by Will | Aug 19, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 7:24-30 (NIV): Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an...
by Will | Jul 31, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 7:9-13 (NIV): And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be...
by Will | Jul 30, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 7:6-8 (NIV): (Jesus) replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught...
by Will | Jul 26, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 7:1-5 (NIV): The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were “unclean,” that is, unwashed. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat...
by Will | Jul 24, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 6:53-56 (NIV): When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there. As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever...
by Will | Jul 23, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 6:45-52 (NIV): Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he...