What is the heart of true Christian discipleship? According to Jesus, in Mark 8, the heart of true Christian discipleship is death! Here Jesus presents an extremely challenging view of…
Why did Jesus have to die? In Mark 8 Jesus tells his followers that "the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief…
Religion can be a very polarising subject. The charge is often leveled that specific religions divide between who's in and who's out according to their doctrine or practices. Rather than…
Do you know how to rest truly? Do you know what it means to rest from the work underneath the work? There's a place in Mark's Gospel where, on two…
It's hard to deny that Jesus' stamp on human history is enormous. But just how big a deal is he really? In the opening chapter of the Gospel of Mark…