by Will | Sep 10, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 8:22-26 (NIV): They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do...
by Will | Aug 22, 2014 | Scripture Meditations
Mark 7:31-37 (NIV): Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the...
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...