In chapter 4 Mark records 4 parables Jesus teaches and an account of the storm he calms. The first parable Mark retells is the parable of the sower, one of the few that Jesus explains later to His disciples. In some ways it is not out of place in a modern context because most of…
Month: November 2016
Gig Review: NI Music Prize 2016 – Ash
Last Friday my wife and I attended the NI Music Awards 2016 presentation of the OH Yeah Legends award to Ash. Growing up in the 90s as teenagers Ash were one of our favourite bands and we were excited to be out together. We’d been talking about it for a while and were excited to…
Staff Devotions – Mark 3: The Pharisaical Irony
At the beginning of Mark 3 we find Jesus in a Synagogue again. Mark documents, there he noticed a man with a deformed hand. Should He heal on the sabbath, the holy day, set apart for God, instructed to be devoid of work? The Pharisees didn’t seem to think so, Mark already made that point…