Understanding Loaves
Talk 6 of 16 in the series Mark 2008 given at St Andrews Cathedral.
The next talk in the series is Cleanliness and Godliness
- Pity the disciples
- understanding loaves
- problem of miracles
- Morality tales
- prophet without honour
- the urgent business
- prophet with spine
- politicians!
- example of Jesus
- the storms of life
- Why camel’s hair?
- who is John?
- what is his task?
- John’s death
- Herod and Pilate (6:20, 15:5, 14)
- Herodias and Jews (6:19, 15:10)
- yielding to pressure (6:26, 15:15)
- buried by disciples (6:29, 15:46, 47)
- a pointer? (9:11 – 13)
- The unpopular Jesus
- troubled
- rejected
- distorted
- The popular Jesus
- who?
- what?
- The disciples’ Jesus
- sharing
- caring
- puzzling
- Mark’s Jesus
- after Elijah
- bread in wilderness
- on the waves of the sea . . . I am He
- understanding loaves
- The naked truth
- miracles miss the mark
- Jesus
- the blindness of unbelief