The Provoked Apologist

Scripture: Mark 1:14-15 "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, ad saying, “the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel”” Do you recall John the Baptist? The one that opened up the gospel of Mark? He had now served his purpose. Now, the nature of Mark's gospel is shown evidently here. Mark's aim was to give testimony of Jesus Christ in the fewest words possible. Here we see 3 things regarding the start of Christ's ministry.  John the Baptist had served his purpose There has been this resurgence in the church today, and I don’t think it’s for the better. We find more so today than before, people that preach a message that indicates that we must check some boxes on the “I can go to heaven if” list. For the sake of illustration, let’s look at the ministry of John the Baptist. His concern was never with “how much more can I do,” rather it was “this is all I must do.” For J...

Scripture: Mark 1:12-13 "The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him” This past week, I have been reflecting and thinking about being called into vocational ministry. From about 20 years old, I knew that I was going to be a pastor. At other points in my life, I had wanted to be a teacher in some capacity. I remember at one point that I wanted to be a gym teacher (but who doesn’t contemplate that at some point). I thought that it would be a great experience to work with teenagers and point them in the right direction (or something like that). Little did I realize that I would wind up pointing not only kids in the right direction but parents too. This isn’t something that is based around teaching good morals, if Christianity were to teach you about morals and how to live a good life, we would be a dead religion. Christianit...