Mark

Just in case we don't get it yet, we are now told of John the Baptist.

The villagers of Nazareth knew Jesus, and they thought him to be nothing special.

Rejection has been the traveling companion of the gospel from the beginning.

This week's texts are great stewardship texts. Why not use them that way? We can ask for money more than once a year.

"And they took him with them in the boat." Why is Jesus suddenly in the passive role?

Apparently some people are determined to get rid of Jesus—and some are willing to push through any barrier to get near him.

A new reformation of the seed and the corn is evolving.

When I was a child, I loved Palm Sunday because we got to act out the biblical version of a ticker-tape parade. Later I learned of the ephemeral quality of stardom and parades and decided that Palm Sunday and Passion Week belong together. As a pastor, I have accepted the dismal fact that most of our people skip Thursday, Friday and Saturday, slipping from parade pandemonium to Easter ecstasy with none of the suffering and pain.

Jesus and Peter care about each other enough to call each other out.

Jesus and Peter care about each other enough to call each other out.

The Christian church was born with Simon Peter’s mother-in-law.

True prophets have a different bottom line than false ones, but that doesn’t make them any easier to recognize.

If it were me, I would have stayed in the fishing boat or dithered about what to do until Jesus was just a speck on the horizon.

Will the water bring death or life?