loved us. 1 John 4:19

Lent Day 19 talks about how we show our love to God – John 14 ¹⁵“If you love me, keep my commands.

And then, we produce much fruit. John 15⁸My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^[a] My disciples.

Matthew 13²³But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

We have been given the opportunity to be engrafted into the Vine, by grace through faith so that we can do good works and produce much fruit. It’s up to us to stay there – to remain – to abide.

There’s one more point – but I don’t know how to make it fit into this devotion. I do want to point it out. Jesus says:

John 15 ³You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

YOU ARE ALREADY CLEAN because of the word I have spoken to you!

Ephesians 5:²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶to make her holy, cleansing^[a] her by the washing with water through the word,²⁷and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

This says that husbands should follow Christ’s example, loving the church, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word. If there’s no earthly husband, we have the heavenly Bridegroom that will still wash us, as we go to Him in prayer and study.

Let’s stay engrafted!

Let’s stay clean!

Worship

I am the Vine – ILP Music

Remain in Me, I am the Vine – Steve Angrisano

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter 7

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 75, March 16 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Seven

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 7(With cross referencing to Matthew 15)
- Mk 7:1-23 – What causes defiling
- 1 The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Him.
- They observed the disciples eating with unclean hands which went against the teachings of the Leaders
- ⁵Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean^[b] hands?”
- Jesus calls them on their hypocrisy
- ⁸Disregarding the command of God, you keep the tradition of men.”^[d] ⁹He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain^[e] your tradition!
- The leaders had made it so that a son could say his wealth was for God and therefore didn’t need to take care of his parents, invalidating Honor your Father and Mother command.
- The point –
- ¹⁵Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
- ¹⁸And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him? ¹⁹For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated.”^[i] (As a result, He made all foods clean.^[j])
- What actually defiles
- ²⁰Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him. ²¹For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, ²²adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess,^[k] blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. ²³All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
- Mk7:24-30 Greek woman asking for healing
- Jesus – “…because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
- Woman – “Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”
- Jesus – “Because of this reply, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
- Her faith wouldn’t take a NO answer, and it seems she understood the heart of God.
- Mindfully Meditating in Matthew Chapter 15
- Mk 7:31-35 Deaf man with a speech difficulty
- ³⁵Immediately his ears were opened, his speech difficulty was removed,^[o] and he began to speak clearly.
- Mk 7:³⁷They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well! He even makes deaf people hear, and people unable to speak, talk!”

A place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 7:37
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

³⁷They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well! He even makes deaf people hear, and people unable to speak, talk!”
HE has done everything well! He even makes deaf people hear,
He HAS done everything well!
He has DONE everything well!
He has done EVERYTHING well!
He has done everything WELL!

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

All Things Well – A’Men Quartet

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

Why do you think Jesus went from talking about unclean hands to talking about honoring your Mother and Father?
1. GotQuestions answers what is CORBAN?
Why did Jesus call the woman a dog?
1. GotQuestions discusses this from the Matthew account.

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Lent Day 19 – Promise of a Comforter

Lent Devotions
Lent Week Three – for Catch up.
Lent Week Four started March 5, 2018 and March 23, 2019

Lent Day Nineteen
The Promise of a Comforter

Music

Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove – First Congregational Church of LA

Scripture

John 14:15-31
¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.
¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
¹⁸I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

white dove with an olive branch in it's mouth

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

Devotion

This week we looked at
on Monday, Mansions
Then, The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.
Tuesday, we looked at THE WAY.
Wednesday, we looked at the TRUTH.
Thursday, we looked at THE LIFE.

But today, we are jumping back to the original plan, and talking about the Promise of a Comforter.

Passage

John 14:15-31
¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.
¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
¹⁸I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

First, we need to look at

John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

The whole reason for this chapter is that Jesus doesn’t want the disciples hearts to be troubled. He says “LET NOT your hearts be troubled:”

There is something we can do to let not our hearts be troubled – and that is “ye believe in God, believe also in me.”

For us to be comforted, we must do something – BELIEVE!

John 14:1 HCSB – Your heart must not be troubled. Believe^[a] in God; believe also in Me.

“Let” is a verb.

“must not be” is a state of being.

The command is BELIEVE in God, BELIEVE also in Me.

We must believe in order to receive, and I’m not talking about “name it claim it” stuff…I’m talking about the fact that

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:6 ⁶But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

This gift is to BELIEVERS. Those who chose to live their life by FAITH.

The beginning of our passage is this:

John 14¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.

New Living Translation says it “If you love me, obey my commandments.

Every other version I looked at through www.BibleHub.com said Commandments.

What are the commands of Christ?

We could say the Beatitudes – but I think he was describing character qualities to aim for in the Sermon on the Mount.

Then what?

That brings us back to

John 14:1 Amplified
“Do not let your heart be troubled (afraid, cowardly). Believe [confidently] in God and trust in Him, [have faith, hold on to it, rely on it, keep going and] believe also in Me.

