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Join us on Saturday, July 22.   Lunch is served at 12 p.m. and first tee time is at 1:30 p.m. Macktown Golf Course, Rockton, Illinois.   Cost is 75 per person....

Join us as we cool off at the Magic Waters Waterpark!  We will meet there from 5 to 8 p.m. for fun in the sun and water.  $10.00 tickets after 3 p.m....

Week 5: READ: Mark 6:14-29 Show Time John the baptizer was in the line of the great Jewish prophets of the Old Testament.  As Mark 1 tells us, God sent John to get people ready for the coming of the LORD.  He was like a herald in the Roman Empire who came to announce the coming of...

Week 4: READ: Mark 6:1-13 Show Time Jesus returns to his hometown, though unnamed in Mark, identified as Nazareth in Luke and Matthew.   It was a small out of the way village of about 400 people in Jesus’ day located twelve miles southwest of the Sea of Galilee.  It was nothing compared to the Greek styled capital...

Week 3: READ: Mark 5:21-43 Show Time Jesus and the disciples cross the sea one more time in chapters 4-5.  The exact location along the shore of the Sea of Galilee is not given.  They departed from the gentile dominated southeast side and were met immediately by a Jewish leader as they went ashore.  This is a...

Week 2: READ: Mark 5:1-20 Show Time The story of the exorcising of the demons from a man in the gentile area called the Decapolis is the third scene of an act tied together by their location: on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (See Appendix 2).  In the first scene, Jesus gets into a boat...

Week 1: READ: Mark 4:35-41 Show Time I had an epiphany today.  Perhaps you have uttered those words.  By epiphany we mean we had a revelation, a new understanding, or an “aha” moment.  Oftentimes, these epiphanies are small fish in the sea of historic epiphanies. Take for example the four epiphanies in Mark’s gospel revealing the identity...

Week 5: READ: Mark 4:26-34 Show Time A parable is a teaching story that uses comparison to emphasize its point.  In the parable of the seed that grew secretly (vv. 26-28), this story compares the kingdom of God with the harvest.  The farmer who plants the seed has absolutely nothing more to do with the sprouting or...

Week 4: READ: Mark 4:1-20   Show Time Jesus taught people to see life through the lens as God intended life to be lived.  It is a life lived by faith in God and attentive to others.  Jesus taught by his words and actions.  One of his most common ways of teaching was using a format called a...

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