Getting back on track - meeting March 24

Hi everyone - well, the snow day interfered once again with our meeting - twice in a row!  Some of us met for dinner tonight (St. Patrick's Day) and agreed we'd like to schedule an "extra" meeting next week, March 24, to pick up where we left off on Bible Study.   Here's the new schedule, which should help us get into our Bible study  the way we hoped to before all the snow came!

Dinner at 7 - study starting around 8 - sometimes a little earlier, followed by prayers. We finish by 9.

Mach 24:       Reading:  Selections from Mark 4-7:  parables and challenges in Jesus' teaching and actions,  The disciples who don't "get it" in Mark's gospel. 

April  7:          Reading: Mark 8: 27-9:1   (Ch 7 in commentary):  "Who do you say that I am?

April 21:         Reading: Mark 15-16 (Ch 13 in commentary):  "What just happened?"  Three versions of the Easter Story in Mark 

May     5:         Reading:  Mark  11-12 (Ch 9 in commentary):  Caesar, God and the Temple -- how to live faithfully amid so many authority structures.  

                        

May  19:          Reading:  Mark 14:  (Ch 11 in commentary) Jesus' death as a clue to the meaning of the gospel. 

June 2:            Reading:  Mark 15-16    (Ch 12 and 13 in commentary) – Review and celebration, and looking ahead to next year. 

Other events in June TBD

Parables - and plans for the semester

Hi Everyone
Hoping you are planning to join us this Monday to continue our study of the Gospel of Mark.  We will continue the good conversation we started last time by looking especially at Mark 4: 1-20,  where Jesus tells the "parable of the sower."  This will be a great chance to talk about what parables are and where they take us when we read the Bible.  Also to explore this language about the "kingdom of God" and what that might mean for us, and how we might express it differently in our time.  And of course we can start with any questions you may be bringing about the gospel of Mark, or our approach to Bible Study, or really anything.

Here’s a list of what we’re going to be doing and when.   The commentary is the Journey Through the Bible commentary on Mark (available from me or here.  I still have a couple of copies available to lend or sell.   Dinner is at 7 and we try to start our study time around 7:45/8:00 and go 'til 9. 

March 3:          Reading:   Focus on Mark 4, esp. 1-20 (Ch 3 in commentary)

                     

March 17;       Reading:    Focus on Mark 6 esp. 6b-56  (Ch 5 in commentary)

                       

April  7:          Reading: Mark 8: 27-91   (Ch 7 in commentary)

                      

April 21:     (the day after Easter, so we’re skipping ahead to the Easter story &          doubling back)  Reading :  Mark 15:42-16:20  (Ch 13 in commentary)

                       

May     5:         Reading:  Mark  11: 1-12:24  (Ch 9 in commentary)

                       

May  19:       Reading:  Mark  14: 1-72  (Ch. 11 in commentary)

June 2:           Reading:  Mark 15-16    (Ch 12 and 13 in commentary) – Review and celebration, and looking ahead to next year. 

OTHER EVENTS IN JUNE TBD. . . . .