Mark 8

I don't quite understand when Jesus is talking about the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod. I know that Jesus ends it by saying, "Do you still not understand?"
Unfortunately, I don't quite get it.

Mark 7

The first part of this chapter that sticks out is when Jesus talks about clean and unclean foods. I know that there are plenty of religions now that don't eat certain foods and it is weird to me. I'm glad that Jesus said that all foods were good to eat. We would be missing out on a lot of good things.
The second thing that stood out to me was the part at the end after Jesus had healed the deaf and mute. He told them not to tell anyone. Why? Did I miss something earlier about this? It seems like good marketing to get the word out about what Jesus can do and for people to be able to build their faith believing that Jesus is the Christ that he has said that he is.

Mark 6

I like the part where Jesus says that only in the place where Jesus grew up and was that people really respected him for who and what he did. They were amazed, but giving him a hard time because it was expected that he wouldn't have as much knowledge of the spiritual sides that he had. After doing some reading I now understand why the people were so puzzled with Jesus' knowledge of the Bible and able to teach in the temple. It was the father's duty to teach his son a trade and it was expected that Jesus would have been a carpenter. Any child that did not follow in his father's footsteps was looked at as a failure of the father's responsibilites.
I think about what it is like to have someone famous grow up around you. Someone that you have known for awhile and have gotten used to them in a different sence. People in Jesus' home town had gotten used to Jesus and knew what he was like. Others were shocked at what they saw. I think that is neat.

Mark 5

I love this chapter because it focuses on having faith. The woman who was sick was healed by faith. The little girl who had died was resurrected by Jesus because of the faith of those that loved her. I think about the lady who just wanted to touch Jesus because with her faith, she knew that she would be healed. That is awesome. I want to be that way. I want to have that kind of faith. I have times where I feel my faith is pretty strong, but more often than not, I have times where I know that I am weak. I just want the chance to grow more and see more and do more to be able to grow my faith to know all that God does for me. I need to work on that and to just believe in how much He can really do.

Mark 4

I like the times in the Bible when the disciples don't understand stuff and Jesus "rebukes" them. As a teacher, I think it would neat to watch Jesus call out his "students." Sometimes in my class I know that there is probably a better way to do it. I think it would be neat to just watch him do it and to see the reactions of the faces of the disciples. If I were the disciples, I think I would be both scared about not following his teachings, and awestruck. That would be quite the awesome feeling.

Mark 3

When I think about the apostles, I think about how much of an honor they must have felt having Jesus choose them to be his disciples. I watched a video series by (Tyler help me out, it was from the twenty-somethings group. His name is just not there for me) and he talked about how hard people worked to be a disciple for a rabbi. They had to memorize so much scripture, they had to serve the rabbi, they had to do so much as far as just trynig to impress the rabbi. After many steps, the best of the best were chosen to be the disciples of the rabbi. It took years of terribly hard work to be able to even get to a point of consideration to be a disciple. All this said, how cool it must have been for Jesus' disciples. Jesus saw good in them and knew that they would be able to do his work and spread the gospel. Normal people just plucked out of the crowd.
That's us, just normal people.

Mark 2

The sick need doctors not the ones that are healthy. We talked about it from Matthew, but I still think this is a very important phrase to think about during our daily lives. We do all hang out on weekends and during the week, but we still need to use our time in our workplaces and at other times to try and share our faith with those that we are with each and every day.