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The Least Is Greatest: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:33-37)
How do you know when someone’s ego is too far gone? They don’t get embarrassed by their obvious conceitedness. They perhaps even celebrate it. “Nobody builds walls better than me…I
Continue reading...Any Questions?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:30-32)
Don’t you just love it at the end of a class or some other presentation, with five minutes left to go, the presenter says, “Any questions?” Silence is all that usually follows. Sometimes
Continue reading...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?
Continue reading...When My Understanding Doesn’t Fit the Facts: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 9:9-13)
Has your doctrine changed ever? Or is your doctrine so purely correct that no new facts can change your mind about it? Perhaps you’ve seen fellow believers whose doctrine has changed (so and
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...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,
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