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Mark 8: Who Do You Say He Is? | Mark 8 brings us to the heart of the gospel and the core of Christianity. The disciples have been tagging along with Jesus for some time now, but chapter 8 is decision time. Time to answer: Who is Jesus? And what does it mean to follow him?

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 8 Themes: Who is Jesus? Discipleship, follow decision, Messiah, Son of God, who Jesus is.

Mark 8 Tags: Peter’s proclamation, Son of Man, Jesus predicts the cross, death, prophecies of the crucifixion, Isaiah 53 “He was pierced”, “They will look on Me the one they have pierced”, Psalm 22, Peter rebukes Jesus, get behind me Satan, Muslim Jesus, Jewish Jesus, Hindu Jesus, Buddhist Jesus.

Key Verses: Mark 8:27 “Who do people say I am?” Mark 8:29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Mark 8:34 “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8:36 “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” Mark 8:37 “Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”

Quotes: “To Jesus, your soul was worth dying for. What is it worth to you?” “There’s a big difference between believing in marriage, and being married. And there’s a big difference between believing something about Jesus, and following Jesus. The difference is commitment, sacrifice. In short, the difference is your life.”

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Bible Quotes: The Holy Bible New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Mark 7: Dirty Is a Heart Issue | In Mark 7, some judgmental religious leaders provide a poignant lesson in the fine art of missing the point. Yet Jesus brings us back to the heart of the matter, and teaches us that clean and unclean are ultimately a matter of the heart.

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 7 Themes: Heart, clean, unclean, unwashed hands, Pharisees, judgmental, legalism, hypocrite, hypocrisy, tradition.

Mark 7 Tags: Self-righteous, finding fault, hygiene, germs, lip service, worship in vain, corban, honor father and mother, Bible teaching, teacher, defile, music, movies, media, guard your heart, kosher, food.

Key Verses: Mark 7:6 “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Mark 7:15 “Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” Mark 7:20 “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.” Ezekiel 36:26 “I will give you a new heart.”

Quotes: “Some people take pride in what they do. Others take pride in finding what’s wrong with what everyone else does.”

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Bible Quotes: The Holy Bible New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Mark 6: Sent Out | Following Jesus was never meant to be a spectator sport, and in Mark 6, the disciples get into the game. Kris Langham guides us through the story as Jesus calls the twelve together and sends them out with authority.

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 6 Themes: Sent out, called, calling, twelve disciples, ministry, feeding the 5000, compassion.

Mark 6 Tags: Jesus’ instructions, dust off your feet, do not take a purse, Jesus sent them in twos, authority, Great Commission, follow Jesus, discipleship, rest, like sheep without a shepherd, five loaves and two fish.

Key Verses: Mark 6:7 “Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits.”Mark 6:37 “You give them something to eat.”

Quotes: “Ministry was never meant to be a spectator sport. Neither is church, and neither is Bible reading. You’re in training.” “You’re not invited to join an institution, you’re called to a movement.” “Understand that following God is an adventure, and the directions are not always the same. Mission is not a formula or a recipe. It is following Jesus, and being sent by Jesus. Before you go, hear from Jesus.” “Ministry is a call - to do something - that you - cannot do. You don’t have the money, you don’t have the time, you don’t have the skills. But Jesus said, ‘Go.’” “I do not have the time nor the resources that are necessary to be the pastor that I want to be… so I am determined to have the faith.”

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Bible Quotes: The Holy Bible New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Mark 5: Reason to Hope | When do you give up? In Mark 5, we encounter three poor souls, and each one long past hope. Then Jesus shows up. Kris Langham guides us through Mark 5 and shares some personal stories of hope for the hopeless.

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 5 Themes: Hope, hopeless, healing, demon possession, compassion.

Mark 5 Tags: Difference between demon possession and mental illness, man living in tombs, Legion, Zach Martinez, when do you give up hope? Jesus cast the demons into the pigs, woman bleeding for twelve years, dead daughter, Jesus raises the dead, reason to hope.

Key Verses: “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” Revelation 21:4 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Quotes: “Hope is amazing. Hope is like a shot of adrenaline for your soul. Hope can get me through anything. And Lord knows we all have those days when we need some hope.”

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Bible Quotes: The Holy Bible New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Mark 4: Careful How You Hear | Kris Langham guides us through the Parable of the Sower - Jesus' story about dirt, seeds, and how we listen. It's an intriguing parable that will help us answer two essential questions: What is the Bible and why should we read it?

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 4 Themes: Faith, Bible, word of God, why read the Bible, listen, hear, bearing fruit

Mark 4 Tags: Parable of the sower, Lamp on a stand, parable of the mustard seed, Jesus calms the storm, seed, seeds, parables, rocky soil, thorns, good dirt, ears to hear, bear fruit, farmer, sower, scripture, Jesus asleep in the boat, Jesus calms the storm

Key Verses: Mark 4:14 “The farmer sows the word.” Mark 4:20 “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

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Mark 3: The A-Team | Jesus is amazing on his own, yet from the beginning he chose to work through others. In Mark 3, Jesus appoints his twelve apostles, and we learn some powerful lessons about how Jesus still works through us.

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 3 Themes: 12 apostles, disciples, ministry, calling, follow Jesus, ministry.

Mark 3 Tags: Appointed, called, 12 disciples, what’s the difference apostle vs. disciple, God uses ordinary people, church history, Christian heroes.

Key Verses: Mark 3:14-15 “He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.”

Quotes: “Jesus was never a one Man show. He was all about others, and about teaching those others—to also be—all about others.”

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Bible Quotes: The Holy Bible New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Mark 2: So That You May Know | Jesus made some big claims—big enough to get him killed. But a claim is just words. Did Jesus prove it? Mark 2 opens the challenging question of just who Jesus claimed to be.

Journey 1 | Start. Here in our first journey, we'll follow Jesus' footsteps through Mark's gospel, then learn what it means to follow Jesus today in the book of Colossians. (24 Days)

Teacher: Kris Langham

About TTW: When the Bible is confusing, Through the Word explains it with clear and concise audio guides for every chapter. The TTW Podcast follows 19 Journeys covering every book and chapter in the Bible. Each journey is an epic adventure through several Bible books, as your favorite pastors explain each chapter with clear explanation and insightful application. Understand the Bible in just ten minutes a day, and join us for all 19 Journeys on the TTW podcast or TTW app!

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Mark 2 Themes: Who is Jesus?, faith, healing, forgive sins, Jesus’ authority, God loves sinners.

Mark 2 Tags: Did Jesus claim to be God? Is Jesus God? Jesus heals the paralyzed man, forgiven, man lowered on a mat, blasphemy, Son of Man, Jesus saw their faith, faith and miracles, Levi, Matthew, tax collector, Jesus came for sinners.

Key Verses: Mark 2:9 “Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?” Mark 2:10 “the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” Mark 2:17 Jesus said to them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.’”

Quotes: “Remember that sin is not yours to forgive. You don’t have that authority—only God does. And if Jesus calls you forgiven—because He paid the price—it is done. Your place is to accept the truth.” “Miracles don’t produce faith, but faith does produce miracles”

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Bible Quotes: The Holy Bible New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.