The Lion Speaks: Studies in the Gospel of Mark

by David C. Stancil

Publisher:

David Stancil

, 2024

Overview

Scholars generally agree that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the four Gospels to be written, probably between A.D. 55-65. The other Gospels quote all but thirty-one verses of Mark, and Mark records more miracles than any of the others.

Mark’s Gospel is fast-paced, and one of his most characteristic words is “immediately!” The Gospel was written to the Christians in Rome, and may actually have been written in Rome.

The present work is not a commentary, and it is not an exposition of every verse in Mark, though it does move through Mark in an orderly sequence. These fifty-six sermons represent an extended effort to instruct and to encourage God’s people as they explore the many topics addressed by The First Gospel.

Key Features

• Explores the first of the four Gospels to be written.
• Moves through Mark in an orderly sequence.
• Represents an extended effort to instruct and to encourage God’s people.

Product Details

• Title: The Lion Speaks: Studies in the Gospel of Mark
• Author: David C. Stancil
• Publisher: David Stancil
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Pages: 568
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBN: 9798342206044
• Resource ID: LLS:LNSPKSSTGSPLMRK
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-09T18:24:30Z

About David C. Stancil

David Stancil, graduated from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, with a B.A. in psychology (summa cum laude). He has an M.Div. from Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, a Th.M. from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and a Ph.D., also from Southern. He was on the faculty at Southern from 1991-1996.

Dave was an engineering officer on destroyers during Vietnam and was later a Navy Chaplain, serving altogether for twelve years. He was a pastoral psychotherapist in Louisville for ten years.

Dave has served as Music Director of churches in Rhode Island and in South Carolina. He has served as Staff Counselor with churches in Kentucky, and has also served churches as Associate Pastor and Minister of Pastoral Care. Dave has served as Senior Pastor of three full-time churches and two part-time churches, including charges in Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia.

Dave has been married to Jill for more than fifty years, and they have two children and five grandchildren.