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Suffering, Then Hosanna: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 11:1-11)

I was reading Psalm 116:1, which says, “I love the Lord because He has heard my voice,” and it is certainly the case that our love for God is premised on the wonderful way in which He has heard

Should I Be Doing Miracles?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:14-29)

You have no doubt heard reports of certain Christians or ministries experiencing the power of miracles in their work. What do you do with that? Immediately discount it? Immediately embrace it?

Kingdom Glory for You and Me: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:1-8)

So what do we get for taking up our cross and following Jesus? Besides death, possibly? What will we miss if we deny Jesus? The kingdom! And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some

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

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

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.

Dire Straits: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 5:21-43)

What is the most dire situation you have ever faced? I immediately think of the near death of my son-in-law, my oldest daughter’s husband. In Mark’s Gospel Jesus has been meeting people

Shade Tree or Weed? Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:26-34)

Are you a shade tree or a weed? Jesus continues describing the kingdom in parables and by doing so exposes our wrong motives and encourages real life. Take a look at yourself in this mirror, he says. He

Are You Really Saved?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 4:1-20)

How do you know if someone is really a follower of Jesus? A real sea-change has been occurring in Jesus’ ministry. The popularity of it has not waned, in fact, perhaps, it has increased. But

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

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

Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Holy to Yahweh (Zechariah 14:10-21)

The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner

Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Feet of Jesus (Zechariah 14:1-9)

Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses

Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Pierce the Piercers (Zechariah 13:2-9)

“And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the

Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: The Day of Yahweh and Strength Through Yahweh (Zechariah 12:1-9)

The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I am about to make

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