Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

Application Notes Application A number of transitions happen in Mark 8. Up to now, Jesus has been pretty popular. His miracles had amazed everyone, but in vss 11-13, Jesus signals that he will no longer jump through hoops and perform miracles on command. He had been supernaturally patient with the disciples and their inability to […]

What a day at Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! A special thanks, of course, goes out to everyone who helped with the breakfast. Whether you brought food, helped set up or clean up, thank you! Thank you also to our greeter team for doing a wonderful job and to Taylor A for helping out in the […]

Application Notes Application We’ve all seen them. We all know who they are. We may even know their names, if only so that we can be sure to cast them a condescending sneer every now and again. They’re the ones that look different, act different, smell different, are different. They’re the ones that we go […]

Application Notes Application The feverish pace of action continues in Mark 6 as Jesus returns to his hometown to be rejected by the people there, dispatches his apostles on their first preaching tour, recounts the death of John the Baptist, feeds 5,000 with five loaves and two fish, walks on water, and heals the masses […]

Application Notes Application When I was a freshman in high school, I helped a student-led Bible study at our school that would eventually evolve into a local chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes. For two years after it began, the group often consisted of a total of two or three people, including the two of […]

Another great Sunday at Debra Heights Wesleyan is in the books, and there are so many things to talk about that I hardly know where to start! So I guess we’ll tackle things in the order that they happened. I walked into the church for the second time of the day a couple of minutes […]

Application Notes Application Have you ever met one of those people who, no matter what you do for them, they simply refuse to change for the better? For someone who takes seriously the biblical mandate to serve others in the hopes that their lives would be revolutionized by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, […]

Application Notes Application Once again, the amount of action recorded in Mark 3 is stunning. Mark wastes no time on frivolous details or extraneous transitions. His narrative continues as a shotgun-style account of what Jesus did during his earthly ministry, and once again, there are any number of things in the chapter that we could […]

What a day Sunday was at Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! Here are some thoughts.

Application Notes Application When I read Mark 2, the first thing that impresses me is, again, the sheer amount of action. Mark maintains the feverishly staccato pace that he established in chapter 1. In 27 verses, we have no less than five distinct scenes which document the first seeds of conflict with the Pharisees. To […]