In today’s Bible reading* we read that after celebrating the Passover meal with His Disciples, He leads them to the Garden of Gethsemane singing a hymn. Jesus asked three of His Disciples, Peter, James, and John to pray with Him. He tells them that he is greatly distressed and troubled and asks them to remain…
How do you respond when someone says, “I have good news and I have bad news”? Several times in today’s Bible reading*, Jesus does just that. He talks about the Last Days and His return. In the way He describes things, it would be very easy to be anxious. But that’s not why He tells…
Reading through Mark 6 (today’s Bible reading*) one word struck my mind: authority. In the beginning paragraph, we see Jesus’ townspeople only seeing Jesus as “Joseph and Mary’s son”. They didn’t see Him for Who He was, so they didn’t recognize the authority He had. Neither had the people recognized the authority of the Old…
There seems to be a great concern among some that they have committed the unforgivable sin and are hopelessly doomed to spend eternity in hell for committing one sin. Well thankfully, Jesus addresses the “unforgivable sin” in today’s Bible reading*. As we look at this sin which can never be forgiven, let’s look at what…
In today’s Bible reading*, we see two things that are called, “awe-inspiring”: an awe-inspiring sign in heaven (v. 1) and the awe-inspiring works of God (v. 3). Awe is a word that is foreign to many Believers. We just don’t see things as being “awe-inspiring”. The things of God tend to be, quite frankly, normal. Boring….
With today’s Bible reading*, we begin reading 1 John. One thing that strikes me from the very beginning of the letter is that John says that he and the other Apostles aren’t just passing along folk tales. They aren’t just passing along what other people told them. John says, “What was from the beginning, what we have…
