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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. 

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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

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Strange Unbelief: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 6:1-6)

We seem to have a problem with accepting our heroes as normal people, with normal family lives and upbringings.  Like the Greeks, we prefer to think of our heroes as those who are the offspring of gods

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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

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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

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Daily Thoughts from Mark: What Is This? (Mark 1:21-28)

And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Through the Storm (Acts 28:1-10)

After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Laughing at Ourselves (Acts 20:7-16)

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lamps

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Clear Vision (Acts 19:11-20)

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: The Why of Suffering (Acts 12:1-11)

About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Miracles (Acts 9:32-43)

Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed. And Peter said to him,

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: I See the Heavens Opened (Acts 7:54-60)

Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Joy Despite Persecution (Acts 5:12-42)

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Signs and Wonders (Acts 5:12-16)

Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared join them, but the people held

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: Rise Up and Walk! (Acts 3:1-10)

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful

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