{"id":9963,"date":"2021-11-10T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-mark-14\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:20:48","slug":"devotional-on-mark-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-mark-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15741\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15741\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819-1536x865.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/100_2819.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve &#8211; near Birch Bay, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Broken body, shed blood<\/p>\n<p>Mark 14: Take, this is my body.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve eaten the Passover all their lives so they know the ritual well.  Now, as they gather in the upper room Jesus takes his place as \u201cfather\u201d and the meal begins.  To their surprise, he doesn\u2019t follow the well-known script and, instead, comes up with his own version, the now familiar words of the Communion ritual Christians have used for 2000 years now.  The bread and wine become, in this new ritual, symbols of the broken body and shed blood of our Lord.  These things, in turn, represent the New Covenant God has made with the human race.  Under this covenant, salvation is dependent on faith in the Son of God who willingly gives himself for us.  The Gospel of Mark moves quickly through the Last Supper and I immediately find myself at Gethsemane where Jesus wrestles with the reality of \u201cbroken body and shed blood.\u201d  Every time I receive Communion I\u2019m taken back to the New Covenant and the sacrifice that seals it with blood.  This ritual is rich with meaning but it all starts with broken body, shed blood.<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: My hope of salvation is bound in what is remembered each time I receive communion.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken body, shed blood Mark 14: Take, this is my body. They\u2019ve eaten the Passover all their lives so they know the ritual well. Now, as they gather in the upper room Jesus takes his place as \u201cfather\u201d and the meal begins. To their surprise, he doesn\u2019t follow the well-known script and, instead, comes up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517,1428],"tags":[1210,1226,939,941,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15743,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/15743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}