I am working on the third message in the Images of Jesus series. In the verses of chapter 2 of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus begins to pick on the religious people. They are called scribes in these verses.
Most of the time when I read about Jesus picking on the religious people, I think that he is talking about the blue haired ladies and the grumpy old men who tell you not to run in church. Or the people at my daughter's Christian school that make up the dress code that says no flip flops or stitching on jeans and shirts must have a collar, as if a collar is going to save my daughter from hell or keep a 2nd grade boy from lusting after her.
But if I allow myself to think clearly, he is talking about me. I am a religious person. I connect with the Pharisees and scribes a lot more than I readily admit. Come join us this week and hear Jesus picking on religious people and watch him start a life friendship with a murdering cheat.
Yeah, it's kinda like that
Lost is a TV show that it seems everyone wants to know about and watch. Some like it, some are confused by it, some love it and pattern their lives around it, some hate it, some think it is very strange, some believe it is unbelievable. Most of those things you can say about Jesus...some love him, some are confused by him, some pattern their lives around him etc.
We begin our series on the book of Mark this week and it is kind of like Lost and like this clip (click on the title of this blog post for a youtube clip). The last few minutes of the clip appear to be some sort of commercial, please pardon that.
This clip about Lost is getting a lot of information out quickly. The intent is to catch you up on what you need to know to know what in the world is going on.
The book of Mark is a series of orchestrated "clips" on the life of Christ written in a very quick moving fashion. Many of the verses in Mark start with the word "and". This is a literary device to show the urgency of the writer. The book is not intended to show great details, just get you what you need to know about Jesus.
We start this week, February 8th at 5:00 at 845 Dunn Road with our series investigating the life of Jesus. You can join us there or follow on the web with our podcast link from northchurchstl.com. There is also a companion discussion group that will meet in homes across the area. More info about those groups can be found at northchurchstl.com as well.
We begin our series on the book of Mark this week and it is kind of like Lost and like this clip (click on the title of this blog post for a youtube clip). The last few minutes of the clip appear to be some sort of commercial, please pardon that.
This clip about Lost is getting a lot of information out quickly. The intent is to catch you up on what you need to know to know what in the world is going on.
The book of Mark is a series of orchestrated "clips" on the life of Christ written in a very quick moving fashion. Many of the verses in Mark start with the word "and". This is a literary device to show the urgency of the writer. The book is not intended to show great details, just get you what you need to know about Jesus.
We start this week, February 8th at 5:00 at 845 Dunn Road with our series investigating the life of Jesus. You can join us there or follow on the web with our podcast link from northchurchstl.com. There is also a companion discussion group that will meet in homes across the area. More info about those groups can be found at northchurchstl.com as well.
Images of Jesus
We are begining a new series on February 8th called Images of Jesus from the gospel of Mark. Aristotle said, "The soul never thinks without a picture." It is the truth of this statements that motivates us to begin this new series from the gospel of Mark.
The style of the book is unlike the other gospels. It is not a seamless story. Instead it is a collection of clips of the life of Jesus. It is a lot like walking through a museum where you might see artifacts or photos or newspaper clippings from historical events. The point of any museum is to show the life of someone or something from history.
The gospel is written during the time of of Nero's rule of the Roman Empire. At the time Nero was killing Christians and using them as human torches to provide light and entertainment for his night time parties. In the time of it's writing, the gospel of Mark is of great need for the Christians in Rome. It's focus on Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God give endurance to the Christian in and around Rome in the face of this great oppression.
Mark never met Jesus face to face, but he uses the apostle Peter as his source. Mark was a helper to Peter during Peter's work after Jesus left the earth. In the Biblical accounts of the life of Jesus, no humans were closer to Him than Peter. Mark's gospel is the product of following peter and listening to him tell stories of the man Jesus of Nazareth.
Join us at 5 at North County Christian School or on our podcast starting Sunday Feb. 8.
The style of the book is unlike the other gospels. It is not a seamless story. Instead it is a collection of clips of the life of Jesus. It is a lot like walking through a museum where you might see artifacts or photos or newspaper clippings from historical events. The point of any museum is to show the life of someone or something from history.
The gospel is written during the time of of Nero's rule of the Roman Empire. At the time Nero was killing Christians and using them as human torches to provide light and entertainment for his night time parties. In the time of it's writing, the gospel of Mark is of great need for the Christians in Rome. It's focus on Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God give endurance to the Christian in and around Rome in the face of this great oppression.
Mark never met Jesus face to face, but he uses the apostle Peter as his source. Mark was a helper to Peter during Peter's work after Jesus left the earth. In the Biblical accounts of the life of Jesus, no humans were closer to Him than Peter. Mark's gospel is the product of following peter and listening to him tell stories of the man Jesus of Nazareth.
Join us at 5 at North County Christian School or on our podcast starting Sunday Feb. 8.
