Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In season 2, Pastor Jim is leading us in a study of Mark. Today’s passage is Mark 8:1-21.
1. The compassion of Jesus v. 1-9
2. The questions of Jesus v. 5, 12, 17-21
3. The caution of Jesus v. 13-21
What is compassion? It is love on the move. It is love that must take action. The compassion of Jesus was the kind of love that was paying attention and aware enough to see a need and then it simply had to take action to meet that need.
“We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.”
– John Stott, Christian Mission in the Modern World
“If you give a man the gospel, wrap it in a sandwich. And if you give a man a sandwich, wrap it in the gospel.”
– C. H. Spurgeon
“Dullness, not doubt, is the strongest enemy of faith, just as indifference, not hate, is the strongest enemy of love.”
– Peter Kreeft
“The Bible has answers—but if we really let the Bible speak we may find that God will show us that we are not even asking the right questions.”
-Tim Keller
“There is a place for questions. There is a time for conversations. But there is also the possibility of certainty, not because we have dissected God like a freshman biology student dissects a frog, but because God has spoken to us clearly and intelligibly and has given us ears to hear His voice.”
– Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck, Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)
