(33 Messages about how Christ Rules Then and Now, from the Gospel of Mark)
| ID | Series Title | Title | Scripture Reference | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 741 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 1) So I Am Somebody! | Mark 1:1-11 | Focus: Because Christ Rules! I am Somebody. Because of Jesus' identity, I have an identity. |
| 742 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 2) So I Am Acceptable! | Mark 1:7-11 | Focus: Because Christ Rules! I am Somebody. Because of Jesus' identity, I have an identity. Jesus made me acceptable to God |
| 745 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 3) So I Can Stand Strong! | Mark 1:11-13 | Focus: Because Christ Rules! I am Somebody. Because of Jesus’ identity, I have an identity. It is my identity in Christ that gives me power over temptation. |
| 748 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 4) The Hidden Key to Control Your Time and Your Life | Mark 1:35 | Focus: Christ led a very busy life during his public ministry. He never neglected what was important, to do what was urgent. He demonstrated how to do this, giving us the hidden key to a life of significance. |
| 749 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 5) So What Keeps You From Forgiveness!? | Mark 2:1-12 | Focus: Many obstacles were in the way of the paralytic who wanted to come to Jesus. He came anyway and found in Jesus more than he expected--forgiveness and wholeness. |
| 750 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 6) A Brother Bigger than the Bully | Mark 3 | Focus: Many things in life bully us. But Christ is my brother and is bigger than any bully. Christ bound the bully, unbound me, and set me free to enjoy life as it is meant to be! |
| 751 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (Part 7) The Mystery of His Kingdom | Mark 4:1-23 | Focus: The Mystery of Christ’s Kingdom is that it is a hidden Kingdom, hidden from all but those who respond to the King. The quality of your response determines the quality of your personal growth, and the growth of His Kingdom through you. |
| 752 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (8) Peace, Be Still! | Mark 4:35-5:20 | Focus: Jesus is the sovereign ruler who is able to conquer hostile powers. He has power over wind and sea (Mark 4:35-41), demons and death (5:1-43). Consequently he has the power to restore peace to our lives. Step into the presence of the Lord of Life and Peace. |
| 753 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (9) Breaking the Chains that Bind Us | Mark 5:1-20 | Focus: Jesus dared to invade and claim the enemy’s turf. Satan will contest every square inch of Christ’s expanding reign, but Christ who is superior is able to break all the chains that bind us. |
| 754 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (10) Where Do You Turn When Hope Dries Up? | Mark 5:21-43 | Focus: All hope was drying up for a woman that no physician could cure, and for a man with a dying daughter. In desperation they turned to Jesus and discovered that when faith connects with Jesus there is no hopeless situation. |
| 755 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (11) Christ Rules--Herod Drools | Mark 6:1-32 | Focus: The successful mission of the twelve disciples is set against the ominous backdrop of opposition, rejection, and even martyrdom. Jesus asks us to follow him on an urgent and dangerous mission. |
| 756 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (12) Christ Rules When There's Not Enough | Mark 6:31-44 | Focus: When there is not enough, it is difficult to think about helping others. When we are stressed financially, it is difficult to think about giving. That is exactly what the disciples thought when Jesus had compassion on a hungry crowd. |
| 765 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (13) O, Faint of Heart, Take Heart | Mark 6:45-56 | Focus: Christ Rules even when we are too dense to see it at the time. O, Faint of heart, take heart, as you come to see what the disciples at first missed, the true significance of Jesus walking on the water. |
| 766 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (14) Christ Rules From Within | Mark 7:1-23 | Focus: Where holiness is viewed as an achievable moral excellence, man-made rules and definitions are elaborately applied. Jesus dismissed every such man made effort by identifying a fatal flaw. Evil comes from inside and makes a man unclean. Where an internal engine overhaul is required, a car wash won't do. |
| 767 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (15) Not A Crumb Is Wasted | Mark 7:24-30 | Focus: The proud love to be accompanied by the best - the gourmet meal, the VIP treatment. Leftovers would be an insult. On the other hand, humble starving souls long for crumbs off the table, or under the table. Not a crumb is wasted on the humble. Humility is prerequisite for receiving benefits from Christ. |
| 768 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (16) Show & Tell,,,To The Deaf & Blind | Mark 7:31-8:33 | Focus: Jesus clears the ears of the spiritually deaf, and opens the eyes of the spiritually blind. He demonstrated he could do this first with the physically deaf and blind, then slowly he got through to the spiritually deaf and blind. |
