Eden Teachings Podcast

In this short but strange story in Mark, we are left with a litany of questions. Did Jesus purposely dismiss someone in need of help? Was he being racist towards this woman? Is there something else deeper going on? What if Jesus learns something fundamental about his mission... from a Canaanite woman (an "enemy of God" in the Jewish imagination)? Wait... can Jesus learn things??? Taught...

How do you measure your spiritual formation? Is it based on the amount of times you read your Bible in a week, or how long you prayed or didn't pray this week? Or how about your schedule to serve the poor or share the Gospel? What if Jesus had a different metric? What if He was way more interested in whether you are becoming like Him (I .e. a person of love as defined by Him)? Taught by Will S...

By far, Jesus walking on water is one of the most popular stories of the Bible. In it, he encourages his disciples to not be anxious or afraid. Why is it that we have such an allergic reaction to that?  Because Jesus words are modern day blasphemy when anxiety is the worst it's ever been in human history. But what would it look like if we took Jesus up on His own word and trusted him with ever...

What does it look like for the Kingdom of God to break in?  The "untouchable" are touched and loved.  The dead are brought back to life.  A man from the upper echelon of society and a woman from the lowest part of society are on equal playing ground.  A place filled with people full of hope, trust, and expectancy in Messiah Jesus.   Taught by Caleb Sprinkle Passage : Mark 5:21-43

Have you ever wondered why Jesus spoke in parables? So did his disciples. As a master artist, Jesus was not concerned about communicative clarity; he wanted to be known. He wanted people to dig deep and follow Him. In Mark 4, Jesus gives the parable of the four soils, which is less about "who's in; who's out", and more an invitation to how will we respond to Jesus' words and...

What do the Scriptures really say about Satan, demons, and spiritual evil? Taught by Caleb Sprinkle Texts: Mark 3:12-15 & 20-35; 5:1-20

From Tim Chester's book, A Meal With Jesus: "There are three ways the New Testament completes the sentence, “The Son of Man came . . .” “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45); “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10); “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking . . .” (Luke 7:34).  The first two a...

In Mark's Prologue (vv 1-15), we wrestle with topics like baptism, why the Spirit brought Jesus out in the wilderness to be tested by the Satan, who the heck is this locust-eating John figure, and why Jesus sees himself leading a New Exodus. Taught by Caleb Sprinkle Text: Mark 1:1-15

What is the gospel? Is it a simple formula so I can go to Heaven when I die? Or is it much deeper and richer than we have been led to believe? See how Mark (and Jesus) define the gospel of the Kingdom. Taught by Caleb Sprinkle Text: Mark 1:1

We become a community of rest in a culture of hurry and exhaustion through the practice of Sabbath. Taught by Caleb Sprinkle Thank you to Practicing the Way for permission to use their content for this sermon.

We become a community of holiness in a culture of indulgence and immorality through the practice of Fasting. Taught by Caleb Sprinkle Thank you to Practicing the Way for permission to use this content

We become a community of courageous fidelity to orthodoxy in a culture of ideological compromise through the practice of Scripture. Taught by Caleb Sprinkle