Sip #1 – Read Chapter 11 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 11 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow as we move to Mark, Chapter 12

Let’s fire it up! Starting with… #ChocolateChipDay! Yes, it’s true. Every May 15th, we recognize a pretty popular morsel on National Chocolate Chip Day! Did you know… In 1937, Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman, Massachusetts was curious about what a little bit of chocolate would add to her cookies. While working at the Toll House Inn, she added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestle chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success and in 1939 Wakefield signed an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to the chocolate bar’s packaging. In exchange for the recipe, Wakefield received a lifetime supply of chocolate. The Nestle brand Toll House cookies were named for the Inn.

Chocolate chips originally came in semi-sweet. Later, chocolate producers began offering bittersweet, semi-sweet, mint, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white and dark swirled.

Today we just keep moving right along to Mark, Chapter 11. Let’s take a closer look at the last section, verses 27-33…

“… As Jesus was walking in the temple complex, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came and asked Him, ‘By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority to do these things?’

Jesus said to them, ‘I will ask you one question; then answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. Was John’s baptism from heaven or from men? Answer Me.’

They began to argue among themselves: ‘If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men’”—they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was a genuine prophet. So they answered Jesus, ‘We don’t know.’

And Jesus said to them, ‘Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.’”

There are very few, if any, people that I know who are…