God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
"Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?" He replied, "I will also ask you a question. Tell me, John's baptism--was it from heaven, or from men?" Luke 20:2-4 (NIV) Jesus is instructing and some people come up to Him to see where He gets the... 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 →
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 →
Because they all saw him and were terrified. Immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take courage! It is I. Don´t be afraid,” Mark 6:50 (TNIV) Jesus appears on the scene. When He moves into the conscious awareness amazing things happen. Now it appears to be more and more remote of a thought, that we... Continue Reading →
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. Mark 6:42-43 (TNIV) One could spend endless amounts of time trying to define faith. Much of our efforts are spent studying it or teaching it to others. But more important than what it is, is... Continue Reading →
For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip´s wife, whom he had married. Mark 6:17 (TNIV) We can call ourselves Christian in the common worldly sense today. But that does not mean that in heaven... Continue Reading →
So they began to plead with Jesus to go away from their region. Mark 5:17 (NWT) What a poor reaction the townspeople had to the miraculous healing Jesus performed on the afflicted man in the graveyard. How could there be people so insensitive as to reject the opportunity to find out a little more of... Continue Reading →
And said to him “See that you do not say anything to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and make the offerings that Moses directed on account of your cleansing, for an attestation to them.” Mark 1:44 (Byington) One may wonder why Jesus sent the healed leper back to the church authorities. He... Continue Reading →
And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Matthew 28:18 (ASV) That some people are more intelligent than others is a fact of life. We have people who go about their day trying not to think about things. They try to... Continue Reading →
Which of the two did the will of his father? They say, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. Matthew 21:31 (AMV) Jesus gives us here in Matthew 21:28-32 an illustration of how we humans react to... Continue Reading →
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