Mark

How to approach Jesus' strict teaching about divorce and remarriage as it appears in Mark's Gospel, without the somewhat more lenient amendments of Matthew and Paul?

When Jesus' disciples imitate Joshua, the irony is delicious: they have just spectacularly failed to cast out the demon troubling a boy from childhood.

Mark's story is about the irony of keeping our hands ritually washed while being up to our elbows in evil.

Jesus does not serve the vague “God of everybody.” He serves the scandalously particular God of Israel.

Have the disciples started to think this is all about them? I know I would.

Just in case we don't get it yet, we are now told of John the Baptist.

The villagers of Nazareth knew Jesus, and they thought him to be nothing special.

Rejection has been the traveling companion of the gospel from the beginning.

This week's texts are great stewardship texts. Why not use them that way? We can ask for money more than once a year.

"And they took him with them in the boat." Why is Jesus suddenly in the passive role?

Apparently some people are determined to get rid of Jesus—and some are willing to push through any barrier to get near him.