In our last group Bible study a friend, recounted how a woman saw her distressed in a Walmart line, asked to pray with her and at the end of the prayer of comfort for my friend, prayed something like, “because Lord, where two or more are gathered in your name there you are also.” What a
Leprosy is a scourge of a disease and it is deadly! In the Gospel of Mark we see a man with leprosy and the first big thing that sticks out to me is that he knows that he has the inability to cure himself. This man asks Jesus to cure Him. We all have a sort of leprosy…it’s called “
What is your “wilderness”? Is it loneliness? Is just plain being tired? Is it hunger….for food, for love, for acceptance? Has life become a tough prospect, maybe bitter, or seemingly hard to navigate and handle? It is times like these that we often cry out to God. Sometimes, itR
This woman stopped at a red light and her car dies. She frantically turns the key over and over trying to get the car started. The light turns green and the car simply won’t turn over. A man in the car behind get’s angry and starts laying on the horn. Of course her blood begins to boil a
Okay, now let’s really take a close look at the Genius of Jesus! The original audience would not be hearing what Jesus was saying as “some lofty ideas about being nice”, they would have seen what Jesus was saying as strong, tangible ways of subverting evil, of pushing the darkness of the
Again, I find this wisdom of Jesus amazing…the truth-upside down! Jesus tells us next in Matthew 5:41 “If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.” Yeah, right! The first way to deal with cruelty is retaliation, the second is passivity….but Jesus shows a THIR