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I Beg You

Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him, saying, ‘Send us to the pigs; let us enter them. So he gave them permission.’”    Mark 5:11-13 People regularly...

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Whole Way

Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” (Mark 1:41) The ghastly label of leper was his sole identification, for we are not privy to his name or the...

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Boulder

“And they were saying to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?’” (Mark 16:3) The spices weighed heavily in their arms; one thought was heaviest on their minds....

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By The Seashore

“He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: ‘Listen.’” (Mark 4:2) The situation could easily have turned ugly. As the crowds surged toward him, they threatened to crush Christ with...

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Waiting in Line

“When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.” (Mark 6:34) Compassion is not a flimsy garment slung across the Savior’s...

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Handle With Care

“Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, ‘I will; be clean,’” (Mark 1:41) The ghastly label of leper is his sole identification mark, for we are not informed of his...

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Hands‐On

“How are such mighty works done by his hands?” (Mark 6:2) His calloused hands – accustomed to hammer and nails, splinters of wood and planks of lumber – carted carpentry tools long before they healed a...

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Rest Stop

“Come away by yourselves….” (Mark 6:30) Squeezed between the horrific beheading of John the Baptist and the magnificent miracle of the five thousand stands an overlooked passage that invites us to love...

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Wrong Turn

“Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.” (Mark 12:24) The Sadducees often attempted to stump Jesus. They never could. No matter the farcical...

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