God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. Mark 10:5 (NIV) Do we find it a little funny that we constantly try to break down the Bible and the teachings of Jesus? Doesn´t it seem that we try to turn everything into a black and white rule? Jesus... Continue Reading →
¨Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” Mark 6:36 (TNIV) Many a great teacher would have us come over to or see his or her view. We follow the old method of teaching which is to share from ones wealth of... Continue Reading →
So he went on to say; “In this way the kingdom of God is just as when a man casts the seed upon the ground, and he sleeps at night and rises up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows tall, just how he does not know.” Mark 4:26-27 (Reference Bible) Jesus is back... Continue Reading →
Harken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: Mark 4:3 (KJV) The parable of the sower and his seed is repeated often and remembered well within the flock of God´s sheep here on earth. We hear sermons regularly, read it in our studies and refer to it many times. The disciples of Jesus were... Continue Reading →
So he began to teach them many things with illustrations and to say to them in his teaching: “Listen. Look! The sower went out to sow.” Mark 4:2-3 (Reference Bible) Jesus is getting ready to instruct us on some wonderful insights into what our God would have us know about Him, this world and what... Continue Reading →
`and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:20 (NIV) One can see how these words of the risen Christ, could be interpreted to say we need to follow a set of rules. Perhaps Jesus was telling us... Continue Reading →
¨Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.¨ Matthew 26:41 (KJV) There are some bold new teachers out there these days which would have us think that there is more power in just one prayer. These confident people push the idea that we show... Continue Reading →
And He answered them ¨You see all this, do you not? I tell you verily, there shall not be one stone left upon another here that shall not be torn down.¨ Matthew 24:2 (Byington) The words Jesus spoke as His disciples showed Him the wonderful buildings of the temple in Jerusalem would one day be... Continue Reading →
¨But woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you lock the Reign of heaven in men´s faces; for you do not go in yourselves and neither do you let those go in who are going in.¨ Matthew 23:13 (Byington) Jesus spoke much about the reign of heaven or the kingdom. It seems a point... Continue Reading →
And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29 American Standard Version There might be some fanatics somewhere who preach something this radical. ... Continue Reading →
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