51. Jesus Has Compassion on the Crowd – Mark 6:32-34
Mark Devotional #51 – Everywhere you look today, there is a sense of “lostness” in the world. People desperately seek their identity in temporary, material things that ultimately …
52. The Crowds Are Hungry – Mark 6:35-37
Mark Devotional #52 – The crowds are hungry. Too often we think there’s a problem when there really isn’t, because Jesus is still in control. And Jesus lets us try to fix it to he…
53. Jesus Feeds the People – Mark 6:37-42
Mark Devotional #53 – When Jesus tells the disciples that they should give the people something to eat, they respond to him with economics! They show him how it’s an economic impo…
54. Gathering the Leftovers – Mark 6:42-44
Mark Devotional #54 – We often focus on the feeding of the five thousand and not on what was leftover. We do the same things in our lives as well. We are often so fixated on what …
55. Jesus Calms the Wind – Mark 6:45-52
Mark Devotional #55 – “Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land. He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them…
56. Healings in the Gennesaret Region – Mark 6:53-56
Mark Devotional #56 – Mark wants us to contrast Jesus’ experience in Nazareth with his experience in Gennesaret. Here they ran from throughout the whole region to welcome Jesus. Here, the people had…
57. The Traditions of the Pharisees – Mark 7:1-4
Mark Devotional #57 – The Pharisees believed that in order to properly keep the law that is found in the Bible, it was important to keep hundreds of other more specific oral laws …
58. What is Hypocrisy? – Mark 7:5-8
Mark Devotional #58 – A striking thing in what Jesus says to the Pharisees is his definition of hypocrisy. We tend to think that hypocrisy is saying one thing but doing another. M…
59. How to Nullify the Word of God? – Mark 7:9-13
Mark Devotional #59 – How can someone nullify the Word of God? Human traditions are much easier to follow than the commandments of God. Because they’re human rules, you don’t risk…
60. What Defiles You – Mark 7:14-23
Mark Devotional #60 – The Pharisees taught that you became a sinner when you allowed what was outside you in the sinful world into your life. But the teaching of Jesus was the opp…
