Holy Tuesday Holy Tuesday is sometimes called Fig Tuesday because the disciples (and Jesus) come upon the fig tree that Jesus cursed on Monday afternoon.  It's also a day that leaders sought to discre...  Read More

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of thos...  Read More

Palm Sunday Today is Palm Sunday. In the traditional church calendar (observed by many denominations), Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent (the 40 days before Easter), the beginning of Holy Week (...  Read More

Passover In Mark 14 (vs. 12-31), while celebrating Passover, Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper, harkening back to the first Passover.  Read these verses from Exodus 12 (vs. 3-13 ESV) and reflect on t...  Read More

Blessing the Bodyby Jan Richardson Can you make any connections between this poem and Mark 14:12-31?  This blessing takesone look at youand all it can say isholy.Holy hands.Holy face.Holy feet.Holy ev...  Read More

Mark 14:12-31 In preparation for the sermon (March 24), read the text of Mark 14:12-31 and ask God to show you: What is important in this passage?  What is important to Jesus? And on the first day of ...  Read More

Prudence An old-fashioned word, prudence, doesn't get much airtime these days (unless we happen to be watching an SNL clip of Dana Carvey impersonating GW Bush).  But prudence has long been considered...  Read More

The Women When we do an expository study of the Bible, from time to time we need to take a step backward and look at the big picture. Mark 13 describes the destruction of the temple and the end of the...  Read More

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone.  Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.” Mark 14:6 ESVThis woman wasted one years’ worth of wages on Jesus.  Calculate what you make in a year,...  Read More

Sweetly Broken As you are preparing for church today or in your afternoon rest, consider the words to this song and how they may relate to the truths of Mark 14:1-11.......  Read More

Anointing  The story of Jesus' anointing appears in all four gospels, each slightly different.  Scholars disagree on whether this anointing occurred on one single occasion or as two (or more) separate...  Read More

Those Winter Sundaysby Robert Hayden Take a moment to read through this poem, perhaps more than once.  What does it say about sacrificial love? How can you connect this poem to the text of Mark 14:1-1...  Read More