Sip #1 – Read Chapter 5 of Mark in the HCSB translation as Round 5 rolls on
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 5 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow as we move to Mark, Chapter 6

Happy Friday, all! AND… A Happy National Sleepover Day! Every May 9th we give kids an incredible opportunity to be inspiring, therapeutic, out of control, sleep deprived, and noisy into the wee hours of the morning. They let their hair down or put it up. Sometimes they tell hair-raising stories and laugh until they cry or cry until they laugh. It’s always a night of begging to stay and all kinds of unexpected ingenuity.

I remember these days very well.

#NationalSleepoverDay

Let’s read Mark, Chapter 5, and take a good  look at verses 1-5…

“Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him. He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore—even with chains— because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had snapped off the chains and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him. And always, night and day, he was crying out among the tombs and in the mountains and cutting himself with stones.”

This is the most detailed description of a…