This year, we’re diving deep into the Gospel of Mark with our year-long sermon series. To help you engage with God’s Word and grow in your understanding, we’ve gathered a variety of resources just for you.
Here, you’ll find study recommended books, commentaries, and other tools to help you explore Mark’s message of Jesus’ life, ministry, and mission. Whether you’re studying on your own, with your family, or in a small group, these resources are designed to enrich your walk with Christ.
Let’s journey through Mark together and discover how His story changes ours!
Here, you’ll find study recommended books, commentaries, and other tools to help you explore Mark’s message of Jesus’ life, ministry, and mission. Whether you’re studying on your own, with your family, or in a small group, these resources are designed to enrich your walk with Christ.
Let’s journey through Mark together and discover how His story changes ours!
ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal: Mark
These thin, portable notebooks have unique gold-foil stamped covers and are great for art journaling, personal Bible reading and prayer, small-group Bible study, or taking notes through a sermon series. It is a notebook of just the Scripture of Mark that has one side of lined paper for note-taking and space annotations. If you prefer a different version, just look on Amazon for other options!
Bible Project Resources
Link to all of the Bible Project's resources on Mark. Here you will find their video, poster, and lots of helpful details that you can dive into to go deeper.
Thomas Constable 's Commentary on Mark
This link will take you to a free, online commentary written by Thomas Constable that offers background on the book of Mark, an outline, and more details broken up by chapter.
Blue Letter Bible Resources
There are many resources on Blue Letter Bible in addition to being able to read the Word. Pastor Mike recommends several of the commentaries: David Guzik, Chuck Smith, Matthew Henry, Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, and Dr. J. Vernon McGee - all at NO cost!
R.T. France Commentary on Mark
This work is a commentary on Mark itself, not a commentary on commentaries of Mark. It deals immediately and directly with matters that France himself regards as important. Working from his own translation of the Greek text and culling from helpful research into the world of first-century Palestine, France provides an extensive introduction to Mark's Gospel, followed by insightful section and verse commentary.
Level: Advanced, Type: Technical
Level: Advanced, Type: Technical
William L Lane Commentary on the NT - Mark
This widely praised commentary by William Lane shows Mark to be a theologian whose primary aim was to strengthen the people of God in a time of fiery persecution by Nero. Using redaction criticism as a hermeneutical approach for understanding the text and the intention of the evangelist, Lane considers the Gospel of Mark as a total literary work and describes Mark's creative role in shaping the Gospel tradition and in exercising a conscious theological purpose.
Level: Intermediate, Type: Expository
Level: Intermediate, Type: Expository
David E. Garland NIV Application Commentary
Mark displays Jesus Christ as the New Beginning, giving us all the chance to start over at any time. The Gospel of Mark starts abruptly and has no ending, showing that Jesus makes it possible for the story of God, working in human history and in the Church, to go on and on.
Level: Intermediate, Type: Devotional
Level: Intermediate, Type: Devotional
The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark's Gospel
Peter G. Bolt looks at why the cross is so prominent in the narrative, asks what contribution Mark's teaching can make to our understanding of the atonement, and shows how this teaching can inform, correct and enrich our own preaching of the gospel in the contemporary world. This New Studies in Biblical Theogy volume helps us to stand in wonder before the God who has come close to us in the cross of Jesus Christ and to live in hope for the better things to come.Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles.
Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel
In this third edition of Mark as Story, Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie take their treatment of the Gospel of Mark to new levels. While retaining their clear and thorough analysis of Mark as a narrative, they now place their study of Mark in the context of orality. The new preface explains the role of Mark in a predominantly oral culture. Throughout the study, they refer to the author as composer, the narrator as performer, the Gospel as oral composition, and the audience as gathered communities. The conclusion hypothesizes a performance scenario of Mark in Palestine shortly after the Roman-Judean War of 66 to 70 CE.
The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark
The New Testament’s messianic interpretation of the Old is an important key to its theology. This book examines the way the author of the Gospel of Mark uses the Old Testament to convey the identity of Jesus. Joel Marcus examines in detail several important Markan passages which use the Old Testament. His central thesis is that Mark’s Old Testament usage follows paths already made by Jewish exegesis, particularly apocalyptic reinterpretations of Old Testament texts. Giving such eschatological exegesis his own characteristic twist, Mark presents Jesus as God’s true Messiah who brings the prophesied victory in eschatological holy war. Unlike the Jewish War against Rome in A.D. 66-72, however, the holy war portrayed by Mark is not fought with conventional weapons but won through the apocalyptic event of Jesus’ death and resurrection. This thoroughly documented and closely argued study is an important contribution to our understanding of the Gospel of Mark.