All this talk about teachers of the law and the Pharisees and you might be thinking, what does this have to do with me? I have been reflecting on this passage and I realize there is a lot more religion in my life than I care to admit. Earlier, I shared how religious people are […]
10 Years after the Bubble Burst, Air is Still Leaking
Remember Netscape? How about webvan.com? Or pets.com? Here is an article which highlights the biggest successes and failures among the biggest names in the dot.com world in the past 25 years. When I graduated from college in the late nineties, the economy was booming. Dot.coms were all the rage. I graduated as an anthropology major […]
Pastor Francis Chan is Preparing to Leave Cornerstone to Follow God on a New Adventure
I like Francis Chan. I’m about to read his book, “Crazy Love.” I have watched a few youtube clips of him speaking in recent months. But I have only listened to a couple of his podcasts. And this past week, I was driving to work and was going through my list of podcasts, which I […]
Mark 3 : “The Queen Bee and the Swarm vs. the Asteroid” (Part 2 of 3)
How do the teachers of the law and the Pharisees view Jesus? They view him as a threat. He threatens their entire religious system. He threatens what they had worked so hard to attain. The social standing. The financial security. They must have thought, I will distinguish myself from the other Pharisees, I will out-compete […]
Mark 3 : "The Queen Bee and the Swarm vs. the Asteroid" (Part 1 of 3)
1Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. 2Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front […]
Mark 2: Are You Critical of Jesus? (Part 4 of 4)
Fourth, Jesus is criticized by Pharisees for doing work on the Sabbath and breaking Sabbath law — 23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” […]