“‘Experiences of the Holy Spirit not only warms our hearts; it also strengthens our hands and puts our feet in motion. . . In these activities, God is busy acting upon us, placing something into our empty hands, enlivening our cold hearts, enabling us to be transformed in ways that we could never be on our own.'”
Tag: Mark 10
More Stubborn Than Righteous
“The Pharisees were more stubborn than righteous in confronting Jesus, and the disciples were prone to be more stubborn than righteous to defend Jesus from a waste of time in blessing children. WHAT ABOUT US? ARE WE MORE STUBBORN THAN RIGHTEOUS.”
A Cup and A Baptism
Mark 10: 32-40 There are three places and times where Jesus foretells his arrest, death and resurrection in the gospel of Mark. We read and heard the third this morning. Over the last several weeks we’ve heard all three. After Jesus prophesied his death and resurrection a second time in chapter nine, the disciples argued…
More Stubborn than Righteous
Mark 10: 2-16 The Pharisees came to Jesus to test him. Students in school have been tested, challenged, quizzed by their teachers since schools first opened. On one occasion a student burst into his professor’s office and said, “Professor Stigler, I don’t believe I deserve this F you’ve given me.” To which Stigler replied, “I…
Teach Me to Hear & See
I’ve heard sounds of things falling and landing recently. I’d look around to see what fell and find nothing. I’ve prayed recently for the Lord to teach me to see and hear better in the Spirit, particularly in light of a recent dream. Living in our last parsonage and serving my last appointment in the…
To Follow God 2
Back in April, I read about the rich, young man in Mark’s version of his encounter with Jesus (Mark 10) and wrote this reflection in my journal. “Something still had him. He asked what he must do to have eternal life. In Jesus’ day before the resurrection (the young man) was to adhere to the…
A Return
Peter said to him, “We have left everything to follow you!” “I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes,…
Psalm 102 in The Message 