This is part 12 of a multi-part series on the book of Mark. Today, we’re in Mark 12:13-17. The Pharisees are desperate. Religiously pure people, their goal was to obey – and get all God’s people to obey – all 613 OT laws so that they could avoid...
This is part 8 of a multi-part series on the book of Mark. Today, we’re in Mark 6:53-56. Checking In In Mark 6:45, Jesus had his disciples get into the boat ahead of him and aim for Bethsaida; but by 6:53, they had crossed over and made land at Gennesaret. When...
This is part 2 of a multi-part series on the book of Mark. Background Matthew 4:13 says Jesus left Nazareth and settled (or lived) in Capernaum in Galilee. 2:1-12 In this passage Jesus is at home in Capernaum (Mark 2:1), and people are coming to him from all villages...
This is part 1 of a multi-part series on the book of Mark. 1:1 The word gospel was used in the ancient world often for military victories, but the apostles and writers of the Scriptures co-opted it for language of being saved from the enemy’s kingdom into the Kingdom...
This is a guest post by a B4Ter in E Europe. When we moved to a new town in 1995 to start a factory, we met a little girl named Sara. We lived on her street, and she was 11 years old—the middle child of 9 children. Sara’s family was in poverty during the country’s...
This is part 16 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. If Jesus has come to make ALL things new (Revelation 21:5), by extension that means ALL things, right? We often treat “ALL things” as only the human soul. When we launch people overseas just for...
There are few closed doors to doing business. The opportunities are as wide as a man's ingenuity, as deep as his character, and as high as his faith in God.
