Do you sometimes feel that as you were going through life, you made some mistakes or bad choices, and that it is so hard to get on the right path that you just might as well throw the towel in? Let me tell you, as I read the Scriptures, as I observe the power of Jesus in other people’s lives and esp
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
I want to renew a journey through the Gospel of Mark. Mark’s Gospel begins with a quote from the prophet Isaiah that was written some 700 before the birth of Jesus. In this quote the prophet Isaiah predicted that John the Baptist and Jesus would come into this world. So, I wonder, how did the
As we wind up Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount concerning divorce, I need to point out that Jesus specializes in mending broken lives–and yes, even those fractured by divorce. Notice God’s attitude toward failure: He never asked how they got into trouble, He knows. He never lea
The Pharisees were teaching that the command against murder, referred JUST to the taking another person’s life. They read this law and not having literally murdered anyone, they felt righteous. Scripture DOES tell us that murderers were subject to judgment (to death) through legal proceedings also d
As we will see in the coming weeks Jesus will say six times, “You have heard that it was said, but I say to you”. What Jesus is telling us is that His teaching goes beyond what the Ten Commandments and the Torah say (The Torah is the name for the Hebrew “Law”). Jesus was set