TEXT The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless
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TEXT Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph,
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TEXT Read all of Mark 5 THEOLOGY Jesus is a demon chaser and liberator—and he is also a trouble maker. He is not afraid to journey to the margins of decent society and find the destructors and the self-destructors. And everyone is uncomfortable when he makes the insane asylum no longer necessary. This remarkable passage not only teaches us compassion and hope for the obsessed and depressed, the cutters and
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TEXT That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples
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welcome Thank you for joining us on-line. Some of us at OCC are meeting in-person, some are meeting on-line. God calls all of us into his presence; calls us to be together with him and with one another; calls us to wait with and for him; calls us to serve & bless others – those who are part of God’s kingdom and those who have not yet responded to God’s
welcome Thank you for joining us on-line. Some of us at OCC are meeting in-person, some are meeting on-line. God calls all of us into his presence; calls us to be together with him and with one another; calls us to wait with and for him; calls us to serve & bless others – those who are part of God’s kingdom and those who have not yet responded to God’s
