Alex Singleton

Tag: Isaiah 6

  • Why Mark includes the healing of two blind men

    A running theme that Mark highlights in his Gospel is the inability of people to see. Even Jesus’s closest followers struggle. “Who is this?” the disciples asked Jesus in chapter 4. “Even the wind and the waves obey him!” Jesus speaks extensively in parables to avoid getting into too much trouble and also to fulfil…

  • Romans 8 v1: ‘there is now no condemnation’

    I was at a big church in the centre of a major town. The preacher was speaking about Romans 8 and kept repeating its opening, when a someone interrupted from the back. The text in question says (NIV): Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus…