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Saturday, July 31, 2010

For He Had Healed Many

Posted by Pastor Pat on April 10, 2009

Read Mark 3:7-12

The paragraph before us (Mark 3:7-12) forms a transition from one idea (Mark 2:1-3:6) to that of selecting His twelve disciples (3:13ff).  It is both a summary and an introduction.  In summarizing the ministry of Jesus, no statement is made concerning His teaching ministry.  Such an idea is assumed and established earlier in chapters 1 and 2 (1:21, 22; 2:13; 4:1, 2; 6:2, 6, 34; etc.).

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Is it Lawful to Do Good or to Do Harm on the Sabbath, to Save a Life or to Kill?

Posted by Pastor Pat on April 6, 2009

Read Mark 3:1-6

How do we live so as to produce life and not death?  Christ brings liberty to the captive, sight to the blind, healing to the sick, and power to the impotent (Luke 4).  How do we become ambassadors of such truth without “selling out”?  How do we maintain the purity of the gospel without forsaking the purpose of the gospel?

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