Reflection Questions

1. What is the meaning of marriage?
2. How can we be salt (being a witness to others through your holiness) in your marriage based on the way Jesus views marriage in Mark 10:1-12?
3. AT HOME: What does Jesus teach us and model about dealing with tough questions in the Bible in Mark 10:3-9? How can that be beneficial and motivational to your own devotional life?

Reflection Questions

1. What is something that stuck out to you from this passage on greatness or holiness that you can apply to your life this upcoming year? 
2. Jesus mentioned hell multiple times in Mark 9:43-48. How does a biblical understanding of hell help us understand the importance of salt in Mark 9:49-50? 
3. AT HOME: Talk with your spouse about your definitions of greatness and holiness… How would you redefine those definitions in light of Mark 9:30-50? How can you pursue those this year?

Reflection Questions

1. What are ways we can encourage others (and even ourselves) to be like the crowd in Mark 9:15
   • To see Jesus
   • To be amazed at Jesus
   • To run to Jesus
   • To welcome Jesus into every aspect of our lives
2. What is Jesus teaching us in Mark 9:23 about hopelessness and faith? How are the two correlated? (Mark 9:29 could be helpful)
3. BONUS/DISCUSS ON THE WAY HOME: How is prayer an effective weapon for spiritual warfare? How should that affect the way we approach prayer?

Reflection Question

1.  What did this passage teach you about being a christian, a follower of Christ? 

2. Two rebukes happen in this passage in Mark 8:33 and Mark 9:7, and both rebukes point us back to Mark 8:34-38. What is Jesus/God trying to teach us? What is the application for your own life?

Reflection Questions

1. What is Jesus teaching his disciples and you about sanctification from Mark 8:1-26?
2. How do you see yourself in the disciples as they are portrayed in Mark 8:1-26?
3. BONUS: What is the warning in Mark 8:15?
4. BONUS: Jesus asks a series of questions in Mark 8:17-21. What can we learn from this regarding relationships, discipling others, and our devotional lives?

Reflection Questions

1. Compare and contrast these two stories
2. How does the commentary of Jesus declaring all food clean (Mark 7:19) tie into what Mark shows us in Mark 7:23-37? (The context of Acts 10 might be helpful)
3. What is Mark trying to teach us in this passage through the two stories and the continual use of repeated phrases throughout Mark?
4. BONUS: How do these two stories tie back to Mark 7:1-23?
5. BONUS: What does Mark 7 teach us about evangelism?

Reflection Questions

1. What is Mark teaching us about being a disciple in Mark 6:31-44?
2. How does Mark remind us, through Jesus’ example, of the importance of spending time with the Lord in our devotional lives in Mark 6:31-44?
3. How is Mark 6:45-52 comforting to you? Knowing that God sees you and reveals His glory to you during difficult situations?
4. BONUS: How does Mark 6:53-56 help to summarize Mark 4-6?
5. BONUS: How is reflecting on Mark 6:51-52 impactful for thinking about spiritual goals for 2024?

Reflection Questions

1. After today’s passage, how would you define discipleship or being a disciple?
2. What is the cost of discipleship? Does that cost scare you or embolden you?
3. Regarding the sandwich technique in today’s passage… what is the main point of Mark 6:14-29? How does that tie back to Mark 6:7-13,30?
4. Compare John the Baptist and Jesus…. Contrast John the Baptist and Herod

Reflection Questions

1. Compare Jairus and the woman… what is similar about those stories in this section?
2. Compare the woman and Jairus’ daughter… what is similar about their situations and interactions with Jesus?
3. What is the main theme/point of the woman being healed?
4. How does the woman being healed tie into the story of Jairus?
5. BONUS: How do these two stories tie back into Mark 4:1-5:20?
6. BONUS: What has Mark been teaching us about the characteristics of people who are in good soil (Mark 4:20) from Mark 4:21-5:43?

Reflection Questions

1. Mark uses the word “afraid” in Mark 4:35-41 and Mark 5:1-20 to describe reactions to Jesus. How do both of these passages help to understand who Jesus is? 
2. What does Mark 4:35-41 teach us about how Jesus teaches and builds us up? How have you seen that in your own life? 
3. 2 Cor 5:20 says we are to be ambassadors for Christ, which is exactly what Jesus charges the formerly demon-possessed man to do. How does Mark 5:18-20 encourage you to be an ambassador for Christ? Do you see yourself in this man? 
4. (BONUS) What are some of the [many] ways Mark 5:1-20 ties back to the parable of the sower passages in Mark 4:1-34? 
5. (BONUS) Why would the title “Jesus calms the storms of life” be an inadequate way of describing Mark 4:35-41?