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🍞 Mark 8:14–21 — “Stop Stressing About Bread” — Emily Santanberg

December 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

It's not about how much you take on your trip, it's about who's travelling with you. Also unbelief can be contagious.
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🍞🐟 Mark 8:1–13 — The Second Feeding, the Maths Problem, and the Blindness of the Pharisees — Emily Santanberg

December 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

If God were a mathematical equation, the left hand and right hand sides don't always balance out.
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👂👅 Mark 7:31–37 — The Deaf Man, the Strange Healing, and Why Jesus Acts Like a Doctor — Emily Santanberg

December 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

He couldn't hear, he couldn't speak, but Jesus opened him up to receive because his friends interceded for him.
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🍞🌍 Reflection on Mark 7 — Food, Faith, and Who the Gospel Is Really For — Emily Santanberg

December 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Jesus said: No-one is beyond salvation; the gospel is for everyone.
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🌍🐾 The Syrophoenician Woman — Mark 7:24–30 — Emily Santanberg

December 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

It doesn't matter what your background is, what your ethnicity or your religion. Jesus came to save you too.
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🚫🧼 It Was Never About Dirty Hands — Mark 7:1–22 — Emily Santanberg

December 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Nothing you put in your mouth can make your dirty, unclean or evil. Jesus was talking about food, but - to a twentysomething woman like me - I guess it could refer to other things too. 😉
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🌿 Reflection on Mark 6: Being Open to God — Emily Santanberg

December 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

It doesn't matter how strong your faith is, it matters how open you are to God working in your life.
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🌊👣 Walking on Water (and Why It Freaked Them Out) — Mark 6:45–56 — Emily Santanberg

December 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Jesus didn't need to be in the boat with them
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🍞🐟 “You Give Them Something to Eat” — Mark 6:30–44 — Emily Santanberg

December 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

As a maths graduate, I'm always wonder about the equation that could replicate Jesus turning 5 loaves and 2 fishes into 12 baskets.
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💔✨ Salome Didn’t Deserve Any of This — A Gen Z Take on Mark 6:14–29 — Emily Santanberg

December 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Salome wasn't a villain, she was an abuse victim and she needed the Gospel too.
buymeacoffee.com/esantanberg/salome-didn-deserve-any-this-a-gen-z-take-mark-6-14-29

🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️ Two by Two — Mark 6:6–13 — Emily Santanberg

November 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Creating God's kingdom has been a divine/human partnership since day 6
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🏡 Homecomings Are Hard — Mark 6:1–5 — Emily Santanberg

November 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Sometimes the people that have invested the most in who you were find it more difficult to accept who are becoming
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👧🏽✨ Twelve Years, Two Daughters, One Kingdom — Reflections on Mark 5:21–43 — Emily Santanberg

November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Took a tiny break and just dropped a big Mark’s Gospel mega-reflection on the feed. During Advent I’m continuing to focus on Jesus’ story for a bit, so Female Saints Fest is paused (they’ll be back!). Excited to continue walking through Mark as we head toward Christmas. 🌟✨

November 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

12 is the magic number
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🐖 The Man Called Legion — Mark 5:1–20 — Emily Santanberg

November 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Sometimes what Jesus does can be scary, in a good way, but it's worth it!
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🌍 Still Day Six — Reflections on Mark 4 — Emily Santanberg

November 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

God's Kingdom, the New Creation is not something coming in the future, it started in the very beginning
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📆 November 24 – Saints Flora & Maria of Córdoba — Emily Santanberg

November 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

🌹 Emily’s Female Saints Fest

Nov 24 – St Flora & St Maria 🌹
Two Christian women in 9th-century Córdoba who stood up to Islamic invaders
They teach us courage, not fear — and that Christianity is defended by witness, not anger.
#EmilysFemaleSaintsFest

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🌱 Reflections on Mark 4 — Still Day Six, Still Creating… Even in the Storms — Emily Santanberg

November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

"Be fruitful AND increase in number" - God didn't tell us just to have kids, although that's important too!
buymeacoffee.com/esantanberg/reflections-mark-4-still-day-six-still-creating-even-storms

🌊 “Do You Still Have No Faith?” (Mark 4:35–41) — Emily Santanberg

November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

God can help with anything but he won't force you to accept it
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🌱 Tiny Seeds, Quiet Kingdoms (Mark 4:26–34) — Emily Santanberg

November 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Y'all guess what? We're still on the 6th day and God never stopped creating.
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💡 Don’t Hide the Light (Mark 4:21–25) — Emily Santanberg

November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

Faith is a verb, not a noun
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🌾 The Sower, the Seeds, and the Secrets (Mark 4:1–26) — Emily Santanberg

November 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM

Emily Santanberg

@emilysantanberg.bsky.social

So yeah, why the fuck did Jesus use parables and not explain it to everyone?
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