Teaching | Gentle and Humble
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
What is God like? John Mark dives into Matthew 11v25-30, exploring what it means that Jesus is "gentle and humble of heart" and showing why grasping this truth is essential for finding true rest for our souls in a culture of burnout and exhaustion.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 11v25-30; Ephesians 4v2; Colossians 3v12; 1 Peter 3v4; Philippians 2v5-8
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Homer Teachings podcast. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host. |
| 0:09.7 | Each week we future teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space. It's great to have you with us. |
| 0:16.1 | Today John Mark explores one of the most well-known, yet often misunderstood, invitations of Jesus. |
| 0:22.3 | Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. |
| 0:27.3 | He impacts what it means that Jesus describes himself as gentle and humble and heart, |
| 0:31.4 | and why this revelation is essential if we ever want to find true rest for our souls. |
| 0:38.7 | Here's John Mark. |
| 0:48.8 | Good evening, everybody. That was not an encouraging sign for a guest speaker, but it's okay. Great to see you. Good evening, everybody. I'm much less Pentecostal than John. I don't need nearly as much love back, but really |
| 1:00.0 | grateful to be with you. Your name comes up all the time. I work with pastors and churches |
| 1:06.1 | all over the place, and it's beautiful how often I hear the name of your, not just your lead preacher, |
| 1:13.7 | who's one of the best living preachers in the world. And I pray you know that and honor that. |
| 1:18.5 | But you as a community and how you are following Jesus together. I think of that line as I was |
| 1:24.0 | coming here in Thessalonians chapter one. It's one of my favorite lines of the New |
| 1:27.5 | Testament, or Paul writes, you to the church became a model to all the believers all over that |
| 1:34.0 | part of the known world. And in many ways, I think there are pastors and churches and followers of |
| 1:39.2 | Jesus all over the country and the world who are looking to you as a North Star. So well done, and it's |
| 1:46.5 | really a delight to be with you. If you have a Bible, open up to Matthew Chapter 11. We are going |
| 1:52.4 | to work through the text a little bit more. I live in a place called Topanga Canyon, which is |
| 1:59.4 | up in the Santa Monica Mountains, just |
| 2:01.1 | on the edge of LA. |
| 2:03.2 | And this last summer, my wife and I, I'm about to date myself here, but we just celebrated |
| 2:07.4 | 24 years of marriage. |
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