Studies in the Gospel of Mark by Pastor Gene Pensiero of Calvary Hanford. In this series titled, "First Serve," we learn about how Christ was servant of all and His extravagant love for His people.
Hanford, California
The risen Lord gives His followers the Great Commission to go into all the world preaching the Gospel of salvation by grace through faith (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Three women bringing spices to anoint the body of Jesus are the first to witness His victory over death (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Joseph of Arimathea persuades Pilate to give him the body of Jesus so he can prepare the Lord for burial (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Mark gives us a view of the crowd at the crucifixion through the eyes of Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Simon of Cyrene has his life transformed after being conscripted to carry the Cross of Jesus Christ part of the way to Calvary (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Pontius Pilate is pressured into condemning Jesus to be crucified (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Peter denies he is a follower of Jesus, but the more he protests, the more his Galilean accent gives him away (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
As Jesus is being led away from Gethsemane, the arresting authorities attempt to grab a young man who is following, only to be left holding his linen robe as he flees naked (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
In Gethsemane, Jesus addresses Peter as ‘Simon’ and calls him out for falling asleep (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus tells Peter that before the rooster crows twice, He will deny Him three times (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
At the last supper Jesus tells His disciples He won’t drink wine until He can drink it with us in His Kingdom (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus praises Mary for anointing Him with costly spikenard as they were eating supper (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus praises Mary for anointing Him with costly spikenard as they were eating supper (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus asks His disciples to take special notice of the poor widow as she puts her last two mites in the offering (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
As part of His criticism of certain scribes, Jesus accuses them of devouring widows houses (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus is asked if Jews ought to pay taxes to the oppressive government of the Caesars (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
The vinedressers that lease the Lord’s vineyard prove to be wicked men who violently oppose Him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus overturns the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sell doves (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus encounters a fig tree full of leaves having no figs growing underneath them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus rides a donkey into Jerusalem amidst a throng of people shouting “Hosanna!” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
A blind man’s cries for mercy cause Jesus to come to a complete stand still on His way to the Cross (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
The twelve disciples of Jesus want to sit on thrones, but Jesus tells them they must first serve as slaves (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus receives the little children being brought to Him and pronounces a blessing over each one (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus attributes the Pharisees question about divorce to their hard-heartedness (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus describes eternal torment using the imagery of worms gnawing the body for eternity (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
His disciples are afraid to ask Jesus how the Son of Man can suffer and be killed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus commands a deaf and dumb spirit to come out of a young boy (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Coming down from the mountain after Jesus was transfigured before them, His disciples have a question for Him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Calling upon us to follow Him as His disciples, Jesus praises the value of denying ourselves (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
After Jesus spits in his eyes, a blind man says he sees men like trees, walking (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
The Pharisees rudely demand a sign, but Jesus says that no sign will be given to them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus heals a deaf man with a speech impediment using His spit (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus tells us it’s not what enters from outside that defiles us, but what is already inside each one of us (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus walks on water in the fourth watch of the night to rescue His disciples (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus feeds the five thousand and gives His followers a lesson in what it means to live life moved with compassion (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Herodias sends out her daughter to perform a lewd dance for Herod with the goal of having John the Baptist executed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus sends the twelve out two-by-two and tells them to shake off the dust under their feet anywhere they are not welcomed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus describes Jairus’ daughter as sleeping, then raises her from the dead (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus gives the demons who identify themselves as Legion permission to enter a herd of two thousand pigs (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
While the wind whips the sea into a frenzied storm, Jesus is fast asleep on a pillow in the stern of the boat (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus let’s us know what we will be doing throughout the current age by telling and explaining the Parable of the Sower (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
Jesus likens His display of power and authority over the devil to binding a strong man in order to enter his house and plunder his goods (Pastor Gene Pensiero)