This week we are looking at Mark 10:17-31, which is all about the rich young ruler. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application question to help us with our time together

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiCTs4OFaxA

Service starts at 10 minutes 20 seconds
Reading starts at 25 minutes 10 seconds
Sermon starts at 27 minutes 45 seconds

Mark 10:17-31 Outline

Setting
8:31, 8:34, 9:31
 
1. False following v17 
What might Jesus spot in us that is false about our following of him?
 
2. A faithful King v18-22 
 
How different is my understanding of keeping the 10 commandments different from Jesus understanding?
 
For the man in the passage wealth was his issue, what might be your issue that gets in the way of Jesus being Lord of everything?
 
 3. Freedom miracle v23-31 
If we are finding it hard to give up something like this rich young man, who should we go to for help? What can we expect according to v27?
 
If we give up everything to follow Jesus what two additional things can we expect back in v30?

This week we are looking at Mark 10:1-16, which is all about marriage and being dependent on the Lord as a child. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application question to help us with our time together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMJXORVo2g

Reading starts at 17 minutes 40 seconds
Sermon starts at 19 minutes 50 seconds​

This week we are looking at Mark 9:33-50, which is all about Christian tolerance and intolerance. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application question to help us with our time together which will also be printed out for you at church along with the relevant bible reading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qrsbiGGEo

Mark 9:33-30 Outline
1. Setting

8:31, 8:34, 9:31

2. Christian Tolerance with a wide fellowship v33-41

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose” Jim Elliot age 29

Do we have an unconscious bias towards different people?

How might we be generous towards anyone who comes in the name of Jesus?

3. Christian intolerance with a narrow application to the believer v42-50

“My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness” Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Personal review for yourself – ‘Is there anything private or public in my life that would bring dishonour to the church family?’

This week we are looking at Mark 9:14-32, which is all about learning to have a dependence on the Lord. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application question to help us with our time together 
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​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimzjSHuPzc

Mark 9:14-32 Outline
1. The serious problem of the father

How would you feel to be in the father’s situation here?

Is life just a physical battle, what might be the spiritual battles of life?

2. The dead end option for the father
• Himself
• Other people
• Disciples
• Uncertain

Calvin said, ‘Strong faith is very rare, most people have a little faith.’

Do you sympathise with the father in v24?

What is so encouraging about Jesus here?

3. Faith in Jesus is the only option

What and how is the object of your faith? 
How can you help people have faith?
In v7 God said something important, how might it help us with the content of what Jesus encourages v29?

Mark 9:1-13 outline
1. A loving Preview
Do we sometimes kid ourselves into thinking if we follow Jesus everything will go well?
Do you think the preview Jesus gave to the three disciples was helpful?
 
2. A Packed Preview
6 days
Peter, James, John
Mountain
Glory state
Moses and Elijah
What verses do you focus your eyes on? How can you more and more?
2 Peter 1:16-19
 
3. A demanding Preview
 
If John Baptist suffered what must we expect for Jesus?….and ourselves?
Is the Christian life costly? Who should we go to if suffering gets too much?

Dear Church family,

This week we are looking at Mark 8:31-9:1, which is all about the mission of Jesus going the way of suffering and the cross. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application question to help us with our time together which will also be printed out for you at church. 

Here is the link to today's service - I am sorry the live link didnt work and the upload took longer than expected and picture view is limited. 

With best wishes

Rupert Mackay

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HODDwANWggw

Mark 8:31-9:1 outline
 
Introduction
 
Chapters 1 to 8 Who is Jesus?   Chapters 8 to 16 Why did Jesus come?
 
8:31, also  9:31, ‘He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”
10:33-34, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.”
 
The cross of salvation v31-33
 
 
How might we think along with what Peter said to Jesus in v31?
 
10:45 ‘For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve , and to give his life as a ransom for many.’
 
 
1 Peter 3:18, Peter wrote, ‘For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.’
 
What things might we want to add to the work of Jesus on the cross for us?
 
The cross of discipleship v34-9:1
 
v35

• The right hands for your soul…

 
v36-37

• The right mind set…

 
v38

• The right nerves…

 
Whose hands, mind set and nerve will we trust in? How might we apply these things?
 
