February 25, 2026
“And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden” (Mark 7:24 ESV). Mark wrote his Gospel to a Gentile audience, frequently highlighting Jesus’ authority over all creation. In this narrative, Jesus
February 21, 2026
“For she said, ‘If I touch even his garments, I will be made well’” (Mark 5:28 ESV). In Mark’s gospel, he recorded that a woman who had suffered twelve years with a discharge of blood believed that if she could only touch Jesus’ garments, she would be made well. Reading this story in today’s One
February 20, 2026
“And he said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground’” (Mark 4:26 ESV). Mark recorded that Jesus taught the crowds in parables, comparing the kingdom of God to a man scattering seed. By this, Jesus described God’s sovereign rule inaugurated through Himself, presently advancing through the gospel
February 17, 2026
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17 ESV). Mark recorded that when the scribes of the Pharisees questioned why Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners, Jesus answered with a vivid metaphor. He compared Himself to
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