We come now to what St. Augustine considered to be the most challenging interpretive question in all of Scripture—What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?

Just as God gathered the twelve tribes around Sinai and later around the tabernacle, so Jesus gathers twelve men around Himself

The great irony and hypocrisy of the Pharisees is that they go to church to dig up dirt on God. They charge God with breaking the sabbath.

The forgiveness of sins is a greater miracle than healing the paralytic.

Mark is playing with this idea of what it means to seek someone. You could seek them like Saul seeks for David (to kill him), or you could seek them like Jesus seeks for God (because He loves Him)

America may be demon possessed, but Jesus is an able exorcist. Our nation may be lying sick with burning fever, but Jesus can raise her to life, and make her serve Him again.

When Jesus calls people to follow Him, He often does so at very inconvenient times.

When God wants to change you, He has to kill you first.

Jesus is the firmament through which we ascend to God.

The wilderness is where God prepares the church for conquest, and it is here that Mark’s gospel begins.