What does Jesus say about sabbath? How can we apply his wisdom in our lives? Ellen Williams Hensle writes on Mark 2:23–3:6.
"Sometimes, we need to let the mystery be," writes Kyle Walker.
Teri McDowell Ott considers Acts 2 in light of the Tower of Babel. Perhaps the gift of Pentecost is the cure for a lonely world, she writes.
What would life look like if we sought out those we don't know, asks Teri McDowell Ott?
"All manner of things are not well," writes Carol Holbrook Prickett. "Yet, I have seen nothing more rule-breaking, more transforming than God’s love ... and the people who carry it to one another."
Who are the people who showed you the gospel? Each one of those relationships is the church, just like Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch are the church, writes Tara Bulger.
"Fostering a sense of belonging means giving up some of our control, allowing ourselves to be guests instead of hosts in a space that feels like ours," writes Teri McDowell Ott.
Resurrection is happening all around us, all the time, writes Ellen Williams Hensle.
We, like the disciples in John 20, are called to leave the security of locked doors and closed minds, to leave the safety of status so we the Holy Spirit can send us into the world God loves, writes Chris Currie.
The original end of Mark's Gospel is one full of questions and fear, writes Teri McDowell Ott. And that's ok. It’s not a fear without faith or hope.
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