Tell Your Story!
Mark 5:1-20 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 share […]
Does Jesus Really Care?
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 […]
Stand Up for Jesus
John 13:36-38 Key Verse: Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times! (John 13:37-38) Some people have a natural […]
Watch Out For A Hardened Heart!
Mark 3:1-6 Key Verse: “After looking around at them with anger, he was grieved at the hardness of their hearts and told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against him, how they might kill […]
Who’s In Your Circle?
Mark 2:13-17 Key Verse: “Then, passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the toll booth, and he said to him, “Follow me,” and he got up and followed him. While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, […]
Jesus Can Make You Clean!
Mark 1:39-45 Key Verse: “Then a man with leprosy came to him and, on his knees, begged him: “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him. “Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was […]
The Lord Is My Helper
Psalm 94 Key Verse: “Who stands up for me against the wicked? Who takes a stand for me against evildoers? If the Lord had not been my helper, I would soon rest in the silence of death. If I say, “My foot is slipping,” your faithful love will support me, Lord. When I am filled […]
What Are You Counting On?
Philippians 3:1-11 Key Verse: “More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, […]
The New Order
John 13:31-35 Key Verse: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35) It is customary, especially among Jews, to think of the Old Testament as having […]
Who Do You Look Up To?
Philippians 2:19-30 Key Verse: “Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you. For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know […]