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Today’s Reading: Mark 6:1-29  Have you ever ordered something from a magazine or online and you thought, “it would be great to have one of those?” The price was right, so you sent off for it and when you opened the package, you immediately felt, “This is not what I expected to get.” Imagine with me John…

Today’s Reading: Mark 5:21-43 (additional reading: Psalm 38:1-22 & Proverbs 10:8-9 ) In today’s reading, people were already waiting for Jesus before He even stepped off the ship. Right away there was an emergency. His first request was from a man, Jarius, a ruler of the synagogue, to go lay hands on his only daughter who was at the…

Today’s Reading: Mark 4:26-5:20 A growing body of medical specialists say, the majority of the chronic patients they treat illnesses started not with a cough or cold but with fear. Fear of losing a job, of old age, of money troubles, or of being exposed. Sometimes the fear is nothing more than superficial anxiety; sometimes it…

Today’s Reading: Mark 3:31-4:25  The following story was published in the Galveston, Texas paper. “It concerned a woman and her parakeet named “Chippie.” It seems that the woman was cleaning Chippie’s birdcage with a canister vacuum cleaner. She was cleaning the bottom of the cage with no attachment on the tube, when the telephone rang. She…

Today’s Reading: Mark 3:7-30  Several years ago, on New Year’s Day, a beautiful float in the Tournament of Roses parade suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of fuel. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With its…

Today’s Reading: Mark 2:13-3:6  One Sunday evening, William Booth was walking in London with his son, Bramwell, who was then 12 or 13 years old. The father surprised the son by taking him to a tavern! The place was crowded with men and women. Some of them were drunk. Some of them were loud. The air…

Today’s Reading: Mark 1:29-2:12 A lot of the problems I face in life, especially the bigger ones, often aren’t solvable on my own. Not only do I need God’s help, but I also need the help of a team of friends. God didn’t create us to go through life alone and try to do everything alone.…

Today’s Reading: Mark 1:1-28 Mark’s Gospel is probably the most 21st Century-compatible Gospel. Mark gives the impression that everyone is always in a hurry – always busy. The word “immediately” appears over 50 times in Mark’s Gospel. Mark tells the story of Jesus being baptised and then he says, “And immediately the Holy Spirit sent him…

Today’s Reading: Matthew 28 Key Verse:  “There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.” Matthew 28:2 “While we may throw stones,God rolls stones. And He rolls the right stones, in the right direction and at the…

Today’s Reading: Matthew 27:32-66 The Bible does not give us many facts about the activities of the centurions. In fact, centurions are referred to only four times in the Bible. Of course, the most famous centurion of all was Cornelius. In the Book of Acts, he was a man of valiant prayer who sought God through…