Sip #1 – Read Chapter 12 of Mark in The Message translation (MSG)
Sip #2 – Read my big takeaway from the day
Sip #3 – Add comments/thoughts/questions in the Comments Box (bottom of page). NOT REQUIRED
Sip #4 – Re-read any parts of Chapter 12 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow as we we read Mark, Chapter 13

I’m working on an additional cup of coffee (or two) this morning. I know that may sound typical for me, BUT… it’s one level up today. One of the issues that kept me distracted and busy last night was a major mental breakdown with someone I know. It was all-consuming for a couple hours. Ever dealt with a situation like that? I feel like I have run a marathon. As a matter of fact, I would feel more alive today if I had! Whew… very draining.

Hey, let’s brighten the room, and go after Mark, Chapter 12… verses 18-23 are SO good…

“Some Sadducees, the party that denies any possibility of resurrection, came up and asked, “Teacher, Moses wrote that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to marry the widow and have children. Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless. The second married her. He died, and still no child. The same with the third. All seven took their turn, but no child. Finally the wife died. When they are raised at the resurrection, whose wife is she? All seven were her husband.””

What if scenarios.

What I have observed in our culture over the last several decades is…