The first three gospels record the story about how Jesus fell asleep in the storm-tossed boat while the disciples feared for their lives. “Don’t you care if we die?! Do something!” It occurred to me that after he quelled the squall in the sea, he turned to address the storm in the boat… “You of …
Their need is interrupting our blessing!
As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, …
who can be a disciple?
I was reading Luke 14 this morning and realized that three times in a very short space Jesus specified what would keep a person from being a disciple. He said, “cannot be my disciple”… “cannot be my disciple”… “cannot be my disciple”… I’m not sure of the particular sense of this. Is he saying that …
what jesus said at dinner
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. 2 There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. 3 Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” 4 But they …
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