<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Mark, my words: Jesus tackles divorce head&nbsp;on.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; this is a passage i would rather skip over, and most people do. I can&#8217;t remember ever hearing someone preach on this. I don&#8217;t particularly want any of my friends who have been divorced to read or watch this.</p>
<p>But at the same time, can we afford to avoid it. And what makes this one really difficult is that it doesn&#8217;t seem like a lost-in-translation or easy-to-misinterpret passage. It is Jesus talking. And what He is saying seems pretty clear to me.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a nervous look at Mark 10 from 1-12:</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/mark-my-words-unless-you-become-like-a-child"><strong>[For the next passage on becoming like a little child, click here]</strong></a></p>
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