In today’s Bible reading, Jesus rebukes His Disciples for not being able to connect the dots of trusting Him. (Mark 8:7-21) They had witnessed Jesus feed five thousand men (plus wives and children) with five loaves of bread and collected twelve baskets of leftovers. And they saw Him feed four thousand people with seven loaves…
In today’s Bible reading, the religious leaders confront Jesus about His Disciples’ lack of cleanliness. They observed Jesus’ Disciples eating without washing their hands. Jesus quickly rebukes them by pointing out that they had turned tradition on its head. Instead of the tradition helping to draw people to God, they had actually replaced God with…
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 did people recognize the authority of the prophets. Because…
In today’s Bible reading, Jesus encounters a man who has been demonized by a legion of demons. The demons manifested in ways we would describe mental illness today such as self-mutilation and paranoid schizophrenia. Mental illness is real. It is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and it can be debilitating. In many…
If you’ve been around church for long, you’ve probably heard the parable of the soils (Mark 4), part of today’s Bible reading. Jesus pointed out that He spoke in parables to reveal secrets of the Kingdom of God to those who would inherit His Kingdom. (Mark 4:11) Yet His parables cloaked the secrets of the…
There seems to be a great concern among some that they have committed the unpardonable sin and are hopelessly doomed to spend eternity in hell for committing one sin. Well thankfully, Jesus addresses the “unpardonable sin” in today’s Bible reading. As we look at this sin which can never be forgiven, let’s look at what…
