Where Is Your Mind Focused? – February 27th
Mark 8:31-33 Key Verse: He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning around and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! You are not thinking about God’s concerns but human concerns.” (Mark 8:32-33 CSB) Often times there is a huge difference in […]
Who Do You Say That Jesus Is? – February 26th
Mark 8:27-31 Key Verse: “But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.”(Mark 8:29 CSB) Have you ever looked yourself up on Google or on social media? It’s a slightly vain exercise, but also can be quite interesting depending on what you find. You never know […]
How Clearly Are You Seeing Jesus? – February 25th
Mark 8:22-26 Key Verse: “He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” He looked up and said, “I see people—they look like trees walking.” Again Jesus placed his hands on the man’s […]
When It Seems Like Hope Is Lost – February 22nd
Mark 5:35-43 Key Verse: “Then he took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum” (which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, get up”). 42 Immediately the girl got up and began to walk. (She was twelve years old.) At this, they were utterly astounded.” (Mark 5:41-42 CSB) Jairus and his […]
Going Public – February 21st
Mark 5:30-34 Key Verse: The woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has saved you. Go in peace and be healed from your affliction.” (Mark 5:33-34 CSB) One of the first people I […]
When Life Is Going From Bad to Worse – February 20th
Mark 5:25-34 Key Verse: Now a woman suffering from bleeding for twelve years had endured much under many doctors. She had spent everything she had and was not helped at all. On the contrary, she became worse. Having heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothing. For she said, […]
When You’ve Been Thrown a Curveball – February 19th
Read Daniel 1:1-7 Key Verse: “In the third year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it. The Lord handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels from the house of God.” (Daniel 1:1-2a CSB) Life doesn’t always […]
Tell Your Story – February 17th
Mark 5:1-20 Key Verse: Jesus did not let him but told him, “Go home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.” (Mark 5:19 CSB) One of the reasons why I love watching people get baptized is because they often […]
Does Jesus Really Care? – February 16th
Jonah 3:10-4:4 I have always imagined the prophet Jonah as a young man. I don’t know why, but I can’t see him as an old man with a long white beard. Whether or not he was in fact young or old, he had some lessons to learn. Jonah apparently had a ministry as a prophet […]
Does Jesus Really Care? – February 15th
Mark 4:35-41 Key Verse: A great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher! Don’t you care that we’re going to die?” (Mark 4:37-38 CSB) Nobody likes […]