by Brad Blocksom | Nov 28, 2017 | Biblical Studies, New Testament, Scripture
Mark 13:32-37 No One Knows When This is the final installment (Part 6) of our sub-series (the Olivet Discourse) within a series (Discipleship in Mark – Follow Me). So let’s launch right into it! “But about that day or hour” (the coming of the...
by Brad Blocksom | Nov 15, 2017 | Biblical Studies, New Testament, Scripture
Mark 13:28-31 The Lesson of the Fig Tree And now a Parable about a fig tree. It would seem that this fig tree is being symbolically used by Jesus in a significantly different way from the withered fig tree of Mark 11:12-14 & 20-25. There the fig tree serves as a...
by Brad Blocksom | Oct 28, 2017 | Evangelicalism, Leadership, Missional, Practical Theology
Dear Protestants, Coming up this Tuesday (October 31, 2017) we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation launched by a simple act of academic publication, when an Augustin Monk and Professor of Sacred Theology at the University of...
by Brad Blocksom | Oct 10, 2017 | Biblical Studies, New Testament, Scripture
Mark 13:24-27 The Coming of the Son of Man (though we know not when) Verse 24 gives the timing of the coming of the Son of Man in relation to “that tribulation” (what tribulation, you ask? The war in Judea as just described in v. 14-23). The return of...
by Brad Blocksom | Sep 5, 2017 | Biblical Studies, New Testament, Scripture
Mark 13:14-23 The Desolating Sacrilege and Call to Flee Judea Jesus now comes as close as He ever will to answering the disciples’ question about when to expect the destruction of the Temple which He just prophesied. Daniel’s prophecy (Dan. 9:27, 11:31,...
