Marked By The Anointing

Marked by the Anointing

The Lord has anointed all believers to demonstrate His power by operating in their anointing, and yet it remains one of the most misunderstood topics in the modern-day church. In Marked by the Anointing, Anthony Trezza takes readers on a journey through the Bible, revealing what the anointing is according to the word of God and not according to the tradition of men. As you read this book you will clearly see that the anointing is not a power, it the process by which the Lord marks and sets apart ordinary men and women for an extraordinary work, and that the power of the anointing is the Holy Spirit.

The Gospel of Mark in Context

The short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the circum-Mediterranean region. Mark's account presupposes the values, institutions, and relationships of the culture in which Jesus and his first followers lived. Modern readers of the Gospels, however, especially those born and raised in the North Atlantic postindustrial societies, have other values and institutions, and relate to each other according to other cultural codes. This temporal and cultural distance between the ancient texts and their present-day readers makes necessary an exegetical effort whose purpose is to recover, as far as possible, the reading scenarios presupposed by these texts. In order to reconstruct these scenarios, exegesis has turned in recent years to the social sciences, whose models permit us to imagine and describe the situations presupposed by these ancient texts. This book aims to show how the use of these scenarios elaborated with the help of the social sciences can contribute to a more considered and respectful reading of Mark's story.

A Pictorial Commentary on the Gospel According to Mark