New Series - The Good King: A Study of the Gospel of Mark

The Gospel According to Mark proclaims the Good News (1:1) of the Good King who invites us into His Kingdom (1:15). The first half of the book reveals the authority and kingship of Jesus over nature (4:35-41, 6:40-52), disease (1:29-32 et al.), sin (2:5-7) and even spiritual forces (5:1-20 et al.). Then the second half of the book unveils the great paradoxical truth that this Good King is our Servant King coming to lay down His life as a ransom for us (8:31). The only one that has authority to save Himself doesn’t (15:30-32) so that those who can’t save themselves are saved. Yet this Good King who dies is still a Powerful King who conquers death and the grave (16:1-8) and, even now, is enthroned, ruling and reigning over His Kingdom (16:19) as our Good King.We’ll be walking through the book of Mark through the Fall and Spring leading up to Easter of 2014. I’d like to encourage you to grab the two Good Book Guides To Mark by Tim Chester for your own study and your Discipleship Group to complement the sermon series and our City Group gatherings. I believe it would be a great benefit to our whole body to be diving deep into the book of Mark together. Collectively we would be reading it, working through the study guides, listening to it preached, encouraging one another with it in our City Groups, applying it with our Discipleship Groups, friends, and family, and sharing it with those that don’t know Jesus.I pray that the Spirit would press the truth deep into our hearts and continue to transform us into the image of our Servant King. That we would be equipped to live on mission displaying and proclaiming the Good News of our Good King.The series begins on August 18th so I’d order the guides soon.:: On Amazon :: Mark 1-8 & Mark 9-16:: On the publisher’s site :: Mark 1-8 & Mark 9-16Use #ParadoxMark to share what you are learning on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.For further study and more information read a post from Pastor Ryan here.