Healed to Serve
READ: Mark 1:29 CHALLENGE: Find God and Serve Others (Including your family) Vv29-34 – As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30 Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. 31 So he went to her, took her hand and […]
Power of Truth
READ: Mark 1:21 CHALLENGE: Stand on the Authority of God’s Truth Vv21-22 – They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Something great […]
Drop the Nets
READ: Mark 1:14 CHALLENGE: Walk Your Talk Vv 14-15 – After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” The context is set as “after John was put in prison”. Let’s recall John’s ministry it […]
Surviving the Spiritual Wilderness
READ: Mark 1:12 CHALLENGE: Navigate the Spiritual Wilderness V12-13 – At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, 13 and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. At once! Jesus immediately goes from a beautiful baptism and God the Father’s words of affirmation to […]
Powere in Obedience
READ: Mark 1:9 CHALLENGE: Take Steps of Obedience. Vv9 – At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Why do WE get baptized? It’s because Jesus asked us to. He said to make disciples of all nations, teaching them to obey his commandments, baptizing them in the name […]
CHANGE IS POSSIBLE
READ: Mark 1:4 CHALLENGE: Come Clean WHO IS JOHN THE BAPTIST John was a forerunner of Christ. We know that he was a cousin of Jesus. He was part of a revival preparing humanity to meet Christ and connect to God. It’s interesting when you think about the forerunner as a positive identification as to […]
Amazing Beginnings
READ: Mark 1:1 CHALLENGE: Hope in Christ v1 – The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, Mark is considered the first gospel written of the four. It doesn’t say who wrote it per se, but early church leaders agree that it was written by John Mark and he […]
These Great Things
READ: Mark 2:1 CHALLENGE: Jesus is the Remedy to our Spiritual Problems Mark 2:1 – A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. The original meaning of Capernaum is “village of comfort”. It was on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee and became known […]
Standing Before God
READ: Job 42:2 CHALLENGE: PREPARE TO MEET GOD God, in His speech, references nature and His power over all of it. We cannot tame all the animals, can’t outrun all the animals, can’t whistle for all the animals and expect them to come running to us. Most wild animals would run in the opposite direction. […]
Responsibility of Living
READ: Genesis 1:27-28 CHALLENGE: Live responsibly in God’s blessing Genesis 1:27-28 – So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in […]