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Friday April 15, 2022
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Discussing the events of Friday Mark 15:33-39 (NRSV)
NOTE :- The entire passage for Friday is Mark 15:1-47 33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land[h] until three in the afternoon. 34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”[i] 35 When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah.” 36 And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” 37 Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. 38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39 Now when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he[j] breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!” |
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Thursday April 14, 2022
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Discussing the events of Thursday Mark 14:51-52 (NRSV)
NOTE :- The entire passage for Thursday is Mark 14:12-72 51 A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth. They caught hold of him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked. |
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Wednesday April 13, 2022
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Discussing the events of Wednesday Mark 14:1-11 (NRSV)
14 It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him; 2 for they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.” 3 While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head. 4 But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way? 5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the good news[d] is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.” 10 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 11 When they heard it, they were greatly pleased, and promised to give him money. So he began to look for an opportunity to betray him. |
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Tuesday April 12, 2022
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Discussion on Tuesday's events from Mark 12:28-34 (NRSV)
NOTE :- The entire passage for Tuesday is Mark 11:20 - 13:37 28 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 Then the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that ‘he is one, and besides him there is no other’; 33 and ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that no one dared to ask him any question. |
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Monday April 11, 2022
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Discussion on Monday's events from Mark 11:12-19 (NRSV)
12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. 15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; 16 and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” 18 And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. 19 And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city. |
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April 6, 2022
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Our 6th discussion is on Isaiah 43:18-19a (NRSV)
Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? |
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When have YOU received a second chance? Let's discuss it!
March 30, 2022
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Our 5th discussion is on Isaiah 62:10b (NIV)
Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations. |
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How would YOU make the world better? Let's talk about it!
March 23, 2022
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Our 4th discussion is on Isaiah 44:4 (NRSV)
[Your descendants] shall spring up like a green tamarisk, like willows by flowing streams. |
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Spring is a time of new beginnings. What is YOUR hope? Let's discuss it.
March 16, 2022
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Our 3rd discussion is on Isaiah 45:2 (NRSV):
I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. |
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Who are the people that shaped YOUR life? Let's discuss it on our board!
March 9, 2022
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Our 2nd discussion is on Isaiah 64:7 (NRSV):
There is no one who calls on your name, or attempts to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity. |
Pastor Dave talks on this passage in this video:
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March 2, 2022
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Our first discussion is on Isaiah 59:12b-13 (NRSV):
Our transgressions indeed are with us, and we know our iniquities: transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart. |
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