By Michael C. Mack 1. Who is the most generous person you’ve ever known? What makes the person so generous? Read Matthew 23:2-12; Mark 12:38-44. 2. Come up with as many contrasts as you can between the religious leaders and the widow. Consider their dress, titles, how they were treated, how they may have prayed, […]
The power of the pulpit–Mark 12-14
By David Faust Preaching holds such an honored role in church history that the pulpit has been called “the sacred desk.” The word pulpit, however, rarely appears in the Bible. (The King James Version of Nehemiah 8:4 says Ezra “stood upon a pulpit of wood,” but the New International Version translates it “a high […]