Sip #1 – Read Chapter 3 of Mark in The Message translation (MSG in Bible apps)
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 3 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow as we we read Mark, Chapter 4

Happy Sunday, all! The Championship Game of the Men’s NCAA Tournament is set… It’s Florida vs. Houston, as Duke had a bit of a collapse in the final minutes of their loss to Houston. That’s how it goes sometimes, doesn’t it? In the positive spotlight, about ready to make a “name” for yourself… then, in a flash, “fame” slips away. We can all go from the outhouse… to the penthouse… and back to the outhouse in a day (or less). 

Fame, as we know it, is very much overrated. And, yet, there is a fame that does matter once we enter a new “world.”

Let’s read Mark, Chapter 3, and I will show you what I mean… Look at verses 14-19…

“The plan was that they would be with him, and he would send them out to proclaim the Word and give them authority to banish demons. These are the Twelve:

Simon (Jesus later named him Peter, meaning “Rock”),
James, son of Zebedee,
John, brother of James (Jesus nicknamed the Zebedee brothers Boanerges, meaning “Sons of Thunder”),
Andrew,
Philip,
Bartholomew,
Matthew,
Thomas,
James, son of Alphaeus,
Thaddaeus,
Simon the Canaanite…’”

I intentionally left off Judas, because…