“for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.” Mark 6:20 ESV Reflection: what do you do when you have a conflict with someone? Have you noticed that, to admit being wrong […]
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“So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.” Mark 6:12 ESV Reflection: what do you envision heaven to be like? How can we experience a taste of that now? All believers, followers of Christ Jesus, long for the day when we will see our King, to see His glory. We read prophecy,
“And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.” Mark 6:5 ESV Reflection: how can an almighty God be limited in what He can do? Have you ever tried to help someone who doesn’t think you can help, or doesn’t want your
“And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” “And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.” Mark
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“And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?””Mark 4:41 ESV Reflection: what do you fear the most? If you were to guess what the population fear the most, what would it be? Most people have fears, or anxieties,
“With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.”Mark 4:33 ESV Reflection: what do you do with truth when you hear it? Not long after starting my first job after graduate school, our group already had a new manager as our current manager was retiring. I will
“But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”” Mark 4:29 ESV Reflection: when is the harvest of the Lord? Driving through the seemingly endless stretches of states like Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa in the middle of the summertime, you see fields of various crops that
“For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”” Mark 4:25 ESV Reflection: God generously spreads truth. But how can a truth “be taken away” from us? The second parable recorded can at first glance appear disconnected to the
“And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”” Mark 4:11-12 ESV Reflection: why does God
“For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”” Mark 3:35 ESV Reflection: which do you try to follow closer – what your church is teaching, or what Jesus taught? We have looked previously at the huge number of Christian denominations that exist, even in just the United States.
