By Michael C. Mack 1. What is the biggest obstacle you’ve faced in your life? Have you overcome it? If so, how? Read Mark 16:1-8. 2. What obstacles, literal and figurative, did the women face throughout this narrative? 3. What faith do you see displayed in these women? (Though the women were afraid, they […]
Devotional thoughts on Mark 16:1-8 By Jonathan Underwood Many people long for a second chance—an opportunity to put their flawed past behind them. That’s what the gospel of grace is all about: putting our past behind us and achieving a new future. From the morning of the resurrection, we can see that God was putting […]
By David Faust In the first century, a cross usually drew a crowd. Onlookers gathered to stare and scoff. Some wept for the victim. Others were drawn by the same morbid curiosity that makes passersby gawk at a car accident or a tornado-ravaged town. A mob assembled on the night of Jesus’ trial and […]
