Today’s 4th chapter of Mark’s Gospel tells us that Jesus “was teaching them many things in parables” [v.2] and Mark gives us 4 examples of the parables adding “with many such parables he spoke the word to them” and “but privately to his own disciples he explained everything” [v.33,34].  Only one of the explanations is recorded and that is the ...

  We all have probably had the experience of suddenly seeing another side of friend’s character that we did not know existed.   We then wonder who they really are!  Hopefully these are good things we see, but sadly, that is not always the case.   Now consider the experience of the disciples of Jesus, our heading is the question they ...