March 11, 2025
“And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’” (Mark 15:39 ESV) Roman soldiers were expert executioners. They had seen men die in the cruelest of ways. They had witnessed their various human responses to torture and
March 8, 2025
“And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her” (Mark 14:9 ESV). On the Wednesday of Passion Week, Jesus and His disciples took a day of rest a short distance from Jerusalem in a town called Bethany. While
March 6, 2025
“And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box” (Mark 12:41 ESV). Jesus sat near the Temple collection box so that He might watch who was giving and how much they were giving. He did this to teach a lesson to His disciples. As they witnessed the
March 5, 2025
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31 ESV). A Jewish scribe came to Jesus
March 4, 2025
“Have you not read this Scripture…?” (Mark 12:10 ESV). Jesus questioned whether the religious leaders and teachers had read a particular Scripture from Psalm 118 concerning the stone the builders rejected. Even as they rejected Jesus, His question pointed them to the biblical prophecy which predicted their rejection. Shouldn’t biblical evidence have changed their view
March 3, 2025
“And whenever you stand praying…” (Mark 11:25 ESV). In Christ’s teaching on prayer, He assumed that the disciples would stand to pray. I’ve never done an exhaustive study on the body positions of those praying in the Bible, but I can think of several other prayer postures mentioned, like Moses bowing (Ex.34:8), or Daniel kneeling
March 2, 2025
‘And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”’ (Mark 10:51 ESV). Have you ever hesitated to ask God for something specific, thinking He already knows your need? Yet, throughout Scripture, we see God inviting His people
March 1, 2025
“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Mark 10:15 ESV). People were bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed by Him. But the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus noticed, He became indignant and told them to let the little children come
February 27, 2025
‘Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”’ (Mark 9:24 ESV). This was the confession of a father who desperately wanted to believe, but still had doubts. This doesn’t sound like the greatest of confessions, yet Jesus healed the man’s son nonetheless. Jesus still answers the prayers of
February 26, 2025
“Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly” (Mark 8:25 ESV). Jesus healed many that were blind with a single word or touch, yet in this case, the blind man received a second touch. He saw light without focus on