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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Second Reading
John Mark John Mark, writer of the earliest Gospel (the Gospel of Mark), was an assistant of three early missionaries—Barnabas, Paul, and Peter. Mark was taken along as an assistant by Barnabas and Paul on their first missionary journey.
He does not stand above his audience as one who possesses the message of salvation and dispenses it downward.
Maracleren observes that all earthly teachers—however towering—accomplish limited, transient work.
The apostle's shift from *Saulos* to *Paulos* was not mere accident or Roman courtesy.
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William Tyndale spent twelve years in hiding across Europe, translating the New Testament into English from the original Greek. He worked in cold rooms in...
In 1741, Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf stood before a skeptical audience in London, tasked with introducing the Moravian missionary movement to the English-speaking world. Zinzendorf...
In 1943, a sharecropper named Hattie Mae Roberts in Kosciusko, Mississippi, made a quiet promise to God. She couldn't read, owned nothing, and picked cotton...
In 1493, Christopher Columbus wrote a letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella announcing his discovery of the New World. That letter changed the course...
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