Doesn’t that fit? heart, soul, mind and strength – LOVE – and this being the main outcome of BELIEVING. These are the commands of Christ that I can absolutely say.

There are other things, like telling us to believe. But, he said it. If you love me, keep my commands. So, by faith – we are to love and believe. Yet, there is a condition for the promise:

John 14:1 Believe in, God believe also in me.
John 14:¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, ….

Does this “commandments” get repeated?

John 14:²¹He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 14:²³Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

We’ve agreed that the commandments are His great commandments given in Mark 12:30-31 (above). And the promise is that if we keep his commandments, He will send a comforter (vs 16, 17,26 ), He will come to us ( vs 18,21,23,), we shall live (vs 19), have His words brought to our remembrance ( vs 26) and PEACE (vs 27).

John 14:¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; ¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Who or What is this Spirit of Truth?

THE MYSTERY

John 14:¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 14: ¹⁸I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

John 14:²⁰At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

John 14:²³Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Jesus is hinting at the Triunity of God. Father, Son of Man/Son of God are spoken of in John 14:20 – and a comforter is mentioned in John 14:16.

The Spirit of Truth is part of the Godhead – but that’s another study. GotQuestions discusses the personhood of the Holy Spirit as God in great detail.

So assuming that the Holy Spirit is God – John 14:17 says He dwells with us and in this time, shall be IN us.

Who comes to live in us? THE GODHEAD!

Colossians 2:⁹For in him(Christ) dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

In Christ, dwells all the fulness of the Godhead – we know that.

Colossians 2:¹⁰And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

It is NOT unthinkable that the fullness of the Godhead dwells in us through the redeeming work of Christ, and our faith (belief) in Him.

A cool thing is that the power of the Godhead is the very power that existed in the beginning and created everything – CREATION POWER LIVES IN US!

Genesis1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:²And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Colossians 1¹⁵The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

What are some of the promises that come as comforts? I’m defining comfort as the freedom from fear.

verse 17 Spirit of Truth – freedom from lies
verse 19 Live eternally – freedom from fear of death
verse 26 Teach all things – freedom from spiritual ignorance
verse 26 bring remembrance – Proverbs 119:11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You. – freedom from power of Sin
verse 27 Peace – freedom from fear

Got Questions discusses what the Holy Spirit does – it’s A LOT. HE is a great gift!

The comforter, or The Comforter or The Spirit of Truth. The Holy Spirit, the third person in the Trinity. The gift is that He will dwell in us and help us, guide us, comfort us and protect us and lead us

Ephesians 4:13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

I wrote about the differences between the works of the flesh and the works of the Spirit in Itty Bitty Bible Study Ephesians 2.

Worship
Come Holy Spirit, Fall Afresh on Me – Maranatha Singers

Spirit Song – Edwin Hatch

Spirit of Our Living God, Fall afresh on Me – Marble Church

Spirit of the Living God – Vertical Worship

Where the Spirit of the Lord is – Hillsong Worship

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter Six

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 73, March 14 )

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Six

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 6 (cross referenced to Matthew 9, 10 and 14)
- Mk 6:1-6 Rejected
  - Hometown Boy – Nazareth
  - Preached – they dismissed him
    - ²When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these things?” they said. “What is this wisdom given to Him, and how are these miracles performed by His hands?
    - ³Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t His sisters here with us?” So they were offended by Him.
    - They also probably remembered the whole mess about Mary’s pregnancy – but that’s not Bible.
  - Because of their unbelief – few miracles were done there.
    - ⁵So He was not able to do any miracles^[a] there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. ⁶And He was amazed at their unbelief.
- Mk 6:7-13 Commissioning the Twelve
  - ⁷He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs
  - and gave them authority over unclean spirits.
  - ⁸He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick: no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts.
  - ⁹They were to wear sandals, but not put on an extra shirt.
  - ¹¹If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
  - ¹²preached that people should repent.
  - ¹³And they were driving out many demons,
  - anointing many sick people with olive oil, and healing them.
- Mk 6:14-29 Death of John the Baptist in Detail
  - ²⁹When his disciples^[i] heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb.
- Mk 6:30- 34 The Apostles returned
  - and Jesus tried to get them to a quiet place
  - People found them and surrounded them
  - ³⁴So as He stepped ashore, He saw a huge crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Then He began to teach them many things.
    - Mindfully Meditating on Matthew 10
- Mk 6:35-44 Feeding the 5,000
  - Got late
  - Master – send them away so they can eat
  - ³⁷“You give them something to eat,” He responded.
  - What DO you have?
  - five loaves and two fish
  - Jesus sat the people down in an orderly fashion
    - ⁴¹Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to His disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
    - ⁴²Everyone ate and was filled.
    - ⁴³Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.
    - ⁴⁴Now those who ate the loaves were 5,000 men.
      - Mindfully Meditating in Matthew 14
- Mk 6:45 -52 Sent the Apostles ahead in a boat
  - ⁴⁶After He said good-bye to them, He went away to the mountain to pray.
  - ⁴⁸He saw them being battered as they rowed,^[l] because the wind was against them.
  - Around three in the morning^[m] He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.
  - ⁵⁰for they all saw Him and were terrified.
  - Immediately He spoke with them and said, “Have courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
  - ⁵¹Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. They were completely astounded,
    - MMM14
    - Dear Peter
- Mk 6:53 – 56 Healings all around
  - ⁵⁶Wherever He would go, into villages, towns, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch just the tassel of His robe. And everyone who touched it was made well.

