John Bryant
Mark 8:11-13: Our Suspicion That the Christ Who Died Is Not Enough
11 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. 12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit...
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John Bryant
Oct 5, 20213 min read
Mark 8:1-10: A Word of Mercy, A World of Grace
1 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, 2...
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John Bryant
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Mark 7:31-37: A Private Mercy, a Public Witness
31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32 And they...
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John Bryant
Aug 31, 20213 min read
Mark 7: 24-30: No Protection From Our Own Vulnerability
24 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he...
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John Bryant
Aug 17, 20214 min read
Mark 7: 1-23: Christ has Made His Home in the Profanity of the Human Heart
7 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2 they saw that some of his disciples ate...
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John Bryant
Aug 10, 20211 min read
Mark 6: 53-56: What Else Can Anguish Be?
53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. 54 And when they got out of the boat, the people...
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John Bryant
Jul 19, 20213 min read
Mark 6:45-52: All We Can Be Is Vulnerable and Not Afraid
45 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd....
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John Bryant
Jul 4, 20213 min read
Mark 6:30-44: Two Ways to Trust Christ
30 The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. 31 And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a...
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John Bryant
Jun 27, 20213 min read
Mark 6:14-29: A Gospel That Ruins the Pacts We've Made with Ourselves
14 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus name had become known. Some[c] said, “John the Baptist[d] has been raised from the dead. That is why...
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John Bryant
Apr 25, 20212 min read
Mark 6:7-13: To Depend On Christ Is To Make Your Life a Wilderness of Miraculous Provision
7 And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8 He charged them to...
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John Bryant
Apr 18, 20212 min read
Mark 6:1-6: His Mercy Will Have to Do More Than Heal
He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the...
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John Bryant
Mar 24, 20214 min read
Mark 5: 21-43: The Wound of Being Unwanted
21 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 22 Then...
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John Bryant
Mar 14, 20213 min read
Mark 5:1-20: That Which Mercy Alone Can Untangle
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when Jesushad stepped out of the boat, immediately there...
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John Bryant
Mar 1, 20214 min read
Mark 4:35-41: When Ordinary Life is a Sinking Ship
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”36 And leaving the crowd, they took him with...
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John Bryant
Feb 14, 20212 min read
Mark 4:30-34 When the Gospel is not in competition with time
30 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed,...
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John Bryant
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Mark 4:26-29: When Christ Dies There Will Be Strange Fruit
26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed...
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John Bryant
Jan 15, 20212 min read
Mark 4:21-25: So Many Things Are Known Only to Christ
21 And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?22 For nothing is hidden...
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John Bryant
Jan 8, 20213 min read
Mark 4:1-20--Anxiety Has No Defense Against Our Smallness
Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea,...
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John Bryant
Dec 30, 20204 min read
Mark 3:20-35: With Every Consistent and Tender Offer of Self, We Plunder the Household of Satan
20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to...
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John Bryant
Dec 4, 20203 min read
1 Peter 2:11-25: Christ's Wounds as the Way Forward
11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your...
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