Read: Mark 8:19-21  “When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up? They said to...

READ: Mark 9:14-16  A crowd comes looking for Jesus.  In that crowd, there are members of the religious leadership.  You know the story;...

Read: Mark 2:1-5  This week’s devotion is a little longer than normal. I hope that you’ll read it all the way through. This is one of the...

Read: Psalm 63:1  “O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and...

Read: Psalm 73  Have you ever wanted to quit?  I have.  Looking back on those times, I realize it’s always because my focus has been...

Read: Mark 10:46-52  We don’t know much of his story. We’re not told where he came from. There aren’t many details provided about his...

Read: Luke 23:38-43  This week, I wanted to share an excerpt from my new book, Divine Redirection . This will be a bit longer than...

Read: Mark 6:1-6 “. . . And, He marveled because of their unbelief.”   Mark 6:6   There are two things that caused Jesus to marvel. One...

Read: Exodus 13:17-18 Last week, we looked at the fact that God knows where you’ve been. He’s aware of it all. Even the things that you...

Read: Exodus 13:17-18  A few weeks ago (May 18th) we looked at the story of the exodus and realized that God took the children of Israel...

Read: Habakkuk 2:4b There seems to be a natural tension between faith and doubt. I’m not sure if you would say this is the case in your...

READ: Mark 9:14-29 Powerless.  There’s no other way to describe the disciples’ condition in Mark 9:14-29. The tragedy is this: A life was...

“And when he [Jesus] had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosever will come after me, let him deny...

Read Exodus 13:17-18 Ernest W. Blandly wrote the hymn, ‘Where He Leads Me I Will Follow’. It’s a song that I’ve known all my life. Or, at...

I want to do something a little different this week. I found this tucked away in my files on my computer. It’s unedited—I want you to...

Read: John 5:1-9 38 years.That’s a long time to wait.That’s how long he had been waiting.Day after day—that was his routine.Always...

Read: Mark 2:14 Follow me.That’s what He said.That’s all He said.Follow me.That’s what he heard.That’s all he heard. Those two words He...

Blurred Vision Mark 8:23b “And when He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him,  He asked him if he saw anything.” It was a journey...

Walking in Darkness “So He (Jesus) took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town.” Mark 8:23a   Have you ever been in...

Don’t Go Back To That Place Mark 8:22-26 The Nature of the Kingdom (8:22-10:52)  section of Mark’s Gospel begins with the strangest...