We read Mark 7–8 and watch Jesus confront religious hypocrisy, redefine what makes a person unclean, and keep showing mercy to people on the margins. We also wrestle with His warning about being ashamed of His words and why our lives need to match the Bible we say we believe.
• Pharisees and law experts challenging unwashed hands and ritual tradition
• Jesus quoting Isaiah and exposing hearts far from God
• Redefining defilement as what comes out of the heart
• A Syrophoenician mother pushing forward with persistent faith
• Healing a deaf man and the unstoppable spread of the news
• Feeding four thousand and the disciples missing the point
• Pharisees demanding a sign and Jesus refusing to perform
• Warning about the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod
• Healing a blind man in stages and what it says about perception
• Peter confessing Jesus as the Christ and the shock of the suffering Messiah
• Denying self, taking up the cross, and Mark 8:38 as a sober warning
• Refusing to apologize for Scripture and choosing integrity instead
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