Teaching | The Kingdom | The Prophet E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What does the kingdom of God actually look like? John Mark walks through Isaiah's prophetic vision of the Messiah and the coming Kingdom of God, then explores its fulfillment in Jesus's ministry and parables. He leaves us by challenging us with Jesus's words to "seek first the Kingdom" in a culture full of competing visions of the good life.
Key Scripture Passages: Isaiah 10v33-11v9; Luke 3v21-22; Mark 1v1-3, 14-15; Mark 4v30-34; Matthew 6v21, 31-33
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Coleman Teachings podcast. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your host. |
| 0:09.3 | Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other voices in the formation space and it's great to have you with us. |
| 0:16.0 | We're continuing our series on the prophets, exploring the tension between judgment and the hope in the Old Testament. |
| 0:22.5 | In this week's episode, John Mark impacts the prophetic vision of the coming Messiah and his kingdom of God, |
| 0:28.7 | and then explores what it means for us to actually seek first the kingdom in a city full of competing visions of the good life. |
| 0:42.7 | Here's John Mark. Hey, I'm turning your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 10. Isaiah chapter 10. Hey, we are reading through the Bible together |
| 0:53.2 | as a community, at least a number of us are. |
| 0:57.3 | This last week was a wild ride, am I right? |
| 1:00.7 | Yes, yes, three of you. |
| 1:03.1 | We read a lot. |
| 1:04.5 | We read what, Josea, Joel, Amos, and Micah, and Jonah, all in one week. It was crazy. Next up for the coming week is Micah, |
| 1:15.0 | all the way through Zefaniah, as well as we start Job. Come on. If you're not in a bad mood yet, |
| 1:22.3 | you will be. And actually, we're doing a series in a few weeks on Job and The Problem of Evil that I'm just like, |
| 1:28.7 | I'm like nerding out right. It's going to be really fun and depressing, but really fun. |
| 1:32.9 | And then we watch Naham Hoback, Zef and I, and Job. Make sure you know about the Bible Project. |
| 1:37.5 | Make sure you have the Read Scripture app. It's free. If you don't have that, that's from the |
| 1:41.8 | Bible Project, and it has your reading every day, has the video every day, in particular as we're kind of trucking through these shorter books where you watch a video every two or three days. |
| 1:49.9 | That app is really helpful, and hopefully you're there to chat about it with your community at your weekly meal. |
| 1:56.5 | Now, last week to kind of help you through this really treacherous part of the Bible, we started |
| 2:03.4 | a new series on the Prophet, this odd artistic disruptor of the status quo toward the end |
| 2:10.4 | of the Old Testament. |
| 2:11.7 | And we said that the Prophet undulates back and forth between judgment and hope. |
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