Please read Mark 5 for today. Click the following link, or read from your own bible as you wish.
Mark 5 (New International Version)
Contemplate the following questions and ideas during and after you read the chapter. Feel free to write your thoughts in a follow up to this post (keep in mind your posts will be available to the public).
This chapter is composed of three powerful stories of healings. Which one is your favorite? Why? How do you need Jesus Christ to bring healing to your life?
New Testament Bible Study
- A new approach to learning and interacting while we develop our faith...
- Welcome to the online study of the New Testament, sponsored by Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, Illinois, but open to anyone to participate. The guideline for this is simple - there are 260 chapters in the New Testament, one for every weekday in a calendar year. This page lists a bible chapter to read, and questions to ponder, for each weekday. The books aren't studied in the order they appear in the Bible. You can share your answers or thoughts by commenting to each day's post. To start from the beginning, look for "Mark 1 - August 18" in the Blog Archive below.
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I think my favorite is the healing of the demon-possessed man, because he was completely and utterly taken by his "illness." He was an outcast, feared, left to the torment of the demons while he lived in the tombs outside the city. Jesus showed the man mercy and compassion when no one else would even think of approaching him anymore. And then Jesus freed him to go spread the word of that mercy and compassion. Of these 3, this is the story that moves me the most because of the magnitude of torment that the man was in and the healing that took place, assumably without his asking for it. (the demons were in charge of his words and actions I guess) It gives me hope that because Jesus does know me and love me that when I am in need and can not for whatever reason ask for help, he still helps me. He sees my need and cares enough to heal.
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