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Mark 1:27-28

How many newspaper clippings have your parents collected about your athletic career?  I imagine each of you have scrapbooks filled with photos and articles written about how you excelled in your sport.  Did you ever wonder at the attention you received for playing your game?  Jesus had a similar experience in his life, a few centuries before newspapers.

Mark writes about this incident at chapter 1 and verses 27 and 28, “The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, ‘What is this?  A new teaching - and with authority!  He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him.’  News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.”

Jesus had recently done some amazing things and the news about him was spreading like wildfire.  There was a buzz all over the region about this guy and the awesome works he was performing.

It’s fun to be in the newspaper, to see your face on television and to be the topic of conversation at the local restaurants on the morning after a great night of competition.  Jesus knew that exhilaration just like you.

As you compete today, focus your mind and prepare your body in order to give people something to talk about.  Give your absolute best effort on the field of competition and who knows, you might be the talk of the town.

Bible Reading Plan:
Matthew 19:16-30
Acts 26:19-32
Psalms 43
Leviticus 16-17