- Services for Max Fischer will be Monday 21 at 2 PM in Kimble Funeral Home chapel with burial at 11 AM Tuesday in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio.
- Youth Group on Sunday, March 20 at 5:30. Dinner will be provided.
- The youth will be stuffing the Easter Eggs tonight. Please bring your plastic eggs and candy to the Fellowship Hall by 5:30.
- Maundy Thursday Communion Service - Thursday March 24, 6 PM
- Good Friday Service - March 25, 6 PM
- We will have our annual Easter Egg Hunt during the Sunday School hour Easter Sunday.
- Presbyterian Women Mission Conference will be April 1st – 3rd at MO Ranch. Emily will be going for the day Saturday the 2nd.
Mark 14:1-11 (ESV)
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, [2] for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people." [3] And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. [4] There were some who said to themselves indignantly, "Why was the ointment wasted like that? [5] For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor." And they scolded her. [6] But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. [7] For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. [8] She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. [9] And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her." [10] Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. [11] And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
Questions for Reflection
1. When have you ever been criticized for doing something good?
2. What do you think motivates parents to sacrifice for their children?
3. What amazing thing did a woman do while Jesus was visiting Bethany? Where? (14:3)
4. What reaction did the woman’s actions get? Why? (14:4-5)
5. What caused some people with Jesus to become indignant? (14:4-5)
6. What does this incident tell us about some people’s understanding of who Jesus was and why He had come? (14:4-6)
7. Whom did Jesus rebuke? Why? (14:6)
8. How did Jesus evaluate the behavior of the woman who poured out the perfume? (14:6)
9. What can we learn about values from the woman in this story?
10. How can we demonstrate our devotion to Christ?
