by Brad Blocksom | May 1, 2018 | Biblical Studies, New Testament, Scripture
Mark 14:3-9 Jesus is Anointed for His Death Last time we began the Passion narrative with the revelation that there was an explicit plot to kill Jesus. This time we see the surety of His impending death become clearer (though few present seem to see this truth). This...
by Brad Blocksom | Jan 25, 2018 | Biblical Studies, New Testament, Scripture
Mark 14:1-2 The Plot to Kill Jesus So we’ve finally finished our look at the Olivet Discourse, where Jesus predicts God’s judgment on Israel with the destruction of the Temple. Just prior to that we saw Jesus take on essentially every religious group in...
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...
