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Daily Thoughts from Mark: Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:23-28)
One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Same Wine, New Wineskins (Mark 2:18-22)
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Healing the Leprous Soul (Mark 1:40-45)
And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Authenticated Kingship (Mark 1:35-39)
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, and they found
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Successful Living (Mark 1:29-34)
And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Beloved Son (Mark 1:9-11)
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Preaching in the Wilderness (Mark 1:4-8)
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Mark: Straight Paths (Mark 1:2-3)
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from the Gospel of Mark: The Beginning of the Gospel (Mark 1:1)
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Mark 1:1, ESV) Tradition says that Peter was the apostle behind the Gospel of Mark. Mark is the John Mark who was related to Barnabas and
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Titus: Renouncing Ungodliness (5)
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Pierced Yahweh (Zechariah 12:10-13:1)
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Be an Arrow for the Humble King (Zechariah 9:9-17)
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Philippians (10): Empty Yourself – Philippians 2:5-11
Booker T. Washington was a renowned black educator. Shortly after he took over the presidency of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he was walking in an exclusive section of town when he was stopped by a wealthy
Continue reading...Does the Prophet Say This About Himself or Someone Else? – Isaiah 53 and the Identification of the Servant
Acts 8 recounts Philip the evangelist’s divine encounter with an Ethiopian official of the court of Candace, who was reading the prophet Isaiah in his chariot as he returned from Jerusalem to Ethiopia: So
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Acts: Jesus Is Coming! (Acts 1:9-11)
And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in
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