Today’s Reading: Mark 14:53-72  If I were to ask you to name for me a great American President, you might say George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, you might say Abraham Lincoln. I think most of us would say Abraham Lincoln was a great President. What do we call him? He is often known as honest…

Today’s Reading: Mark 14:22-52 Answer a question for me: How can you go from ‘I will never deny you, I will die for you, to ‘I don’t know him in less than 12 hours?’ That was Peter’s experience on that fateful night. How did it happen? What contributed to such a fall from the one whom…

Today’s Reading: Mark 14:1-21  Verse 15 of our reading today tell us “He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” I really love this promise which Jesus makes. Jesus says, you follow my instructions and you will find everything finished, ready and exactly the way it should be.…

Today’s Reading: Mark 13:14-37  In the late 19th Century, there was a wave of enthusiasm for prophecies predicting the actual date for Christ’s Second Coming. This wave set birth to many of the cults which we see today. Yet Jesus teaching was “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven,…

Today’s Reading: Mark 9:30-10:12  Children are born dreamers. You can watch them act out their dreams when they play and pretend. With a few metal cars, they wage epic races; with a baby doll, they become gentle, caring mothers. The sky is the limit in who they can be, or what they can do. Adults will…

Today’s Reading: Mark 9:1-29  Life is filled with peaks and valleys. A peak is something excellent that happens in your life, something great, something to celebrate and remember. The birth of your child – that is a highpoint in your life. The day you get married, that is a peak. During those moments, it’s easy to…

Today’s Reading: Mark 8:11-38 Don’t you just love to have the time to take a walk in the park and see all of God’s creation in a peaceful setting? There’s just something about it that calms the spirit and helps us to realize just how big and loving our God truly is. One of the things…

Today’s Reading: Mark 7:24-8:10  Whether we want to admit it or not, we all want to be included. We want to be where the happenings are. We want people to call us and let us know what’s going on. Even if we can’t make it, just the fact somebody call me and let me know, is…

Today’s Reading: Mark 7:1-23 (additional reading: Psalm 40:11-17 & Proverbs 10:13-14) The life of holiness is a battleground. It starts in the heart. Henry Ward Beecher said, “The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”  Your heart and everything…

Today’s Reading: Mark 6:30-56  Social experiment meets entertainment: Millions who were glued to their television sets in the USA to watch the final episode of the Fox reality show, “Joe Millionaire”? The premise of the show was that they would take an ordinary guy making a working man’s salary, clean him up, put him up in…