Mark 8:1-4 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their own… Read More »
Without Wax
Mark 9:36-37 Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.” Those… Read More »
Choose to Believe
Mark 12:1a Then He began to speak to them in parables Jesus often taught using parables. Why parables? Was it to confuse or was it to force a response? Some commentators on the Bible suggest that Jesus taught using parables in order to confuse the listener. After all, when the disciples asked Him why He… Read More »
God Meets Needs
Exodus 16:17-18 Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need. There was no lack. The glutton had just… Read More »
More Faith More Stretching
Exodus 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” Had you happened upon the Israelites in this journey and asked them if they trusted God,… Read More »
Excuses
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. I think the order of the words, “faith and power” is important here. You see, the fact that faith was required means that the power was not Stephen’s, but that it was from God. It reminds us that… Read More »
Stumble
John 16:1 “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.” Jesus, speaking to His disciples as He leads them from the Upper Room to the Garden of Gethsemane, explains to them the reason why He has told them all the things of the past few chapters, saying that… Read More »
Flow
Leviticus 27:14 ‘And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. This is a chapter about pledging vows to God and thus, a chapter about the heart… Read More »
Faith and Healing
Acts 3:8-10 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God. Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement… Read More »
On Timing
Numbers 9:1-5 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall… Read More »