“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
