Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer Archiv
245 Episoden
47 Minuten
How do we keep from becoming "pharisees"? In a time when deconstruction is the cultural tide we swim in and disillusionment with pastors is widespread and well-earned, how do we model the way of Jesus? John Mark looks at Jesus's critique of the pharisees in Matthew 23, and explores what it means for us: how we live our lives and relate to our leaders in the church.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 23
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 23
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47 Minuten
What is life about? John Mark teaches on Jesus's teaching on the two greatest commandments in the Old Testament: to love God and to love our neighbor. He challenges us to examine how we can arrange our lives in such a way that love of God and neighbor is our natural response.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 22v34-40
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 22v34-40
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46 Minuten
Is marriage a contract, or a covenant? Is the love that lasts a lifetime a fiery passion of desire, or something else? Is divorce a necessary evil to “be true to yourself,” or a rupture of a deep union? Jesus’ teaching on divorce is based in his vision of marriage, which is as radical today as it was nearly two thousand years ago.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 19v1-10
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 19v1-10
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40 Minuten
What do we do when other followers of Jesus fall into sin and wander away? John Mark explores Jesus’ teaching on dealing with sin in the church. Even though it's one of the most abused teachings of Jesus, John Mark show that, rightly applied, it has the potential to help the church become everything it's called to be.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 18v10-20
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 18v10-20
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39 Minuten
Jesus’ call for his apprentices to become like children is one of his most misunderstood teachings. John Mark explores the cultural background to Jesus’ words and argues that living like a child -- dependent, humble, and servant-hearted -- is the the key to greatness in Jesus' Kingdom.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 18v1-9
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 18v1-9
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44 Minuten
At the fulcrum point in Matthew’s gospel, Jesus goes up on a high mountain where he is transfigured before his apprentices. Over their fear, the apprentices hear a voice from heaven saying, “listen to him!” Thousands of years later, in our own fears, the call to find a mountain and listen to Jesus is greater than ever.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v28-17v13
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v28-17v13
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54 Minuten
What if control is actually an illusion? What if yielding is actually the path to freedom and joy? John Mark explores Jesus' call to deny your self and take up your cross and follow Him. In a culture of hedonism, digital instant gratification, and postmodern propaganda, this call sounds bizarre. But in yielding control to God in trusting love, we enter the Kingdom.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v21-27
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v21-27
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53 Minuten
"How you answer the question, 'who do you say I am,' will define you."
John Mark explores Simon Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ. He shows us that in seeing Jesus rightly, we move from fear to faith.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v13-20
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John Mark explores Simon Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ. He shows us that in seeing Jesus rightly, we move from fear to faith.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 16v13-20
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52 Minuten
In this well known, but often missed-out-on story of Jesus walking on the water, we notice the writer Matthew’s key insights from Jesus’ life and teaching about becoming a “non-anxious presence” in a world caught in a vicious cycle of anxiety. We have faith and release control.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 14v22-36
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 14v22-36
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48 Minuten
Jesus warns and encourages his disciples about what will come as they live into his Kingdom mission. What would it look like to live as a disciple, free of all fear, fully alive to his power?
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 11v1-15
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 11v1-15
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52 Minuten
What do we do the Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus ends his manifesto of life in the kingdom of the heavens, not with a pep talk or feel-good story, but with a warning about what happens when we don’t put his teachings into practice. John Mark argues that, in the “information” age, where things go in one ear and out the other, we need to be diligent to do what Jesus taught.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v24-29
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v24-29
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49 Minuten
With so many voices claiming to be the truth, how do we discern what is from God and what isn't? John Mark examine's Jesus's warning to beware false prophets in the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus's three "tests" for who to believe.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v15-23
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v15-23
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41 Minuten
We all know the Golden Rule, but do we actually live by it? John Mark teaches on how this summary of the teachings of the Bible was familiar during the time of Jesus, but how Jesus makes it even more radical and powerful. He concludes by challenging us to actually try living by this rule and doing to others what we would have them do to us.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v12
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 7v12
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50 Minuten
Are you tired of trying to earn other's approval? John Mark looks at the first of Jesus's teachings of practicing righteousness before others to be noticed by them in Matthew chapter six. He encourages us to break free from the bondage of seeking the approval (or disapproval) of others by doing good works in secret in order to be rewarded not by others, but by our Father in Heaven.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 6v1-4
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 6v1-4
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52 Minuten
Is it practical to love our enemy? John Mark exegetes from Jesus's final teaching in Matthew chapter five on enemy love. He challenges us to take this teaching seriously by showing historical and personal examples of Jesus's way bearing fruit, and encourages us to lean into our questions about this teaching with honestly before God and our communities.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 5v43-48
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Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 5v43-48
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