Matthew 5: 1-12 A little boy was listening to a long and tedious sermon from the preacher. Suddenly a red light attached to some wires leading to the sound system caught his eye. Tugging his father’s sleeve, he asked, “Daddy, when that red light up there turns green can we go?” Oh, it’s going to…
Category: disciples
For What Is Right
Luke 16: 1-13 During World War II, a program was organized to train volunteers in the skills of emergency first aid. There was a fear that if a city in our nation should be bombed there would not be adequate medical care available for the people who would be wounded. There was one woman in…
Blunt Words from Jesus
Mark 9: 38-50 This is a carrying on of what we heard and shared last Sunday. We’re in the same chapter of Mark that we were. The flow from being the greatest is found in being the last of all to welcoming the forgotten and ignored to whoever is not against us is for us…
We Come Alive Inside
John 6: 63-69 Through this journey in John 6 we’ve come to Jesus’ question to the twelve that remain, “Do you also wish to go away?” The term disciple means learner. For many who followed Jesus, their learning had ended. Whatever encouraged them to follow in the first place was replaced with discouragement, and they…
Psalm 102 in The Message 