| 769 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (17) At Cross-Purposes | Mark 8:27-38 | Focus: Peter found himself at cross-purposes with Jesus, living for the things of men rather than the things of God. Peter was shocked to learn that the "things of God" included the scandal of the cross, and on purpose. It is better to take up the cross than to be at cross-purposes with God. |
| 771 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (18) From His Transfiguration to Ours! | Mark 9:1-13 | Focus: Jesus popped the bubble of the disciples’ glorious vision, but he replaced it with a better one. The mountaintop transfiguration of Jesus is a revelation that helps us in the cross bearing valley below to anticipate and experience the glory of our own transfiguration. |
| 772 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules! (19) Those Straining to Believe | Mark 9:14-29 | Focus: When you make enough deposits, you have sufficient funds to use; this is true for financial as well as faith deposits. The disciples discovered that they were overdrawn, what they attempted required more than they had deposited. They were humbled by the publicity of insufficient faith. |
| 773 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules (20) The Whole Equation | Mark 9:30-50 | Focus: Jesus explained life's whole equation. This life is only part of the equation. On the other side of the equation is the afterlife. What happens here and now can affect the then and there forever. |
| 775 | Christ Rules! | Let Christ Rule Your Marriage | Mark 10:1-16 | Focus: Jesus confronts those looking for legal loopholes to justify their own hard heartedness as it relates to the question of divorce. Don’t look for what you can get away with, look for what you can do to make your marriage last. |
| 776 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules When the Hump Doesn't Fit | Mark 10:17-31 | Focus: A rich man asked Jesus the most important question, "What must I do to get to heaven?" Today we learn why it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. |
| 777 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules the Road | Mark 10:32-52 | Focus: Christ Rules the Road because he had a flawless navigational system. He was born with a purpose and unswervingly plotted the course that accomplished that purpose. For the disoriented world, Christ IS the unerring navigational system charting the correct course to an eternal relationship with God. |
| 778 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules the Fig and Faith Franchises | Mark 11 | Focus: The commercialization of God's good news can distract us from the good news. When Jesus looks at the way we celebrate God's good news at Christmas, or in any season or in any given day, does He see a fruitful faith or does He need to do some house cleaning? |
| 783 | Christ Rules! | When God Seems Absent | Mark 11:27-12:12 | Focus: The starting point for experiencing God's presence is the acknowledgement of the authority of Jesus Christ. Many people live life as if God were absent, by ruling their own lives and calling their own shots, attempting to retain their own independent authority. Even then, God will only seem to be absent. |
| 784 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules Over Cynics & Skeptics | Mark 12:13-44 | Jesus faced the skeptic's challenge with authority, confidence, and effectiveness. By following Jesus' example we can also face the skeptic or cynic with confidence. |
| 785 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules History's Delivery Room | Mark 13 | Jesus compared the travail of history between his first and second coming with the pain associated with the birth process. Though things get worse and worse just before delivery, Jesus assures us that things are not hopeless. The deliverance is certain, and the outcome good for those who watch for his coming. |
| 789 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules A Fully Devoted Disciple | Mark 14:1-11 | A fully devoted disciple seizes small opportunities to express love extravagantly. |
| 790 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules the Cup | Mark 14:12-36 | Only Christ could convert the cup of God's wrath into the cup of God's grace. |
| 791 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules His Trial and Mine | Mark 14:32-72 | Sometimes we fail miserably even though we are trying to follow Jesus, but if we let Him, God will make beautiful things out of the broken pieces of our failure. |
| 792 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules As My Substitute | Mark 15:1-20 | Christ knows everything about me, my ugly secret sins, my terrible failures, even my blatant raised fist of rebellion against Him, yet he reaches out to me, never giving up to claim me as His own. |
| 793 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules--Trust God in Times of Crisis | Mark 15:21-37 | Do you find it difficult to trust God through times of crisis? Even when it seems things are out of control, and it seems God is absent we can trust Him. |
| 794 | Christ Rules! | Christ Rules the Last Chapter of Every Story | Mark 15:38-16:7 | Have you ever received a very good thing wrapped in a very bad thing? Sometimes the best gifts come that way, and it isn't until the last chapter of the story that we understand God's plan. |
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