A Disciple’s Trust

Passage: Mark 4:35-41 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 4:35-41:      35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him….

A Disciple’s Patient Hope

Passage: Mark 4:26-34 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 4:26-34:      And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first…

Are You Listening?

Passage: Mark 4:1-20 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 4:1-20:      Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land….

A Disciple’s Family

  Passage: Mark 3:13-35 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 3:13-35:      And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send…

A Disciple’s Rest

Passage: Mark 2:23-3:6 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection  Read Mark 2:23-3:6: One Sabbath he was going through the grain fields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”…

A Disciple’s Community

Passage: Mark 2:13-17 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 2:13-17:       He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to…

A Disciple’s Source

Passage: Mark 1:35-39 Guide for Group Discussion or Personal Reflection Read Mark 1:35-39:  And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 36 And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, 37 and they found him and…

Advent Devotional Week 4: The Candle of Love

Click Here to Download the Full Devotional (PDF) Art for Week 4 Fog and Rust Original Song by Steve Dagley Fog and Rust: I was burning through a fever I couldn’t tell day from night As I fumbled through that dimness I felt I’d been living this way for most Most of my life I…