Month: July 2025

We’d like to think that if we were one of Jesus’ disciples, we would get it. We would be quicker to understand Christ’s mission and who He is. But in…

About 700 years before Jesus, Isaiah prophesied many things concerning the Messiah. For instance, “Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.…

Have you ever read something in the Gospels and thought, “What was Jesus thinking?” Today’s passage from Mark has one of those moments. On the surface, what Jesus said seems…

It seems that every day there is some new warning or advice on what we should eat. In my lifetime, butter, lard, and tallow have been declared bad and then…

Jesus not only drew those who needed healing and were hungry for His words, but also some critical observers. You know the type—people who observe from the fringe for any…

Mark includes this little blurb following the miraculous feeding of the five thousand and walking on water.  “When they had crossed over, they came to shore at Gennesaret and anchored…

How often do we see and not understand? How often do we experience God’s goodness and fail to grasp the greater truth? The disciples had just witnessed and participated in…

The feeding of the five thousand is one of those pinnacle stories of Jesus. Mark’s account is found in Mark 6:32-43. The crowd followed Jesus and the disciples as they…