Prayer - have you prayed it?
Dear Father God, I know that I am not worthy to be accepted by you. I don’t deserve your gift of eternal life. I am guilty of rebelling against you and ignoring you. I need forgiveness. Thank you for sending your son to die for me that I may be forgiven. Thank you that he rose from the dead to give me new life. Please forgive me and change me, that I may live with Jesus as my ruler. In Jesus name, Amen
(prayer from 2 ways to live)
Confession
 
Most merciful God,
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
we confess that we have sinned in thought, word and deed.
We have not loved you with our whole heart.
We have not loved our neighbours as ourselves.
In your mercy forgive what we have been,
help us to amend what we are, and direct what we shall be;
that we may do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with you, our God.
May the Father of all mercies cleans us form our sins
and restore us in his image to the praise and glory of his name,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Amen.
 
Assurance : 1 John 1:8-9
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
 
Mark 8:31 to 9:1
 
31 Jesus then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
 
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life[b] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
 
And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

Dear Church family,

This week we are looking at Mark 8:22-30, which is all about how Jesus opens our eyes to his identity. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application questions to help us in our time together. This week, Kirsty leads us in prayer with Rebecca singing along with Alison playing.  
https://youtu.be/fN-p1SnTFAQ
Rupert

Mark 8:22-30 Outline 
 
Introduction: “no one understood the significance of who was in their midst”
Mark’s gospel so far: the disciples do not understand the significance of who is in their midst

• Highlighted by Jesus’ 5 questions: 8.17-18, 21

 
Only Jesus can open our eyes to who he is – it takes a miracle of spiritual sight

1. A physical healing: blindness to sight v22-26

Why does Mark include this healing at this moment in his gospel? Why is it a gradual healing?

2. A spiritual healing: blindness to sight v27-30

• What are some of the answers your family, friends, colleagues and neighbours would say to Jesus’ question in v27? How can we help them to think about Jesus?
• How is Peter (and therefore the disciples) like the blind man?
• How has your answer to Jesus’ question: “Who do you say I am?” developed during lockdown as we have looked at Mark’s gospel? In what ways do our lives show that Jesus is our King?
• How can we see Jesus more clearly? How is our journey from blindness to sight not yet complete?

Mark 7:31-8:21 outline
 
What do you think is so tragic about not being able to hear?

1. Need for Jesus
v32 - Isaiah 35:5
Do you find it hard to agree with Jesus more important agenda?
Why are miracles not Jesus priority?

2. Two kinds of deafness
(helpless and deliberate)
Why do you think Mark has placed this account of this deaf and dumb man here?
What is responsible for our slowness to respond to Jesus?

3. Need to listen carefully
Can you understand God’s divine sovereignty and our responsibility?
As I make an effort to hear God’s word who is also giving understanding?
How can we encourage a habit of listening carefully to God’s word?

Dear Church family,

This week we are looking at Mark 7:14-30.  I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application questions to help us in our time together. This week, Roshan gives us the reading, and Alison leads us in prayers followed by a hymn.
https://youtu.be/LfDq1na7LLA
Rupert

Mark 7:14- 30 outline
1. How do you assess yourself?

Man made laws and traditions are out, but sin comes from the heart

2. Why are food laws unimportant according to Jesus?
3. But what is more of a serious problem according to Jesus? v15, v20-23 4.
4. Do you think what Jesus is saying about sin is realistic? Why does the world not think this way?
5. Can you spot the two natures living within you which Romans 7:21-25 also highlights?

• “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!” Romans 7:21-25

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6. In v24-30 what can we learn from the Syrophoenician woman?

• Prayer of humble access in the Common Book of Prayer
• “We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.”

7. Can you spot this woman being written into this prayer?
8. Where should I take my heart for treatment? What might I expect? What do you fear?

Dear Church family,

This week we are looking at Mark 7:1-13. I attach a handout to help you focus on the meeting along with some application questions to help us in our time together. This week, Mike Daisley gives us the reading, and John Hall leads us in prayers followed by Alison playing.
https://youtu.be/HNFxas3mCpM

Rupert

Mark 7:1-13 Outline
What do you think is the problem with the world?

1. What is it that the enemies of Jesus want?

What does Jesus tell them four times?
v7, 8, 9, 13
What does this all mean to us?
How might we think we please God?
What builds bridges within Christian communities?
What religious rules or traditions might we have to louse?

2. What is that Jesus wants?

​Do you think Jesus is argumentative?
What is the only way of getting into God’s good books?

Jim Paker, ‘The saving power of the cross a not depend on faith being added to it; it’s saving power is such that faith flows from it.’

​Please please put your confidence and trust in the person of Jesus.

Prayer
Galatians 3:13, ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.’