Glory is the Weight of One’s Greatness In the New Testament, the word glory means honor, renown and splendor that evokes good opinion. But it draws from the Old Testament idea of weight. Figuratively, glory is the weight of one’s honor, renown and splendor. Think of someone great and picture gold coins added to a […]
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Humanity is afflicted with a real spiritual condition: blindness. We are all spiritually blind unless God intervenes through Jesus Christ, opening our eyes. Jesus’ describes the symptoms in Mark 8:17-21: Difficulty perceiving or understanding spiritual things Hard heartedness Unseeing eyes Unhearing ears Poor memory Discussion Starters Read Mark 8:14-30 together. Thinking specifically about verses 14-21, how
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The Most Important Result The most important result that can come from you reading this sermon recap is not that you are impressed by my writing, or that you are entertained, or even that you are helped in regard to some practical issue in your life. The most important result is that you might understand and receive Jesus
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31Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33And taking him aside from the crowd
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24And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. 25But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.
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14And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” 17And when he had entered the house and left
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