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Mark 9:33-37 How to Be Great
Mark 9:33-37 33 And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35 And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he…
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Mark 9:30-32 Repeat Messages
Mark 9:30-32 30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32 But…
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Mark 9:14-29 Preparation for Warfare
Mark 9:14-29 14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 15 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. 16 And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17 And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher,…
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Book Review: God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
As part of our required reading, we were asked to read anti-theist Christopher Hitchen’s book God is Not Great. I had a hard time reading this book for many reasons. Here is my review of the book: In God’s not Great, Hitchens set out by giving us four irreducible objections to religious faith. This objection…
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Why Homiletics is Important?
I used enthusiastically to listen to him preach to the people, not with the intention which I ought to have had, but as if testing out his oratorical skill to see whether his fluency was better or inferior than it was reported to be… I was not interested in learning what he was talking about.…