Mark 9:30-37 – Drew Downs

Let us all be free

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9 min read

Jesus engages the disciples in their distraction and confusion—naming the way they are becoming the temptation to sin.

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In the turning point in the gospel of Mark, Jesus is confronted with Peter’s ignorance and empire’s promise of safe oppression.

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The challenge of the Passion Predictions is that they force us to confront our failure to follow Jesus, to love in the way he teaches.

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In the second passion prediction, Jesus again upends the disciples’ expectations (and ours) for a messiah, and for his followers.

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8 min read

Jesus teaches about God’s dream for creation, even as those closest to him misunderstand. Even as we misunderstand.