Tabitha Smith continues our series on Receiving and Giving, Prayer and Provision with “Gain and Loss” based on Mark 8: 31-38.
Resources – Apps and Websites
Lectio 365 (free) – daily devotions for morning and evening in the Lectio Divina style
Inner Room (free) – an app from the 24-7 Prayer movement, for creating prayer reminders
and prompts
Dwell (paid subscription needed) – audio Bible in multiple translations and different voices,
listening plans and daily devotions. Paid subscription required but the resources available
are extensive.
Bible app from YouVersion (free) – Bible texts, audio, devotionals and readings plans.
Available in multiple languages and Bible translations.
The BibleProject app and website, www.bibleproject.com (free) – videos, podcasts, articles
and Bible study classes. Also included is a year-long interactive study companion to the
Sermon on the Mount (in progress through 2024).
Time to Pray (free) – morning and evening services of prayer, psalms and readings
following the Church of England’s Common Worship. For those who like a more structured,
liturgical approach.
Truth for Life – Alistair Begg, www.truthforlife.org (365 daily devotionals, also available in
two printed volumes).
Mark 8: 31-38
Jesus Predicts His Death
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
The Way of the Cross
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Footnotes
- Mark 8:35 The Greek word means either life or soul; also in verses 36 and 37.
