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Easy Following: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:34-38)
You’ve heard of “easy listening.” How about “easy following”? What is it in us that thinks following Jesus is an option, or that anything less than radically following
Continue reading...Necessary Suffering: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:31-33)
None of us wants to believe that suffering is the gateway to glory. Every effort of our lives is toward preventing or avoiding suffering. We don’t like to be reminded that we are the ones who
Continue reading...The Question: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:27-30)
All of Mark’s Gospel is really intended to answer the question of who Jesus is. He begins by telling us that Jesus is Messiah, the Son of God, and then begins to give evidence of that in the account
Continue reading...Waiting For the Final Healing: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:22-26)
Many of us, no, I guess I should say all of us, have experienced a partial healing from God. All of us who are born again, that is. We have been restored to relationship with God, but there are still
Continue reading...Stopping the Infection: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:14-21)
When I was a kid and fell and cut open my knee my mom put this lovely red liquid on it that burned like fire. Mercurochrome. Remember it, you old people? It was to kill bacteria. Bacteria could
Continue reading...Sigh-lent Night: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:11-13)
We’ve talked about our own reluctance to trust God for miracles. Maybe there is something darker going on in our hearts in this regard. The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from
Continue reading...Should We Expect Miracles: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 8:1-10)
Are you scared to ask for miracles? I find myself scared. It is as if my faith is on the line to do so and I don’t want to be denounced or disappointed. I need the lesson of a second miraculous
Continue reading...Jesus Is Not a Vending Machine: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 7:31-37)
Why are people drawn to Jesus? We can think of many reasons. His character, his mission, his popularity with others we respect, and maybe the prosperity we think he provides. As Jesus ministered in
Continue reading...Crumby Faith: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 7:24-30)
Does it sometimes feel like the only way to get your requests of God answered is to have someone really spiritual pray them for you, or say the requests the right way, or be holy enough to deserve an answer?
Continue reading...Christian Jewish Kosher: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 7:14-23)
I have some friends who are Jewish, or Gentile converts to Judaism, who worship Jesus as the Messiah. They are Christians and they are Jews (or converts to Christian Judaism). They observe kosher,
Continue reading...Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pharisees: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 7:1-13)
Are we guilty of giving up the power of the kingdom and replacing it with rules? Is there a reason Jesus talks so much about the Pharisees? We seem most likely to become like them. We need to examine
Continue reading...Powers of the Age to Come, Now: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:53-56)
Jesus taught us to pray for the kingdom’s coming, to pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. But Jesus also taught that with his coming the kingdom of God was at hand.
Continue reading...Jesus’ Deity: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:45-52)
Do you have to believe that Jesus is God in order to be saved? Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And after
Continue reading...Burnout: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:30-44)
Are you tired from serving the Lord? Are you burned out? Jesus has many things to teach us about ministry, the ministry he has commissioned us to do. He has taught us that we can do his ministry by
Continue reading...Head on a Platter: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:14-29)
Mark has challenged us with the account of Jesus sending his followers out into the villages to preach the kingdom. We are to do the same if we trust Jesus and are loyal to him. But now he asks us
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