A place to see the four gospels compared is from Synoptic Gospel Parallels.

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 6:50
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

⁵⁰for they all saw Him and were terrified. Immediately He spoke with them and said, “Have courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
HAVE courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.
Have COURAGE! It is I. Don’t be afraid.
Have courage! IT IS I. Don’t be afraid.
Have courage! It is I! Don’t be afraid.

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

Little is Much if God is in It – Bible Baptist Church

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

Jesus Walking on the Water – SuperColoring

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

1. 1. Why do you think that Jesus was rejected by his hometown?
    1. is this the answer”
      1. ⁴Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his household.”
  2. How can we apply Jesus asking the disciples What do YOU have? YOU feed them?
    1. Got Questions discusses it from both Matthew and Mark.

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

M. Christine Wildman

“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

Naomi’s Heart Ministries
Obed’s House Ministries
The son of a friend will be interning with CRU – previously known as Campus Crusades for Christ. If you’d like to support someone I can vouch for in this area, please consider going to Matthew Plant’s donation page.

Marching into Mark Chapter Three

Marching into Mark Registry,
the collection of these studies
(First 100 days of 2023, day 65, March 6)

On Facebook, you can join us at Itty Bitty Bible Study Group.

Passage
Mark Chapter Three

It doesn’t matter which version you choose. It can be digital or paper. You can use one of those fancy coloring bibles and do a page or coloring along with the passage.

I will mostly do Holman Christian Standard Bible because of their copyright freedoms.

The Images that I use are from Knowing Jesus and are available as downloads in every format that I can imagine for screen savers and wallpapers.

Mark 3
- Mk 3:1-6 Healing on the Sabbath and the consequences
  - ⁴Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.
  - Hand is Healed
  - ⁶Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.
    - Matthew 12
- Mk 3:7-12 Ministering from a boat
  - ¹⁰Since He had healed many, all who had diseases were pressing toward Him to touch Him.
  - ¹¹Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, those possessed fell down before Him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”
- Mk 3:13- 19 the 12 apostles
  - ¹⁴He also appointed 12—He also named them apostles^[b]—to be with Him, to send them out to preach,
  - ¹⁵and to have authority to^[c] drive out demons.
  - names all twelve
    - Matthew 10
    - MMM10
- Mk 3:20-21 Family opinion
  - ²¹When His family heard this, they set out to restrain Him, because they said, “He’s out of His mind.”
- Mk 3:22 – 26 Casting out Demons
  - ²²The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul in Him!” and, “He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons!”
  - ²⁵If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
- Mk 3:27 – 30 Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
  - ²⁹But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”^[j]—
    - Matthew 12
- Mk 3:31-35 Finishes the topic about his family
  - ³¹Then His mother and His brothers came, and standing outside, they sent word to Him and called Him.
    - Remember – ²¹When His family heard this, they set out to restrain Him, because they said, “He’s out of His mind.”
  - True Family of God
    - ³³He replied to them, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”
    - ³⁴And looking about at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!
    - ³⁵Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

Mindful Meditating

choose a verse,
set a timer for 5 minutes, or whatever works for you.
example: Mark 3:35
repeat to yourself, and at each word, enunciate the next word in the sentence starting with the first word…

example:

³⁵Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
WHOEVER does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.
Whoever DOES the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.
Whoever does THE will of God is My brother and sister and mother.
Whoever does the WILL of God is My brother and sister and mother.

and so on. This will cause you to look at the verse more intently, and may have you memorize it before your five minutes are done.

Songs for Meditation

The Family God – Bill Gaither

This is the Kingdom – Elevation Worship

We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here – Ron Kenoly

Coloring – I use coloring to help me focus on the fullness of a verse.

Mark Coloring page – Ministry to Children – simple enough to finish in an hour or less

no other coloring pages, I’m sorry

Quick Questions – if you have time, or to think about over the course of the day, and jot down thoughts later. Some thoughts to dig deeper.

What was so important about healing on the sabbath?
1. GotQuestions has an excellent discussion on this.
Why did Jesus tell demons to be silent?
1. No one really knows, but there are some great discussions on Biblical Heremuetics
2. I refer to Mark 1:45 as a reason.
What was Jesus saying about family when He pointed to everyone around Him?
1. There is a great, deeper dive into this at Understanding that will enlighten and challenge you.

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Got Questions provides a detailed explanation of The Roman’s Road.
Billy Graham’s version of the Plan of salvation.

Thanks for joining me in this journey,
In His hands and under His wings,
~Christi
Ps 63:7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

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“The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear.
If my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation.
If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself.” – from My Utmost for His highest

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