Date: 11/28/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Jesus's Radical Message Of Sin And Salvation
Scripture: Mark 7:1-37
Description: In chapter 7, by relating Jesus’s confrontation with the Pharisees along with his ministry among the Gentiles, Mark exposes the two sides of Jesus’s radical message: the problem of sin is universal, but the promise of salvation is universal too.
Date: 11/14/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Overexposure And Underappreciation
Scripture: Mark 6:1-56
Description: In chapter 6 Mark illustrates how we should respond to Jesus by contrast to two more examples of unbelief. People in Jesus’s hometown were offended by his claims to authority because they’d been inoculated through overexposure. They were familiar with Jesus as brother and son and carpenter, but he seemed too familiar for them to accept his radical words or actions. Jesus’s disciples struggle with another sort of unbelief, which Mark illustrates with the stories of Jesus feeding 5000 people and Jesus walking on water. Confronted with vivid danger, the disciples respond in fear because, as Mark explains, they failed to appreciate the significance of Jesus’s miraculous provision in the past.
Date: 11/07/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Jesus Is More Powerful
Scripture: Mark 4:35-5:43
Description: Mark demonstrates in these stories that Jesus is more powerful than nature, evil, sickness, and even death. In each case, the person or group afflicted with their malady is paralized by fear. Jesus’s response to them is his message to us: “Do not fear, only believe.”
Date: 10/31/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: "The Kingdom Is Like"
Scripture: Mark 4:21-34
Description: In this batch of parables Jesus explains what the kingdom is like by analogy to familiar images, all of which aim to show why the kingdom doesn’t look like most expected. The kingdom is like a lamp which, though hidden initially, is ultimately brought in to be revealed. It’s like a seed that grows even though the farmer merely goes to sleep and wakes up again; in other words, kingdom growth is inevitable because God alone makes it grow. And the kingdom is like a mustard seed, small in its beginning but unmatched in its end. If this is what the kingdom is like, how do we respond?
Date: 10/17/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Do We Do With Jesus?
Scripture: Mark 3:7-35
Description: There is more than one way to respond to the claims and work of Jesus. Mark gives us three options. We can respond by calling him a crazy eccentric, an evil demon, or Lord.
Date: 10/10/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Jesus And Religion-As-Usual
Scripture: Mark 2:18-3:6
Description: Mark begins to document the opposition that builds against Jesus, ultimately leading to his execution. Why did the religious leaders, who were experts of the law, fail to understand the signficance of Jesus and his kingdom? How do we avoid similar error?
Date: 10/03/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Will You Be Forgiven?
Scripture: Mark 2:1-17
Description: At the beginning of chapter 2, Mark reveals new dimensions of Jesus’s identity and mission. Mark’s stories show that Jesus has the unique ability to forgive sins, and that this is precisely what he came here to do. The only question, then, is whether you will come to Jesus for forgiveness.
Date: 09/26/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Jesus's Liberating Authority
Scripture: Mark 1:16-45
Description: In this passage Mark tells a group of stories designed to show that Jesus came preaching the kingdom with a remarkably distinctive authority. But these stories also reveal a paradoxical truth: submission to Jesus’s loving authority sets you free.
Date: 09/19/10
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Who Is Jesus?
Scripture: Mark 1:1-16
Description: If we are to understand why Mark labels his story about Jesus as “good news,” we must first see how he answers the three questions at the heart of his story: Who is Jesus? What did Jesus come here to do? And what does that require of us?
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