God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
“First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” Mark 7:27 (NIV) The children of the Lord are sitting up at their Heavenly Father´s table each week. The churches of the world are filled in each service of young... Continue Reading →
“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.) Mark 7:18-19 (NIV) Come on guys, Jesus says. How... Continue Reading →
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” Mark 7:14-15 (NIV) It was the great problem Jesus had with the people around him. People constantly... Continue Reading →
And he continued, "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! Mark 7:9 (NIV) They had come to prove to themselves and to the world that this Man Jesus, could not be from God. He and His renegade Disciples were stepping over the boundaries... Continue Reading →
White snow lay like a fluffy white blanket covering the ground, bushes and trees all around. Soft moonlight reflected faintly on the frosty scenery. Streetlamps gave off a yellow glow on the road and the freshly shoveled sidewalk which led up to the door of the chapel. The windows shone brightly with light from inside... Continue Reading →
He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “´These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; there teachings are merely human rules.´ Mark 7:6-7 (TNIV) Wow, strong words are coming from our Savior. He is not holding... Continue Reading →
So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don´t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?” Mark 7:5 (TNIV) They got caught. Jesus´ followers were eating food with unclean hands. They failed to observe the norm, the rule, what all the... Continue Reading →
And wherever he went--into villages, towns or countryside--they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed. Mark 6:56 (NIV) As Jesus traveled through the region, the people recognized Him. The word spread. People went running ahead of... Continue Reading →
For they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened. Mark 6:52 (TNIV) It may be safe to say after viewing how the Disciples went on to carry out the ministry and spread the Word of Jesus to the world, that they learned their lessons well. But sometimes as we read of their... Continue Reading →
Then he climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, Mark 6:51 (TNIV) So many incredible things the Disciples had already seen. But these miracles seemed to be forgotten while their lives were being threatened out there on the lake. They had been shown how powerless they were... Continue Reading →
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